The half-ass boot routine is no good. Slow improvement with unnecessarily increased risk of atrophy, weakness, stiffness, loss of neuromuscular connections, and destruction of your running form. Your running form, your strength, your flexibility, all protect you from another overtraining injury.
When you wear a fracture walking boot for a long time inconsistently, or a long time walking on it, you’re going to get more of those bad things.
The other thing that is good, the sort of polar opposite of that, is a half-ass weight routine.
Whaat is that? And more importantly, why would that be good?
Today on the doc on the Run podcast, we’re talking about half boot versus half weight when you’re recovering from a running injury.
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Runners glorify the suffering needed to keep moving in spite of pain. And the payoff is almost always increased fitness, and improvements and mental fortitude for endurance. Think about the works we use to describe running and training for endurance events: Enter the Pain Cave! Glorious suffering. Embrace the suck. Surviving a work out. The […]
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It may sound dramatic, but in reference to doctors casually telling runners they just cannot run a race (when maybe the runner could run), or worse…they may never run again, Carrie says, “These doctors have no idea the trauma they are causing to the runner by saying that.” Carrie co-authored “Rebound: Train Your Mind […]
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Today on the Doc On The Run Podcast, we’re talking about why you should convert your off-season training program to your recovery program when you have a stress fracture. Just this morning I was on a coaching call with a runner who is recovering from a stress fracture and stress fractures are very […]
View Details »When you get an overtraining injury from running, it’s not because you did too much, because you were too strong or too motivated.
You got injured because you were too weak.
You were too weak to sustain the stress applied to that piece of tissue, that one injured piece of tissue that got injured when you did one workout.
That’s what really happened.
If you get injured, you have to understand how to correct that specific weakness.
Understanding this is crucial.
Overtraining injuries in runners are actually caused by weakness.
And that’s what we’re talking about today in the Doc On The Run Podcast.
View Details »If you want to run as soon as possible after an injury, you may need aggressive treatment like immobilization in a cast or a fracture walking boot.
When I lecture at medical conferences, I talk a lot about why I believe fracture walking boots are over-prescribed, overused and often used way too long in many injured runners for common overtraining injuries.
In talking to another runner the other day, I was thinking about the specific goals that are in conflict between you and your doctor.
Today on the Doc On The Run Podcast we’re talking about doctor’s goals when they give you a fracture walking boot versus your goals when you’re wearing a fracture walking boot and you’re a runner.
View Details »If you rest long enough any overtraining injury will eventually calm down.
But if you rest too long, you will lose all of your running fitness.
The difference between elite athlete who get better fast, and average runners who take forever to recover are the daily activities they focus on while recovering.
Today, on the Doc on the Run podcast, we’re talking about the two most important questions for recovering runners.
I was just doing a second opinion consultation with a runner who was really stressed out.
She said, “I’m going to lose all my aerobic fitness. I’m going to get weaker. I’m going to get stiff or my running form is going to be terrible!”
There are some mental tricks you can use that will be very helpful anytime you get an over-training injury, whether it’s a stress fracture, Achilles tendonitis, or any injury.
If a doctor tells you, you have to rest and sit still, that can be stressful. But all runners have the tools to navigate it, whether you have ever been injured or not.
Today on the Doc On The Run Podcast, we’re talking about how you should think of your over-training injury recovery, as an extended rest day.
There is NO over-training. There is ONLY under-recovering. You did not run too much. You made a mistake in the order of your workouts or the intensity of one workout or in the strategy you used to rebuild tissue.
That is EXACTLY the same mistake runners make when they get injured again after “healing” an injury.
Today on the Doc On The Run podcast, we’re taking about running injuries can happen to everyone.
I was just on a telemedicine call with a recovering runner. He asked me about different forms of training that he could do to maintain his running fitness, while he fully healed the injury.
He asked a question I get all the time, “Is cycling really helpful or not?”
Well, the short answer is yes, it is very helpful for several reasons.
Today on the Doc On The Run podcast, we’re talking about whether or not cycling will help maintain your running fitness while you’re injured and recovering.
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