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- 0:00You're listening to the Sports Therapy Association podcast, putting evidence
- 0:04back into soft tissue therapy.
- 0:07Music.
- 0:17Hey people, how are you doing? We are live. Welcome to what is episode 192 of
- 0:23the Sports Therapy Association podcast. podcast.
- 0:25My name is Matt Phillips, creator of OneChatLive.com.
- 0:28And as always, this episode is being recorded on a Tuesday at eight o'clock
- 0:33on the Sports Therapy Association YouTube channel and the Sports Therapy Association
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- 0:40So if you are listening to the podcast recording and you like the idea of joining
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- 0:49Normally on a Tuesday, day we've got some coming up nine o'clock so
- 0:52do keep an eye out on social media uk underscore sta
- 0:55but that's how you can join us live and be part of
- 0:58the live lounge and ask our guests questions face to
- 1:01face as it was some questions emailed into me matt at
- 1:04the sta.co.uk and or ask answer questions
- 1:08and the live lounge put to people who have chosen to join
- 1:10us live in this episode of ask us anything we're
- 1:13going to start a new series there'll be about four or five of them hopefully if
- 1:16it proves popular where we are going to focus on
- 1:19a particular population of a sport so this episode
- 1:22is therapy for runners which as the title suggests
- 1:25means the panel are going to be asking questions on working with running clients
- 1:28next month will be therapy for team sports on the first tuesday of the month
- 1:32and then in future months we plan to have therapy for swimmers and we're also
- 1:37going to have therapy for cyclists and if you're interested in another sport
- 1:41which you think could could fill a whole episode then feel free to email that
- 1:44suggestion to me matt at the sta.co.uk.
- 1:47So that's as much as i'm going to do now i'm very keen to get the
- 1:50panel up we've got a fantastic selection of working therapists who
- 1:53all work with runners in one form or another if you
- 1:56are in the live lounge and you've decided to join us live then thank
- 1:59you very much when you do ask a question your question will come
- 2:01up onto the screen so i can bring it there if
- 2:04you do find that your identity is hidden it's just
- 2:07because you haven't clicked on the facebook group security link which is basically
- 2:12go to b.live forward slash comments hyphen issue and that should be in the in
- 2:17the notes on the facebook group if you need it that just gives facebook permission
- 2:20to use your logo if you bring a question up but i'll remind you in case i see
- 2:23any facebook users come up and without their identity,
- 2:27right then so no particular order i shall now go ahead and we will start ask
- 2:31us anything therapy for runners with the sta panel.
- 2:35Music.
- 2:37You're listening to the sports therapy association podcast evidence back soft tissue therapy.
- 2:47I've got a mass entrance of people now you can all
- 2:49just say hi at the same time remember this the podcast and i'm going to see you waving hello
- 2:54welcome everybody it's
- 2:57really exciting to see you all here it's so cool we've got such a great panel
- 3:01here people from different backgrounds i'm very excited and if you are joining
- 3:04us live then don't forget to say hi in the comments and ask our people questions
- 3:07i've given them permission to jump on your questions rather than what i'm saying
- 3:11because again all of these podcasts are about giving you the information you're
- 3:15after so feel feel free to ask.
- 3:16And for people who are on the podcast, we'll just introduce slowly.
- 3:19But surely people who are in the panel.
- 3:22So just going round, if you'd like to say what your name is,
- 3:26where you are in the country and what your experience of working with runners
- 3:29is, then that'd be great.
- 3:30So let's start off on my screen. I can see Shane, first of all.
- 3:33So Shane, do this, the favour of introducing yourself, would you?
- 3:37Yeah. So hi, I'm Shane Robinson and I started life out very early as a runner
- 3:41back when I was 15 years old. I'm now 33.
- 3:44So So I've run a long time and it's kind of guided my passions in life, my profession.
- 3:50So I've ended up becoming a sports massage therapist and working with runners
- 3:55and becoming a running coach.
- 3:57I'm involved in park run. I've worked in a running shop. So I like to feel like
- 4:02I've covered a lot of facets of the industry.
- 4:04So it's a brief bit about me and my business at the minute is currently Active
- 4:09Edge Sports Therapy. And that's what I'm trying to build up in Lincoln.
- 4:13To hopefully help as many runners and many people as I can up in Lincoln.
- 4:17Fantastic that was so condensed you've done this elevator pitch before very
- 4:20professional you did forget to tell everybody and
- 4:23very modest that you're uh what what's your what's your 10k at
- 4:26the moment well 10k best is is around 30
- 4:29minutes there we go i mean that's important that's what our listeners are really
- 4:32thinking and you're probably the only person who will reveal their 10k time
- 4:36on the panel tonight so it's good that one of us actually so that's great no
- 4:41great thanks for joining us shane so yeah we'll make sure that all links to
- 4:44websites for each of our panel and ways to get in contact with them will be in the show notes.
- 4:48But yeah, that's Director of Active Age Sports Therapy, Shane Robinson in the panel.
- 4:53Moving across, again, no particular order, but Hannah, Hannah Tabram,
- 4:56would you be so kind to introduce yourself? Hello.
- 4:58Hi, so I'm Hannah Tabram. I'm a sports massage therapist in Norfolk.
- 5:03I trained to do sports massage because I started running fairly late on,
- 5:07sort of in my kind of mid to late 30s. I'm not telling you what year it was, how old I was.
