Only 2 Questions Needed to Run a Marathon with a Metatarsal Stress Fracture

If you’re training for a marathon and develop a metatarsal stress fracture, you may not need a long
list of restrictions. In this episode, we discuss the two critical questions that determine whether you
can maintain fitness and potentially compete without making the stress fracture worse.

#1007 Suffering solution is different with running injury

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 […]

#445 Is Muscle Atrophy Reversible?

If you’re a runner with a running injury, you need to listen up.

The biggest problem with running injuries is not that you have a broken bone, not that you have a sprained ankle, and not that you have Achilles tendinitis.

The biggest problem is that you’re going to lose your running fitness while you recover from that injury, if you’re not really proactive.

Today on the Doc On The Run Podcast, we’re talking about muscle atrophy, and whether or not it’s reversible.