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!
Lingering Hamstring Strain? The Reason.
Contrary to popular belief...stretching, foam rolling, and resting your hamstring strain is NOT your savior. Going ham and jumping immediately into RDLs: *might* not feel good either. I recently had a runner reach out who I worked with before in the past(HI HEATHER!!)...and her dumb-dumb hamstring strain is still being a butt a year-ish later. This is no shame on her. This isn't because my exercises "didn't work". This is to show you how fickle hamstrings can be. And how nuanced and multifactorial running injuries can be. So naturally, I went over board and did any entire course on hamstring rehab.And what I learned was fascinating. Obviously I go in depth in this week's blog post about:
But probably the MOST HUMBLING thing I learned that YOU NEED TO HEAR, especially if you're a runner whose always fighting your hammies:You can make GREAT progress in 2 weeks. Even better in 6 weeks. And then if you STOP and say "good enough"... you begin to lose all your hard earned progress in 14 days.yeah, that fast. Which makes a lot of sense why you may feel you're finally over the hump and back to running at the intensity and volume you want to, but get sidelined again, Take this as another lesson in consistency. And just how much our bodies need strength training on the regular. So if you're looking for a 15 minute hamstring circuit that you can do 1-2x a week to feel your hammies happy, healthy, and speedy, let's check out my blog together. Because you've got races to run
Dare to Train Differently, Marie Whitt, PT, DPT //@dr.whitt.fit P.S. Your hamstring strain lingers for a reason: You have to fix it the RIGHT WAY. Check it out in this week's blog post! 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!
This is basically the equivalent of running-research-gossip Read: NERD ALERT. (I'm just gonna own it at this point because you are my people.) I've waited a hot minute to deep-dive into this particular research article. And the whole time I've been reading and re-reading it, the IG algorithm has still not put it into my feed. So if you have no idea what I'm talking about, here's the title: "How much running is too much? Identifying high-risk running sessions in a 5200-person cohort study."...
If you've ever struggled with incessant soreness and deep dull ache in the front of your hip that won't go away, you've probably scrolled to the end of the internet trying to find some kind of relief. *cue the evil hip hook* If you don't know what that is, you literally lie down on your belly and impale yourself and your hip flexor over a metal hook. I wish I was kidding. If you're needing THAT kind of "release", it's REALLY time to take a deeper look into WHY your hip flexor is clamping down...
If I said I didn't need these exercises too... I'd be lying. Somewhere, somehow I've recently picked up a funky ankle ache. Yes, even PT's get "how did I do this?" niggles. And I know a lot of runners are feeling the same thing as you ramp up for fall races, entering peak mileage, or are in the thick of peak marathon mileage. And you might be saying things like: "My right ankle has this nagging tenderness/soreness my past couple runs. What do I do about it?" The most common not-so-great...