- 5:11But I started running for my mental health and I decided I wanted to
- 5:14do something that would help people to keep moving themselves because of the
- 5:16benefits and then since then I have got very into canicross which is running
- 5:21with dogs running attached to dogs so that is a sport in its own right it's
- 5:27a bit of a niche sport and it's also a sport that has its own particular challenges I think and injury,
- 5:34things so yeah I will be talking about that a little bit.
- 5:37Well if the technical language tonight is absolutely too much for you then there
- 5:43will be a glossary at the end.
- 5:45That's really cool Hannah I'm so pleased that you're here because I think
- 5:48runners with dogs is something that can shock therapists
- 5:51when they do walk through the door because your mind is slightly blown and
- 5:55it's a great example of where everything you thought about what a runner should
- 5:58maybe be doing is totally out of the water which is what we should do
- 6:00all the time an individual so but also I think depending where
- 6:03you are in the world it's probably a market and an area of
- 6:06runners is which a little bit untapped and if you do start working with
- 6:09these people there's there's an awful lot of you on there and you're all kind of yeah there
- 6:12are there are and there are more and more of us and definitely i've had
- 6:14clients who said they've been to sort of therapists who haven't
- 6:18really understood what canny cross is or what they're doing so it is
- 6:20a useful thing to know about it's definitely it's an eye-opener so
- 6:23that's really exciting thanks much for joining us right let's move on my
- 6:26screen to bottom left first row penny tell
- 6:30us about yourself uh hi i'm a
- 6:33a sports massage therapist and a soft tissue therapist and
- 6:36I just literally started my
- 6:39running journey in 2018 so I'm
- 6:42a kind of like a late runner but I got really obsessed with it
- 6:45like I joined a club and I've run quite a lot and big
- 6:48races and all that and then kind of like increased the distance of running up
- 6:53to half marathon and I don't dare do a full I just I'm just there that's That's
- 6:57the maximum amount of distance I want to cover because I have a lot of clients
- 7:02coming in that do ultra running and they have so many injuries.
- 7:07I just, I wouldn't want that for myself.
- 7:10So, yeah, ideally, we want to help all runners out there. But there's so many
- 7:16variables that we have to consider.
- 7:18That's great. Very powerful closing statement. So true. Fantastic.
- 7:21So, yeah, again, we'll put your links, Penny. Thank you very much at the end in the show notes.
- 7:25So that's Penny DeMoss from Soma Sports Massage Therapy. And we'll give the
- 7:28website links like that at the end. Thank you very much. Let's move across to Chris Kitson.
- 7:33Hello. Yeah. So am I Chris Kitson? So my business is Rockstar Runners.
- 7:38So I guess like I got into running a little
- 7:41bit so I'm based up in Leeds and I actually got into running through my
- 7:44clients it was actually they basically inspired me
- 7:47to give it a go and they kind of moved on into triathlon and
- 7:50then yeah since I've kind of niched back down into running a little bit more
- 7:53and work pretty much exclusively with runners now as a sports therapist do a
- 7:59little bit of coaching as well alongside that so they work really well together
- 8:03and yeah currently kind kind of on the way for Manchester Marathon myself in a couple of weeks' time.
- 8:08And yeah, moving towards another kind of ultra marathon later on in the year. That's me. Good luck.
- 8:14Yeah, good to hear. Again, the listeners are like, oh, one of us.
- 8:17We'll listen to this one, definitely. So he's doing a race and everything.
- 8:20And Rockstars Runners is looking amazing, Chris. Obviously, we've known each
- 8:23other for a long time and you've spoken at Therapy Expo.
- 8:25You've been a guest on the show back in where we were just in double figures
- 8:28in 19 and 22, not 19, 22, in episode 19 and episode 22.
- 8:32Too so it's really been exciting and fun to.
- 8:35Join you on your journey and yeah if you haven't checked out rockstar runners
- 8:39yet then make sure you do amazing new
- 8:42website chris is a new but the website is relatively new it's
- 8:45been a bit of a nightmare is it chris or glad to finally have it
- 8:48all together oh yeah absolutely it's been like a
- 8:51lot of people as it's a it was a long time coming but we
- 8:54finally got it over the line now it's looking wicked and and
- 8:57as always on the sta podcast we're looking at all aspects
- 9:00of business and website hosting came up in
- 9:03social media again today somebody asked a question about that and having
- 9:06a website do you need a website watch my website give but yeah
- 9:09if you want like a an example of won't be for everybody's
- 9:12needs but it's it's got bells and whistles and more
- 9:15so yeah check out rockstars runners rockstarrunners.com calm
- 9:19calm calm right fantastic and sarah sarah
- 9:22clatworthy last but not least sarah tell us about yourself hi yeah
- 9:26i'm a sports massage therapist also i qualified
- 9:2911 years ago that was mainly because i started
- 9:33running as well so there's some echoes that i
- 9:35hear around this panel that true fun and also so
- 9:39once i started getting injured i was really interested in
- 9:42why and what was going on so i got into massage at level three and worked up
- 9:48and then since then i've just been trying to add to my experience and what I
- 9:53can offer my clients doing lots of different types of courses like I've just
- 9:57done a very mass analysis for runners recently which was.
- 10:03Brilliant, very helpful. Started using that a lot now with the runners that I see.
- 10:09But also anything that would help me look after my clients at a deeper level.
- 10:14So kinesiology taping, neurological testing, and some things I've done with
- 10:21the sun, which is a beginner's course in sonography,
- 10:24just because I'll be interested and a bit of a digger to want to get as much
- 10:29information as possible out of that.
