William (Gill) Schumaker
Coach Gill Schumaker – RRCA certified running coach, ACE certified personal trainer, certified Chi Running Instructor & SEASONED endurance runner.
One of my goals as a running coach was to help runners to avoid injury. Year after year I was always a failure. Sure my runners got faster and they won their age group in road race of all distances, which most of the time was their only goal. I was still a failure because sooner or later most of the runners with a time-based goal got injured.
It wasn’t until I receive a book from another coach that I found a way to become a really successful coach. That book was Chi Running written by Danny Dreyer. I studied and I practiced and soon I shared it with everyone I knew that was a runner. Teaching and coaching others in turn made me a better runner, so I became a certified Chi Running/Chi Walking instructor. Now I’m reaching my goal to help runners avoid injury and helping more people to become runners that thought they couldn’t run because it was painful. I now have the best job I could possibly have.
But what made me write this success story is what I really owe to Chi Running and Danny Dreyer. One Labor Day I fell down the stairs on my deck, I don’t really know why, just lost my balance and fell. The fall ended up breaking my leg in two places and also did some damage to my knee. Before the surgery I ask the surgeon how soon will it be before I can run. His comment was, “never, you will never be able to run again. A couple of weeks later I went to see the surgeon and asked the same question again, he answered, “why are you asking this again I told you that you will never run again. You now have a six-inch metal plate in your leg how can you possibly run and you will probably have pain just to be able to walk.”
But I knew I had a secret weapon, Chi Running and Chi Walking.
Sure it wasn’t easy, but I wanted to run and I wanted to coach again. I started coaching again in late January and teaching the Chi Running techniques. I didn’t run very much, just enough to be able to teach. By June I was running up to two miles, walking a few minutes and running longer each time I went out to run. If it weren’t for the form focuses of Chi Running, especially the lower body focus of not using your legs for propulsion, I would not be running today. This method has given me back my running, my coaching career and the confidence that I really can run forever.
The Chi Running way is really the “no pain way”, thank you Danny Dreyer
-Gill
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Wilmette Community Recreation Center 3000 Glenview Rd. |
Wilmette 60091
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Every Saturday |
7:00 - 8:00 AM |
Free |
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Conditioning Boot Camp For Runners
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Wilmette Community Recreation Center 3000 Glenview Rd. |
Wilmette 60091
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A group exercise class. Come ready to workout and sweat. The workout features a warm-up, strength, core and cardio exercise session and a cool-down stretching period with Q & A. I use Body Weight Exercises that you can do at home or on the road when traveling! I have done the countless hours or research and trial and error and I know how to how to help people lose ugly, unwanted body fat fast.
Instead of the traditional group exercise class with the instructor doing the exercise in front of the class. I’m different; first I teach the exercise and then use a soundtrack - interval timer set to music. The soundtrack will tell you when to start, when to stop, and even provide countdowns and updates to keep you focused on the task at hand. What I do is what I do best, I coach you. I don’t have to watch the clock and you and I don’t have to count reps. Every one does their own workout. The exercises are all progressive from easy to very hard and you progress at your own rate, not someone else’s.
You will train like a sprinter and do Functional Core Strength exercises that train the movements of running. Ever seen a quality sprinter with a beer belly? A paunch? A spare tire? A sagging gut? Not I.
Sprinters have some of the strongest cores of any athlete out there. It’s a necessity to be successful in their sport… a strong core keeps a sprinter’s torso from moving side to side when they run - which would slow them down.
So how do sprinters get these abs? Partly from doing what they do best - sprinting. But also from certain specific core exercises and workout patterns that are a large part of their training. This class contains the best of the best of these exercises.
Now, you may never get the mid-section of an elite sprinter, but you can burn fat and get leaner, stronger and more defined around the middle. And, using these routines, you can do it in a total of only a few minutes, two - three times a week in this Core Strength for runners Class.
Link for More Info:
http://www.eteamz.com/runningwithcoachgill/news/index.cfm?cat=774698
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Wilmette Community Recreation Center 3000 Glenview Rd. Wilmette IL 60091 |
Chicago
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5/19/2012 |
8:30 am -12:30 pm |
Attention: Time Sensitive Offer! Early Bird Fee: $125 Three days before the event, at midnight, the |
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Half-Day Chi Running Essentials Workshop (W0529)
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Wilmette Community Recreation Center 3000 Glenview Rd. Wilmette IL 60091 |
Chicago
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5/19/2012 |
8:30 am -12:30 pm |
Attention: Time Sensitive Offer! Early Bird Fee: $125 Three days before the event, at midnight, the |
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Bonus #1: All registrants are invited to attend, at no additional cost, a one-hour group exercise class designed to help you get stronger, stay healthy and run faster. The class starts at 7:00 AM before the workshop.
Bonus #2: After you have had time to practice come back and do another basic ChiRunning workshop, it’s a free offer. There are other workshops scheduled, same place same time. Just let me know that you will be there by sending me an email. Yes! You can come back and give others inspiration and we will give you more back!
Bonus #3: Purchasing the ChiRunning Workshop comes with a no-questions-asked, 1 YEAR money-back guarantee! If ChiRunning doesn’t work for you, all you need to do is send me an email within the next 365 DAYS and I’ll promptly refund 100% of your purchase price, no questions asked. That’s 1 FULL Year to put ChiRunning to the test - all the risk is on me.
Link for More Info:
http://www.runningwithcoachgill.com
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