Running Injury Truth #5

A Body at Rest Tends to Remain at Rest. Runners cannot defy the Laws of Physics, even if you don’t believe in them. If you think you can defy them, just think about what will happen if you jump off a tall building. Your disbelief in gravity will not save you. Newton's First Law of Motion states that a body at rest will remain at rest unless an outside force acts on it. This Law applies to runner’s who are over-resting while healing. Loss of fitness, weakness and atrophy set in. The longer you wait the worse it gets. Time to get off the couch. Take one step now… Watch the view and check out the 12 Steps to Rapid Running Injury Recovery. https://www.docontherun.com/12steps/

Running Injury Truth #4

RUNNING INJURY TRUTH #4: 

There are 3 Ingredients required for rapid recovery from running injury

If you want to get back to running as quickly as possible you need 3 essential ingredients:

1. Recovery - of the injured piece of tissue.

2. Strength - of everything else that supports and protects that one injured piece of tissue.

3. Balance - (I’m not talking moderation here) You need to get your running form back beginning with balance. Stronger neuromuscular connections are like free speed. With better balance, you can run farther with less fatigue, less fatigue means better form. Better form means longer distances before something gets overloaded. 

When something is weaker because it is still recovering, this approach is all the more important. 

NEWSFLASH: you can work on recovery, building strength, and better balance at any stage of injury. 

Get moving now!

Check out the 12 Steps to Recovering form a Running Injury 

https://www.docontherun.com/12steps/

Running Injury Truth #2

here 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.

There are 2 Groups:

Those who beat themselves up for doing the wrong thing.

Those who are simply afraid and get immobilized by uncertainty.

Either way: FORGIVE OURSELF and GET OVER IT.

You won’t get back to running sitting around get weaker. Accept that you are a runner and you got a running injury.Try to figure out what you did wrong…what you can differently now…..and get moving….don’t let your injury keep you on the couch!

Running Injury Truth #1: The advice to rest is a lie.

RUNNING INJURY TRUTH #1: The advice to rest is a lie.

The premise is that your crazy physical activity is the problem. 

The promise is that you will heal if you simply sit still..long enough.

The hope is that recovery will magically take place through sacrifice.

Kinda like a perverse form of penance for your exercise sins…crazy. 

But a prescription of 100% Rest only guarantees 100% loss of fitness. 

Check out the 12 Steps to Recovering form a Running Injury 

doc on there run . com / 12 steps