- 10:30That so but yeah most most of my clients i see probably about 60 percent of them are runners so,
- 10:36i'll be learning from some of these guys tonight as well amazing thank
- 10:40you so much and what part of the country do you say you're in sarah gloucestershire gloucestershire
- 10:44brilliant and that's another thing again just before we crack into what i know
- 10:47is going to be so much valuable information tonight another reason for the sda
- 10:52podcast is obviously to help networking and you get to know each other so if
- 10:56one of our speakers is in the same neck of the woods as you then it It might
- 10:59be a chance to kind of reach out and maybe even meet up,
- 11:02depending on whether that's in your interest or not.
- 11:04But it's just a case of sharing information, which is what we kind of do since COVID.
- 11:07So do pay attention to where, well, first of all, just pay attention.
- 11:11And second, pay attention to where these people are, because they might be just
- 11:14down the road from you. It's incredible.
- 11:16Sometimes speakers on Ask Us Anything realise I'm just down the road from you.
- 11:19We've never met. So it's great. We've got a nice representation around England today.
- 11:24North of Scotland is there. I'm going to pay for that, aren't I?
- 11:27All right. Sorry, Stevie.
- 11:29Sorry, Leslie. But yeah, we are covering England at least pretty well.
- 11:33Right. OK, we're going to crack into it. Thanks, everyone who's joining us.
- 11:35We've got a nice load of people in the live lounge.
- 11:38Thank you very much. And let questions come through as and when they cross your mind, people.
- 11:42But we're going to jump into the topic for tonight, therapy for runners.
- 11:46How do we start this off? The first thing I'm really interested in is all of you guys run.
- 11:50Run okay you're all runners okay so I remember when
- 11:53I was quite well in my career I
- 11:56remember more than one therapist saying to me Matt don't I know you
- 11:59run but make sure you see other runners because it's going
- 12:02to be seasonal you're going to suffer if you only work with runners Matt and
- 12:05I was like but I knew light runners I only identify with runners I don't
- 12:07understand swimmers I don't understand anyone who chases the ball forget that
- 12:10I've got no empathy with anybody who chases after the
- 12:13ball or even works in a team what's that all about ridiculous where
- 12:16people can let you down and you can let others down don't want to know and i
- 12:19think that's quite common with runners it's just you the road
- 12:22or the terrain wherever you are and it's up to you to do what you want to do
- 12:26unless you're doing a relay or something or unless you've got a dog but yeah
- 12:29do you think it really we're all biased as we are runners but do you think it
- 12:33helps being a runner if you're going to really work in that target market anybody
- 12:38can start in any order yeah.
- 12:40Definitely 100 i think you said it matt i think you need to understand the runner
- 12:45runner so I think being a runner helps you do that and when I before I got into
- 12:52therapy when I you know I had no idea I was going to go down this route and
- 12:55I think one of you also said it earlier,
- 12:59it frustrated me when people didn't understand that if I was telling them I
- 13:03was running 70 miles a week and the only response I got was oh that's too much
- 13:07I kind of didn't really resonate with me so I think it helps to understand the
- 13:11runner but on the same basis just being a runner doesn't necessarily help because
- 13:16runners are who we are treating so it's not helping them,
- 13:19so i think it's finding that balance and making sure you understand who you're treating.
- 13:24Yeah opinion that's so cool i just want
- 13:27to resonate that for because being a runner
- 13:30really helps but being a runner isn't enough i
- 13:33think that's such a cool thing i just needed to repeat that that's
- 13:36great definitely like the conversations isn't it
- 13:38obviously if you've got someone in clinic and you can have those
- 13:41similar conversations you can talk about you know
- 13:44the common races that they might do and the types of sessions that they're
- 13:47doing and and just have that kind of common terminology is
- 13:51is super important i think and it can really help in
- 13:53terms of a a connection with with someone which obviously we
- 13:56know the importance of in general within getting that
- 13:59kind of therapeutic clients there as well I think it
- 14:03helps with things like if you're having to have a conversation and say well actually maybe
- 14:06you do need to step it back for a week or two and then build it back up if you
- 14:09can say I understand that's not an easy thing to do and I wouldn't ask you to
- 14:11do it as a runner I wouldn't ask you to do that I'm telling you this because
- 14:15it's for the best I think people sometimes think you know running is really
- 14:19important to them and they They don't necessarily understand that you understand
- 14:22that, if that makes sense.
- 14:24They want, you can empathise with them and say, I know it's not an easy thing
- 14:26to do, but in the long term, it will do you good. And that is why I'm asking
- 14:29you to do it, not just for the sake of it.
- 14:32Yeah, I always say that runners are a different breed. We are a different breed
- 14:37and we need someone to understand us.
- 14:39Yeah. What sets running apart?
- 14:43Is it just our bias or is there something different about the activity of running?
- 14:47It's just because we're great.
- 14:51Which is brilliant i was going to say people are idiots but i
- 14:54think there's a
- 14:57whole bit to this out yeah yeah i saw a really
- 14:59great thing on social media that somebody posted like saying
- 15:02when you tell people you can do this activity if
- 15:05it's not above a three out of ten on the pain score don't say that to runners
- 15:08because they'll underscore themselves give them something it was like tell them
- 15:12it can be mild tolerable pain that doesn't change your gait don't give them
- 15:15a number because i'll be like of course it's a three it's like your legs hanging
- 15:17off it's not a three you know and i think there's something in that yeah i think
- 15:24i think with runners and the uniqueness of us is.
