For the past three decades, Csaba has been a successful coach to world-class athletes and professional sports teams, Wall Street business leaders and Fortune 500 companies, severely injured individuals, and thousands of people aiming to better their lives.
In his 38 years of running and 28 year coaching career, Csaba has come full circle with running.
He went from being a champion runner to someone who hated running. He despised, even warned against the pitfalls of sport.
Eventually, after doing lot of research, he learned about the importance of running from ancient hunter gatherer societies and finally discovered how to run in a way that actually helped people to heal, get in shape, and while practicing running, even develop a social, work, and life balance.
When Csaba was 8 years old he started to run, as part of standard regimen that every Eastern European athlete went through, regardless of one’s main sport.
Csaba developed pretty decent capabilities, without ever focusing on running. As a youngster he became one of the top three in his school’s sprinting championship. At age 15, he won the 800 meter running championship. He ran half-Marathons on the side, while focusing on canoeing.
Even though he was a good runner, he grew to hate running as a teenager.
As a coach, he did a lot of research to find out what he was doing wrong. He soon realized that people are in need to run the way human beings were designed to run, and not how the modern world dictates us to run: faster, quicker and better.
Instead, we are meant to run the way persistence hunting ancestors run.
Persistence hunting was a very successful hunting method during which humans used their superior endurance capabilities and ran down kudus, elands and other large antelopes until the animal collapsed in sheer physical exhaustion.
This was the human type of running, Persistence Barefoot Running!
Csaba’s first canoeing coach, Robert Weiss, always said “running is the base of all sports”. He was right.