What if the biggest factor influencing your race-day performance isn’t your mileage, your pace, or your nutrition… but your mind? 🧠🔥 In today’s episode, we break down the overlooked connection between mental preparation and injury prevention, especially as runners gear up for major events like the Chicago Marathon. You’ll learn: ✅ Why mental load and stress directly affect muscle tension, coordination, and pacing ✅ How distraction and anxiety increase the risk of mid-race injury ✅...
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What if the biggest factor influencing your race-day performance isn’t your mileage, your pace, or your nutrition… but your mind? 🧠🔥 In today’s episode, we break down the overlooked connection between mental preparation and injury prevention, especially as runners gear up for major events like the Chicago Marathon. You’ll learn: ✅ Why mental load and stress directly affect muscle tension, coordination, and pacing ✅ How distraction and anxiety increase the risk of mid-race injury ✅...
27 Injury Prevention Tips & Tricks for Runners: Core Training
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27 Injury Prevention Tips & Tricks for Runners: Core Training
Core training - Enhancing core stability through exercise is common to musculoskeletal injury prevention programs. Definitive evidence demonstrating an association between core instability and injury is lacking; however, multifaceted prevention programs including core stabilization exercises appear to be effective at reducing lower extremity injury rates. By strengthening the core a majority of aches, pains and/or stiffness can be relieved as it does reset your muscle firing patterns ...
Fix My Pain Naturally, Ask Dr. Heather
What if the biggest factor influencing your race-day performance isn’t your mileage, your pace, or your nutrition… but your mind? 🧠🔥 In today’s episode, we break down the overlooked connection between mental preparation and injury prevention, especially as runners gear up for major events like the Chicago Marathon. You’ll learn: ✅ Why mental load and stress directly affect muscle tension, coordination, and pacing ✅ How distraction and anxiety increase the risk of mid-race injury ✅...