- 15:28I mean, it's a whole body sport. If you go for a one-hour run,
- 15:32the loading of that is quite high.
- 15:35And even though it's different, it's borderline more than deadlifting 200K.
- 15:42So I think that's also why a lot of us get injured.
- 15:45So I think runners experience a lot of injuries, hence why we're all in business.
- 15:50And so you learn a lot. And coming full circle back to being a runner, it helps.
- 15:57You know if you've had a shoulder injury it helps when you treat a shoulder
- 16:00injury if you've had a knee injury it's a running knee injury and you're a runner
- 16:04i think it resonates all around and yeah the longer you spend running the more
- 16:10injuries you'll pick up and i think that's just part and parcel i think that's
- 16:14what kind of makes us unique because we're not getting,
- 16:17slide tackled or you know we're not jumping into people and well it's not meant
- 16:22to be non-contact it's all self-inflicted yeah and he crosses a bit different i think.
- 16:29Yeah so i think like
- 16:32the uniqueness of it and then a lot of sports even team sport
- 16:35running still forms the basis of them but i
- 16:38might just be biased so i'm interested then because i'm keen for this if there
- 16:44if there are therapists out there who realize there's a lot of runners around
- 16:49them that there's running clubs and there's like local maybe halves park runs
- 16:52runs marathons thinking wow there's people that can really help and i really want to.
- 16:56Do you think that what do you think
- 16:59would help them get these runners in should
- 17:02they be maybe do they need to have a certain level of
- 17:05running themselves or do they have to start going down to local
- 17:07events or how if they haven't already got these runners coming to
- 17:10them what are some tips to try and get these runners coming through their door and start
- 17:14coaching then you can get them injured yourself bend them
- 17:18then bend them and as a
- 17:22massage therapist i started out going to local or
- 17:26races that were organized by the club
- 17:29i'm affiliated with so you
- 17:32were visible for a start and people just would
- 17:35you know you'd get around word of mouth as
- 17:38well and so the the club
- 17:42races is a good place to start I think
- 17:45thinking about online as well like on my website I have
- 17:48a blog which I haven't updated for ages but it's there and there
- 17:51are a couple of bits about you know should I have a massage after I've done
- 17:54a marathon will it help this you know what's a pre and post race massage about
- 17:58and every year and around this time of year when I look at the clicks on my
- 18:02website people start to click on those articles again because the marathon season
- 18:05and that kind of thing just helps it helps to pull traffic towards your website
- 18:10if you've got that sort of stuff on there.
- 18:13Yeah you're involved in one way or another don't
- 18:16you i think with runners because running is such
- 18:19a social thing i'm not a social runner
- 18:21at all you know the idea of saying to somebody trying
- 18:24to go out for a run it's just for me it makes me feel a
- 18:27bit sick thinking about it for me running is being by myself with the
- 18:30elements being on the elements lovely me against the rain the
- 18:33sun the wind love it but the idea of expecting to
- 18:36talk to someone next to me whilst i'm having this out of of body experience
- 18:39it's just not for me but that in my career has
- 18:42caused problems because I think a lot of runners do it for the
- 18:44social reasons and the mixing and they're more likely to go and
- 18:47see someone who is a friend of a friend whose face they
- 18:50know I think they're quite is that have you
- 18:53had that experience or do you think that is the case with runners in particular yeah yeah
- 18:57I think word of
- 19:00mouth definitely helps but again going back to runners being
- 19:03a unique breed and and actually us being
- 19:06runners i think we as a.
- 19:09Runner myself like the therapists i've gotten with the past so that the ones
- 19:12that actually have also been able to be social with you know as
- 19:15chris mentioned talk about my races people who you
- 19:18share interest with if you as a therapist shares
- 19:21interest with these people they're going to
- 19:24like you they're going to recommend their friends to you
- 19:27because their friends by definition will share the same values as them
- 19:30and then they'll they'll come and follow us so i think it's probably a very
- 19:33organic thing i think like yeah going to events and obviously handing out flyers
- 19:40like that's the environment you want to work in anyway so i think that naturally
- 19:44builds and actually helps just to play devil's advocate a little bit.
- 19:49I'm quite honest with what i think of sports massage
- 19:52as a sports massage therapist and the narrative
- 19:55that's around it and that might lose me business
- 19:58at times so it's finding the right balance with
- 20:01all of this stuff and think and yeah word of
- 20:04mouth is probably the best if you're able to get
- 20:07your your values out I guess in business
- 20:10and in as a therapist just my opinion
- 20:13I think there's a lot of like obviously a lot of
- 20:16runners their their big fear seems to be anyways obviously just
- 20:19going to a therapist and instantly being told that they can't run
- 20:22anymore so and obviously having that
- 20:25and having people have that experience with you
- 20:28and like that like that gets talked on quite early on
- 20:31in my sessions generally with people i've just met them
- 20:34it's just like you know i i hear a lot of people
- 20:37and and this and like obviously the last thing we want is to
- 20:39stop you running so let's have a you know a good solid assessment so
- 20:42that we can really make some some informed decisions on
- 20:45that but i i'm always kind of like i'm kind of the guy that like if i can keep
- 20:50you running like i will keep you running and straight away they just like that
- 20:54that guy drops and then they're like right okay let's do this together and we
- 20:58go from there very cool very good I'd say Martin if you're a runner,
- 21:04there's a kind of like a given empathy.
