Resolve Tight IT Band Pain | Causes, Exercises, Stretches
8 miles in to my 16 mile run a slight burning around my knee turned in to a stabbing pain, that had me sitting on the sidewalk gulping back the tears. …
IT Band Recovery
How to Truly Resolve Runners Knee by Fixing Knee Drift
If it sounds to good to be true, we’re supposed to believe it’s total hogwash. Plus, I’m a skeptic in general of big …
Best Running Injury Prevention Exercises
Nearly every runner has been through an injury, which makes the average non-runner believe that you simply can’t enjoy this sport without …
Why I Stopped Foam Rolling My IT Band
IT Band Syndrome. Sounds like a geek squad that couldn’t quite get their act together, but really it’s the bane of many runners existence. …
Glute Activation Exercises: Don’t Be a Lazy Ass
It’s true, runners are notoriously lazy asses. It’s not our fault, it’s our lifestyle. Hours of sitting for work cause our glutes to …
Hip Stability Exercises to prevent ITBS and Runner’s Knee
Every year, I receive a lot of questions about recovering from IT Band Syndrome and I understand why…it sucks! There is the moment when you …
Resistance Band Workout For Hips And Glute Activation
You might think that I work only two parts of my body: my legs during running and my hips during PT because well that’s what I talk about a LOT, …
Maximize Recovery with Electrical Nerve Stimulation
“Let me know when you start to feel this.” I heard a muffled voice above me say, as I lay with my face in a padded cradle and my shorts …
Pride and Injury: 12 Lessons in Injury Prevention
As with most lessons that are learned the hard way, this one stung. It was a wake up call to my invincibility and eventually required me to put my …
How to Prevent Cycling Knee Pain | Recovery Exercises
Cycling is supposed to save your knees right?? People have been preaching that sermon to me since I started running: “you need to do something lower …
You’re Injured. 7 Step Program for Mental Recovery
Is it possible to run without injury, absolutely. Do most of us do all the things that would require (daily PT, stretching, never pushing beyond our …
Exercises to Correct Tight Hip Flexors: Undoing Effects of Sitting All Day
Stop me if you’ve heard this story before: athlete wakes up early to go for a run before work, doesn’t have time to stretch after, then proceeds to …
Cortisone Shots in Knee: What You Need to Know First
If there ever were a magic bullet for recovering from an injury cortisone shots might be it. Of course like all magic, it requires distraction from …
IT Band Recovery Exercises That Work Long Term
If you’ve been around these parts for awhile, you’re probably aware that I’m obsessed with helping people run injury free. …
How to Improve Hip Extension and Mobility for Runners
I’m the first to admit that because I started running as supple 20 year old, I didn’t spend much time thinking about anything related to …