Chronic running injuries are not an act of god. These can be avoided if we get some fundamentals sorted and build a healthy resilient body. Maybe controversially, most acute running injuries are also not an act of god. Perhaps more accurately the resulting injuries from acute accidents are in part dependant on the resilience of the body.
The fundamentals that need to apply for you to be optimal are well considered movement and training habits, nourishing nutritional habits and first class sleep habits.
Yes, I hear you, there are lots of people who have pretty average nutritional habits and pretty poor sleep habits and curious training habits and still perform pretty well. I suggest we look at the majority rather than the outliers.
Beyond the fundamentals, I maintain that we need to have adequate and appropriate strength to perform the task(s) at hand. This serves as your resistance to fatigue and in turn your resistance to system overload and ultimately dysfunction.
We need to have a fantastic flexibility of the soft tissues. That's the muscles, tendons and the ligaments. Hand in hand with the mobility we need marvellous mobility of the joints and the entire structure. The combination of the flexibility and the mobility mean the body is going to be best equipped to move in congruence with its design.
Then we also need to have superb movement habits. If we're thinking about running that's obviously running technique, but it's also the way you move in general day-to-day life, work and the things you spend considerable time doing. The way that you walk, the way that you stand the way that you sit at your desk, the way you look at your phone and laptop is going to have a huge effect on everything.
The tail that wags the dog is that we need to have some management of our psychology. I’m yet to meet a person who has a physical manifestation of something without a psychological component. That's a confronting statement for a lot of people, though I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that anyone who doesn't believe that they have self-limiting beliefs or an ego, is lying to themself.
How you go about nailing the fundamentals of sleep, nutrition, training and then building a resilient body with flexibility, mobility, technique, strength and psychology is at the very least a different discussion.
We live in a society where most of the time people only think about their nutrition, sleep, training, flexibility, mobility, technique, strength and psychology when there's a problem. Unfortunately a reactive approach to training and life.
My encouragement to you is to get on the front foot. Be proactive and nail the fundamentals. Well considered movement and training habits, nourishing nutritional habits and first class sleep habits. These will support you being able to become better. Then, also proactively develop flexibility, mobility, technique, strength and psychology.
Yes, I hear you, there are lots of people who have pretty average nutritional habits and pretty poor sleep habits and curious training habits and still perform pretty well. I suggest we look at the majority rather than the outliers.
Beyond the fundamentals, I maintain that we need to have adequate and appropriate strength to perform the task(s) at hand. This serves as your resistance to fatigue and in turn your resistance to system overload and ultimately dysfunction.
We need to have a fantastic flexibility of the soft tissues. That's the muscles, tendons and the ligaments. Hand in hand with the mobility we need marvellous mobility of the joints and the entire structure. The combination of the flexibility and the mobility mean the body is going to be best equipped to move in congruence with its design.
Then we also need to have superb movement habits. If we're thinking about running that's obviously running technique, but it's also the way you move in general day-to-day life, work and the things you spend considerable time doing. The way that you walk, the way that you stand the way that you sit at your desk, the way you look at your phone and laptop is going to have a huge effect on everything.
The tail that wags the dog is that we need to have some management of our psychology. I’m yet to meet a person who has a physical manifestation of something without a psychological component. That's a confronting statement for a lot of people, though I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that anyone who doesn't believe that they have self-limiting beliefs or an ego, is lying to themself.
How you go about nailing the fundamentals of sleep, nutrition, training and then building a resilient body with flexibility, mobility, technique, strength and psychology is at the very least a different discussion.
We live in a society where most of the time people only think about their nutrition, sleep, training, flexibility, mobility, technique, strength and psychology when there's a problem. Unfortunately a reactive approach to training and life.
My encouragement to you is to get on the front foot. Be proactive and nail the fundamentals. Well considered movement and training habits, nourishing nutritional habits and first class sleep habits. These will support you being able to become better. Then, also proactively develop flexibility, mobility, technique, strength and psychology.