- 21:06Formed in the session as soon as you come you have a runner come in your clinic
- 21:10they know you're a runner,
- 21:12that it kind of like creates that empathy straight away you don't even have
- 21:15to work too hard for it yeah do you think connected with that i'm thinking i've seen with other,
- 21:21maybe less experienced therapists that they're worried
- 21:24that because they're not as fast as the
- 21:27other runners who they want to treat they're a bit worried about going down
- 21:30to the local park run because they're thinking who's going to ask you
- 21:33know who's going to come and see me if they know that i'm doing like a 35 45
- 21:36a 40 minute you know 5k or something so is
- 21:40that something you've either experienced yourself or still experienced a
- 21:43little bit and if so have you got any tips for helping people get over that i
- 21:46mean i'm quite a mediocre runner i will quite cheerfully
- 21:49say that i am happily mediocre i wish i
- 21:52could say i was mediocre still that's great but it doesn't
- 21:55seem to put people off i think that you know people
- 21:58just like the fact that you are a runner and you understand how
- 22:01important it is to them were you nervous at first
- 22:04or i mean you belong to your main activity is
- 22:07kind of cross isn't it yeah yeah I mean I think it's
- 22:10just nerve-wracking just sort of going to a new club and meeting new people
- 22:13but I was always I've always been quite open
- 22:16that you know the reason that I came into this job was because of
- 22:19my running background and I'm not the fastest and a lot of
- 22:22my social media if I put something on about my
- 22:24running it's like no I'm not very fast but I really love it and I want you.
- 22:27To carry on loving it as well so come and see me and you know
- 22:30we'll try and sort this out and I tend to go on that not on
- 22:33I'll make you the fastest person around because i can't massage
- 22:37you into being any faster anyway but very much
- 22:39you know i'll try and keep you going as much as we can i think
- 22:43that's that's brilliant because that shows like the passion and but
- 22:46when i started out i was actually concerned of the opposite that i suppose locally
- 22:50i'm you know one of the quicker runners and i was known for that and i didn't
- 22:54want to almost become elitist with it and people not think they can see me because
- 23:00they're not and but actually i mean i I learned this when I worked in running retail is,
- 23:06you know, before I got into any sort of profession with running,
- 23:09I just assumed most people are like me.
- 23:11And then I started working in a running shop and I realized,
- 23:13no, I'm actually the minority.
- 23:15I think you go down to a park run and they are the busiest from a lot of them
- 23:20from 25 minutes through to 40, 50 minutes.
- 23:22So I think actually if you're, you don't, I think if you're not fast,
- 23:27you probably actually relate with most most runners and then also people like me.
- 23:34We get injured less typically because our training, we've trained smart from
- 23:38a young age. Well, hopefully we have anyway.
- 23:41And actually, the more training you do and the more balanced your training is
- 23:45and your training intensity distribution, the less you need treatments.
- 23:48I think then you go into, I just need a massage just because I like them and
- 23:52they make me feel better.
- 23:53But I think, yeah, if you're a passionate therapist and a passionate runner
- 24:00as well, it doesn't matter what level you are.
- 24:03You're going to resonate with everybody else who's passionate and i
- 24:05think that's the state of you and they
- 24:08they know it's within your best interest as a
- 24:11therapist to get them better is to
- 24:14ironically not get them through your door and as
- 24:17a result they'll probably bring you more business i think as
- 24:20well i think like i was
- 24:23thinking back to sort of like the start of it i guess when i got into it
- 24:26like when i wasn't into running or triathlon
- 24:28or anything at that point and actually the draw for for
- 24:31me it was like i was just showing genuine interest and i
- 24:34was just like really asking them questions i was just sat there fascinated
- 24:37by it all and i was just like this is amazing that you can do this and you know
- 24:42and like that they they love that obviously and just kind of like having that
- 24:46you know someone going like you know i think you're ace like i think you're
- 24:49amazing i can't believe you can do this like no one doesn't like to hear that do they really so.
- 24:55That's on the other side of you if you're not you know into the sport yourself
- 24:58i think it's not to to say, okay, you know, you shouldn't be working with runners
- 25:02or anything because actually, you know, it's just, again, it's that same as Aiton, isn't it?
- 25:06Just showing that genuine interest
- 25:08in someone, asking questions and just learning about them, really.
- 25:13Brilliant do you think chris sorry i'm gonna ask you a question now
- 25:15do you think that feeds back into like understanding runners
- 25:19and comes back to actually if you're not a runner does that
- 25:22mean it doesn't mean you can't like treat runners yeah
- 25:26exactly this is it because if you like say if you're not
- 25:28a runner even so if you if you're just showing that.
- 25:31Genuine interest and like you you know they they perceive that
- 25:34okay this person really wants to hear about this and they want.
