5 IT Band Stretches for Runners Based on Yoga
If there is one injury that plagues my athletes and running friends more than any other it’s the IT Band. I’ve talked here about the specific things I do to keep mine happy since a […]
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 claims…but when it comes to runner’s knee, I’m absolutely not yanking your […]
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 first think you can run through it because hey sometimes […]
Resistance Band Workout For Hip Strengthening 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, like all the time, constantly. […]
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 ever so discretely tucked up […]
Resolve Tight IT Band Pain for Good: What Causes it, exercises and 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. This was in the […]
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. In fact, I’ve written a whole 80 page e-Book on resolving […]
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 pride to the side if I […]
How to Prevent Knee Pain When Running or Cycling {Runner’s Knee 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 impact to save your knees”. Ahh if I had […]
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 limits, avoiding misplaced man hole covers)? Well no…so when […]
