Focus on what you can do today to recover

When you are sick or injured, you may feel like you are helpless.

You think you can’t run.

You think you can’t build your running body.

You think that you can’t do anything to help the situation.

If you’re injured, you’re probably sitting around thinking, “Well, I can’t do anything. I can’t run. I can’t go to the gym. I can’t do anything.”

But that’s not true. You just have to think about what can you do today. You have to focus on what you can do today.

Today on the Doc On the Run Podcast, we’re talking about how you should focus on what you can do today if you want to recover from an over-training injury.

Angry about lost time from running in a fracture boot

Fracture walking boots are over-prescribed and often worn for way too long by many injured runners.

Nobody who’s a runner wants to be injured or wants to have to wear a fracture walking boot.

It’s really easy to get angry and resentful about feeling like you wasted time in a fracture walking boot while you are recovering.

You be upset just because you’ve been sitting around recovering.

You may be angry because you feel like a boot is the standard routine and deserve something better.

Maybe you think your doctor hasn’t been proactive enough and you haven’t been able to get back to running fast enough.

Today on the Doc On The Run podcast, we’re talking about being angry about having lost time from running in a fracture walking boot.

#248 Every step is a win when recovering from running injury

If you’re a runner and you get injured, you’re certainly going to be bummed out, and it is really, really easy to get frustrated.

In my experience when working with injured runners when I do consultation calls, is that most runners beat themselves up unnecessarily.

You have to look for every possible opportunity to view something as a success, as a victory, as a win when you are recovering from an injury and trying to get back to running.

You have to look for the wins when you’re training and you’re working toward a goal.

The same holds true for when you have a running injury.

Today on the Doc On The Run podcast, we’re talking about why every step is a win when recovering from running injury.

#232 Most runners lack the discipline required for minimalist running shoes

No one trains for long distance events, nor successfully completes a long distance event without a great deal of discipline.

Most experienced runners can run a long way, regardless of footwear. And it is mostly highly experienced runners to start investigating the idea of barefoot running or running in minimalist running shoes.

There are many reasons minimalist running shoes appeal to endurance runners.

But running in minimalist running shoes requires an advanced level of discipline.

Today on the Doc On The Run Podcast we’re talking about why most runners lack the discipline required for minimalist running shoes

#207 There is no healing without risk.

Today on the Doc On The Run podcast, we’re talking about how there’s is no healing for a runner without risk. There is no success without work.  There is no love without commitment.  And there can be no healing from a running injury without risk.  Many years ago I remember somebody telling me that you […]

#152 Why Injured Runners get Depressed and Dynamic Running Therapy with William Pullen

Dr. Segler: Today on the Doc On the Run Podcast we are talking with William Pullen the author of Running With Mindfulness about how Dynamic Running Therapy can improve low mood decrease anxiety decrease stress and help depression.  If you move, you’ll feel better, if you run, you’ll feel better.   If you’re listening to this […]