- 25:37To learn and you can show them you know and ask them
- 25:40like what resources have you got for me you know know how can you
- 25:43help me better understand what you're doing like that
- 25:45in itself like that's huge isn't it like i've treated
- 25:48people yeah different sports and i
- 25:51don't understand the sports i have to actively ask and say
- 25:54i'm really sorry but i don't know much about this like could you you
- 25:57know yeah cool isn't it
- 26:01like again people you showing that genuine interest and
- 26:04naturally like you know this is going over and above and i'm
- 26:07going to do this job well let's work and do it together absolutely
- 26:10yeah great tips great
- 26:13stuff coming out so so we've covered the fact that
- 26:16it does help if you're a runner but maybe more importantly you don't
- 26:19have to be fantastically fast runner don't be embarrassed about
- 26:22your time it's more a case of just showing up and showing people that you
- 26:25care that you want to help if anything even if you
- 26:28are you know slower and you're still there that shows
- 26:30a certain kind of part of your character show yeah
- 26:33i'm slow so what it's not all about that it's about me being here i
- 26:36really want to help you guys it's all part of a team so it's great and
- 26:39i love the fact that it's really hopefully it's
- 26:42inspiring to listeners that shane at the opposite where it's like oh i'm gonna
- 26:46be too fast people can think i'm a leak people can't yet so even somebody who's
- 26:49like doing that sort of those sort of speeds is still going to have imposter
- 26:52syndrome or some kind of like oh i shouldn't be here no one's going to want
- 26:55to know me sort of thing so it's great it works for both ends so yeah interesting
- 26:58let's move on maybe to Two, common injuries.
- 27:02Is there such a thing as the most common injuries in running in your experience?
- 27:08Or do you get to see all sorts of different things in clinic?
- 27:11I mean, I did a straw poll. This is a canicross straw poll of my club before
- 27:16I came on tonight. And it was all about ankles.
- 27:18They're just ankles being sprained left, right and centre.
- 27:22And I think that's just, yeah, you're running at speed over terrain and it's going to happen.
- 27:28Be really interested if that's really common for just trail running generally,
- 27:32because I tend to sort of focus. A lot of my running clients are canicrossers.
- 27:36I suspect for trail running, it's probably similar, but
- 27:39it's not something that i would want to say
- 27:42with any certainty that's really interesting that's going
- 27:44to open up a little chat now about right there's running and
- 27:48then there's trail running there's canna cross there's different
- 27:51distances you know there's track running there's all
- 27:54sorts of different environments which you need to know if you're working with your
- 27:57patient so let's let's let's do if you
- 27:59don't mind i'll flip it on his head and do canna cross
- 28:02after trail running because i think that's basically trail running
- 28:05with a with a dog putting you along yeah let's go
- 28:10trail running first of all who out of you guys who particularly works
- 28:13with trail runners or done trail running yourself and if so what sort of injuries
- 28:16do you think are more prevalent yeah i've seen quite
- 28:19a few trail runners and an orienteer orienteer is
- 28:23actually all right so apart from the injuries where they're
- 28:25running into trees i think it
- 28:29is it is mostly ankles knees i
- 28:32also don't know whether with trail runners is
- 28:35a bit bit more of a culture of just running and
- 28:38using your running as trainings and whether some of them are slightly
- 28:41less robust because they won't do as much
- 28:44strength work or any stuff outside of it again if
- 28:47trail running is associated with ultra running there's a there's a big component
- 28:51on a lot of people like going quite slow relatively so they might not do as
- 28:55much speed work either so i think that feeds into it but actually i i think
- 29:00from just off the top of my head i've not quite I've done extensive research, but I think ankles.
- 29:05Shin pain, usually.
- 29:08Obviously, the loading mechanics are completely different when you're on a trail.
- 29:11One, I think that's a good thing, and I'd recommend everybody does some trail running.
- 29:16But yeah, I think because you can't control as much either.
- 29:21And from year to year, it can be different. We've had so much rain this year.
- 29:25That's, by definition, going to mean that this winter will be different loading
- 29:29patterns to last winter.
- 29:31So as a runner, you can't always just think, well, I did that last year. This is fine.
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- 30:42in agreement then that most of the trail runners and our interiors and that
- 30:45who we see is it's more ankles than the knees then is that safe to say and is
- 30:50that because of terrain then is that because of the fact that you're having
- 30:53to either invert and all that more i think yeah so.
- 30:59Yeah or maybe as well part of it again people tend
- 31:02to like it's almost like a like it was almost a rite of passage that people
- 31:07finish on the road and then go into trails was it because everybody's been conditioned
- 31:11with impacts on hard surfaces where you get energy and then you're going uneven
- 31:16surfaces with no energy return so yeah it might be something to do with that as well perhaps.
- 31:22And i think sometimes people don't realize how different it is
- 31:24like i had someone come to see me the other day who's training to do a trail
- 31:27half marathon i was like well where are you doing your training he's like mostly
- 31:30i'm running on the road i was like you need to get off the road you need to train
- 31:33on the surface you're going to be running on especially because a lot of
- 31:35it's on the beach i was like dude you need to get onto the under some
- 31:38sand you can't train on the road and then run on a beach you know
- 31:41your legs will fall off and i think that sometimes people don't
- 31:44realize how much of a difference that is going to make until something.
- 31:48Starts to complain that's really cool so
- 31:51yeah specificity getting somebody to especially if they're going in
- 31:54for a race or something getting training on what they're going to be
- 31:56training the same kind of it's undulating you need to be doing more heels and stuff
- 31:59if it's flat then you know you can probably stay off the heels for the
- 32:02moment unless it's early on so in that case i'm going to draw upon
- 32:05your expertise now to think one what could
- 32:08trail runners be doing to reduce the risk
- 32:11of injury which is tricky and then afterwards we'll go
- 32:14what are some of your go-tos for somebody is coming in with ankle
- 32:17related pain in order to rehab them properly and fully
- 32:20to be able to go out and do what they're going so let's let's start with the reducing
- 32:23the risk of injury for trail runners is there things they should be doing more than a
- 32:26flat road runner sort of thing i i
- 32:29think it's on it sounds counterintuitive but
- 32:32i think going back into actually what an elite athlete might do running
- 32:36drills movement drills low level plyometric stuff obviously not over emphasizing
- 32:41on it if they're not needing to build really elastic tendons etc because of
- 32:47of the loading on there but But I think not many runners do anything else other than run.
