In this video I show you how real time gait retraining can change how a person runs immediately in the same session. This will allow a runner to continue training while we are also performing strengthening, mobility and manual treatment during the course of care. If we provide gait retraining initially we can keep …
Diastasis Rectus The Rectus Abdominis is your “six pack”. It’s the big front muscle of your abdomen. When you are pregnant, as your baby (or babies!) grow, your uterus gets bigger and eventually pushes out against the rectus abdominis muscle. Sometimes, that pressure is so strong, the uterus is so large and/or the abdominals are not …
Your shoe lacing can have a huge impact on how you feel and perform while running. Check out the January / February issue of Shape Magazine to read my suggestions:
Do you feel like your black toenails are a necessary part of running? They don’t need to be! There are many different causes for black toenails – some are due to your strength, mobility, flexibility and running gait, and some causes are due to how your shoes fit. Here we will go over the most …
Five Minutes to Injury Prevention and a Faster Run Tomorrow: The Dynamic Cool Down You should know by now that a dynamic warm up is essential to being able to train most effectively, efficiently and to stay injury free. Watch the Dynamic Warm Up video here. The other piece to your runs includes a …
Most of us dislike running hills. That’s probably because we don’t know how to run hills or we don’t run them often enough! There are a few guarantees from running hills: you will get more comfortable and faster on them over time and you will be come a better runner from doing them! Incorporating hill …
The long run can be a daunting and confusing, however absolutely necessary, task in your preparation for a half marathon or full marathon. The purpose of this article is to take some of the confusion out of planning your long run pace (and to help you put faith in your coach when they tell you …
REFINED RUN CASE STUDY First marathon saved after severe ankle pain and swelling appeared during a routine marathon training run, with no obvious Incident. The Phantom Injury: Rachele, a 23 year old female runner was training for her first marathon and after a snowy and icy 12 mile long run, she started having foot pain …
Here’s a cheat sheet that you can print out or save for your continued use on all of the important components of your race day taper plan. See the article on tapering here, for more details, as well. Refined Run Taper handout Enjoy! – Kari