Hey runner, I'm Marie, @drwhittfit. Never feel like all your hard work was all for nothing ever again. I coach strength training for runners, helping YOU identify your weaknesses and fix them with strength exercises designed for runners to help you build the exact strength you need to run your best, strongest, fastest, most injury-resilient race yet. Subscribe and come join the Running Fit Fam!
Hamstring Pain & Soreness Sucks. So fix it.
Not gonna lie...I love me a quick PT-hack. Meaning the exercises that "no really, instantly, work like magic" because your body is freaking amazing. And to be honest:these become some of the most IMPORTANT exercises when you're injured, fighting a niggle, or are just so darn sore. I'm not talking about "this one exercise will instantly make you PR!" Running gods, I wish it was that easy... I'm referring to the exercises that take advantage of the cool way your muscles interact with each other in order to put you in charge and help you decrease or even eliminate pain. Because hamstring soreness, strains, discomfort, tightness etc can be nightmare. And since a lot of runners are post-marathon right now and are either recovering or starting a slow rebuild, it can be soul-crushing to have a hamstring niggle bite you in the butt out of nowhere. So because that sucks...let's just NOT. This week I wanted to give you very unique circuits for the runner whose currently fighting a cranky, tight hamstring or the runner who can never seem to escape repeat hamstring injuries.Because here's 2 things I'm going to tell you NOT TO DO:
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Ready to hop into this week's circuits?I've got 2 exercise to help you eliminate pain and soreness and 2 exercises to strengthen your hamstrings and make them injury proof so you can get back to that mileage rebuild.
See you over there! Dare to Train Differently, Marie Whitt, PT, DPT //@dr.whitt.fit P.S. TL;DR: hamstring soreness and pain is dumb. So I gave you 2 exercises to get out of pain and 2 exercises to make sure it doesn't happen again so you can get back to running. Go check 'em out! Looking for MORE ways to work together?
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Dr. Marie Whitt / Strength Coach and Physical Therapist for Runners
Hey runner, I'm Marie, @drwhittfit. Never feel like all your hard work was all for nothing ever again. I coach strength training for runners, helping YOU identify your weaknesses and fix them with strength exercises designed for runners to help you build the exact strength you need to run your best, strongest, fastest, most injury-resilient race yet. Subscribe and come join the Running Fit Fam!
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