- 32:53So any more ankle work I think is great.
- 32:56I love prescribing stuff that people can do around the house,
- 33:01like tiptoe walking and duck walks and stuff like that, just to get the ankles moving more.
- 33:06And also, I suppose this underpins all injuries, but actually controlling the
- 33:11training load a little bit.
- 33:12If they got injured because of everything on trails, well, actually get back
- 33:16and do a bit more on the road again. If you're doing everything on the road,
- 33:19actually, you need to do some trail running, this specificity you mentioned.
- 33:24So I think they're the two things I usually work on, looking at actually what
- 33:29is their running distribution in terms of the surfaces, and then just throwing
- 33:33in some easy drill work that you might see a track athlete do.
- 33:38Go into a bit more detail. You mentioned a couple of exercises then and just
- 33:41different ways of walking in that, you know, to strengthen those ankles.
- 33:44What were some of your people be sitting there now with their pens going?
- 33:48Walking on your tiptoes. It's lovely. Yeah, it really burns your calves.
- 33:53I call them duck walks, but walking on your heels. So, you know,
- 33:56basically going into full dorsiflexion really makes your shins.
- 34:00And then from that, I typically progress into things like pogo jumps,
- 34:04which are basically just sort of springing up, using your feet,
- 34:09keeping nice straight legs.
- 34:10I'm a big, big fan of those three. And me personally, not saying there's a way
- 34:16you should do anything, but I think the attention span of us runners isn't great.
- 34:21As soon as you've told them they can do some running, that's it.
- 34:24They're off and prepared.
- 34:25Try to keep more than three things.
- 34:29Brilliant. try and improve adherence and again those
- 34:32are specific because they're a bit more fun they're a bit more easy i think
- 34:37to integrate and finding a step and spending 10 minutes doing calf raises but
- 34:41that's just my opinion again that's really cool skipping skipping i love skipping
- 34:46right and hops yeah i feel like i need to take notes i spray my ankle in january.
- 34:55That's a really important point actually and i've seen
- 34:57chris kind of of chris if i mean all of you are
- 35:00amazing i just chris has got some great graphics out there
- 35:03but chris i've seen you hopping on quite a lot about
- 35:06how like don't give your under too many exercises and things
- 35:09because it's just exactly what shane said here you know we have to remember
- 35:12that our runners just want to get out so just getting to do three exercises
- 35:16will be tricky enough so is there any go-to favorites for you chris if you're
- 35:20thinking like three exercises getting to be a little bit more plyometric a little
- 35:23bit more yeah i guess i mean obviously off the back watch And just thinking,
- 35:27I guess, a bit trail as well.
- 35:30A little bit in terms of like multi-directional work as well so
- 35:33I think pogos not just thinking right okay you said you
- 35:36were playing all the time as well thinking right okay can I give like some
- 35:38lateral pogos and start challenging that a little bit more playing around
- 35:42with like different depths as well so thinking about right okay not just
- 35:45like shallow pogos but can I get a little bit more height in here can
- 35:48we look at stuff like later on again but things like
- 35:51depth jumps and you know like some of those bigger impacts like
- 35:54if you think in terms of like trails and ultras and stuff we
- 35:57have to think right okay you've got the running sections but then you've
- 36:00also got things where you might be going over styles where you're having
- 36:02to actually do some pretty big bigger drops off the top of the walls
- 36:05and things like that again that comes with obviously the
- 36:08understanding of the sport and and thinking about that
- 36:11and actually what are they going to encounter and therefore what forces
- 36:14do we have to deal with that sort of stuff can be really important i guess again
- 36:18depending on where they're at within within the training if for instance someone's
- 36:23a little little bit more new to trails or they're thinking about going from
- 36:27kind of road running through to trail classically people might go say i've done
- 36:32a marathon so i want to do an ultra marathon.
- 36:34Very much than trail which is quite classic people
- 36:39walk in because the runners like
- 36:42seem to hate walking and it's such a good way
- 36:45of training so i'm literally just getting
- 36:48on getting some and trail shoes on and getting used to being on that
- 36:51terrain walking where you've just got lower force versions of what you're going
- 36:54to be doing essentially get going with that get some good uphill and downhill
- 36:58running drills in basically with walking and making them maybe a little bit
- 37:04more walk running nature and and again just kind of like reintroducing those forces basically a.
- 37:14And I'm sure Shane would have come to that eventually, but you just rather inventing new exercises.
- 37:18It's just a progression from doing what Shane recommended is the first thing
- 37:21and then adding multi-direction to it.
- 37:23Yes. Add in those transverse things and things you can do with any exercise
- 37:26kind of progression to prepare for that.
- 37:28Really cool. Penny, Sarah, what you got? Yeah, it also depends what their injury
- 37:36is at and what they can manage. So what run they are on.
- 37:40So I would say previous to the stuff that Shane was talking about,
- 37:44out and Chris as well you would
- 37:47probably look at something more like
- 37:50a single look star works and curtsies
- 37:54something that can be done on a static level but still
- 37:57involves rotation and flexion etc
- 38:00of the ankle just to just to challenge it
- 38:03at that level before you start adding the dynamics to
- 38:06it so I would I would just check where they're
- 38:09at with or measure with their injury
- 38:12first and then go from there and forward to
- 38:15the levels that chris and and shane
- 38:18talked about brilliant so rehab essentially
- 38:21often comes regressing back from those exercises we're
- 38:24getting healthy runners to do and then building up to being able
- 38:27to do those things again so we wouldn't get somebody who's just had a car straight
- 38:30straight away doing po going around the lounge but we need
- 38:33to break that down and give them something less so it's amazing how many people
- 38:36say say they can run as soon as you get them to try and balance on one leg i'm
- 38:41terrible at this i'm really bad at this it's like yeah but you you know you
- 38:45run 60 miles a week how can you be bad at balancing on one leg it doesn't make
- 38:49sense it's like they've they've hopped too many stones basically.
- 38:53Cool. Like it. Rehab could be fun as well. You can do a lot of salsa dancing.
- 38:57There's a lot of lateral movement in salsa dancing. I like it.
- 39:00Back and forth, side and side. Yeah, that's my rehab.
- 39:04You said that everyone on the screen is dying. It's kind of like a little jubilee
- 39:08of their seats, looking around.
- 39:10Is that an excuse to do some dancing or some CBD courses? Yeah. Brilliant.
- 39:16That's good. Really great stuff there, people. I love it. Some really great advice.
- 39:20And then also, I think, and we've already kind of touched
- 39:22upon it talking about that ladder which i think sarah
- 39:25you mentioned i love the idea of a ladder often we do forget
- 39:29to take them far enough
- 39:32up that ladder before letting them go back to running again or let
- 39:35them go back to the speeds of the inclines of the terrains we forget
- 39:38to get to do pretty difficult nasty plyometric.
- 39:42Exercises as that end stage rehab i
- 39:45think that's where a lot of therapists fall back and that's why their
- 39:48runner goes out and suddenly they're back in your clinic again which isn't
- 39:51good for business it was in the 90s was a perfect model but nowadays
- 39:54it just gives you a bad reputation they'll go and see someone else because there's
- 39:57so many therapists out there now who can offer them something
- 40:00else so great stuff okay so let's add
- 40:03all of that to a dog pound bringing
- 40:07you along what could go wrong with that
- 40:10that was enough the multi-terrain and the
- 40:13need for transverse movements and we have some time unpredictable
- 40:16animal as well would it
- 40:19help if i just sort of explain a bit about what canny cross that'd be great we'd
- 40:22love to yeah so it's canine cross country
- 40:25is essentially what it stands for and it is trail running
- 40:28with your dog if i really quickly share my try to
- 40:30share my screen again and then i will show you
- 40:35this picture of what
- 40:38i'm talking about so for those on the podcast this is me canny crossing with
- 40:42my dog can i can you see that we can see that cool so basically i've got a belt
- 40:48that goes around my hips which is attached to a bungee lead which is attached
- 40:51to my dog's harness and the harness is designed for him to be able to pull into
- 40:55and this was about halfway through a 5k race and the first one that we did after
- 41:00i've been injured so we were both a bit unfit but we were doing our best but
- 41:04that kind of shows how hard i hope.
- 41:07He's really pulling so let's stop sharing and come back so what you would use for the candy cross,
- 41:13is you the runner wears a belt and this is mine and what you have is a big broad
- 41:18strap that sits around the back of the hips that's sort of suspended from a
- 41:22little skinny waist strap there should be no pressure on the waist strap all
- 41:25the pulling comes through the hips and then you've got two leg straps underneath
- 41:28which stop it from riding up so it's a little bit like a harness and you kind of climb into it,
- 41:33that's attached to a bungee lead, to excuse the rude words on my bungee lead,
- 41:39which insulates you a bit from the dog jerking around and then that's attached onto the harness.
- 41:44So in addition to all the things that come along with trail running,
- 41:47the trip hazards, the difficult terrain, you then have the addition of a dog
- 41:52who's pulling you along.
- 41:53And how hard they pull will vary from dog to dog. Like my dog is quite a strong puller.
- 41:57Some dogs are just quite happy to try along with you and it's quite civilized and nice,
- 42:01but mine pulls is really hard and so you're
- 42:04going to be running a lot quicker than you're used to quite soon
- 42:08in the process as well because your dog will get fit a lot
- 42:11quicker than you will and so if I look at
- 42:14some stats off my watch are not very scientific but you know it's the best I've
- 42:18got my stride length increases from like about a meter to a meter 29 when I'm
- 42:23candy crossing between that and an easy run my cadence goes up a lot I the vertical
- 42:28oscillation I don't know how how my watch knows this, but apparently that goes up a lot.
- 42:32I'm spending less time on the ground and my pace goes from,
- 42:37I don't know if I want to share this, it's embarrassing, but my easy run pace
- 42:40is about 844 per kilometre and my canny cross pace on this one was 510 per kilometre
- 42:46and that was quite a technical trail. So we were going quite slowly.
- 42:49I mean, he's taken six minutes off my 5k time.
- 42:52So what you tend to look at,
- 42:55what you would tend to be thinking if someone comes
- 42:58and says that's my canny crosser you want to think about
- 43:01is their belt fitted properly are they using the right
- 43:04equipment people can say i'm running with my dog and they
- 43:07might have something that goes around their waist and then obviously you're
- 43:09putting your back at risk so are they using the correct equipment are they sure
- 43:13it's sitting in the right place how hard does their dog pull is their dog quite
- 43:17steady or are they prone to suddenly vanishing off sideways after squirrels
- 43:21because obviously suddenly you're running along in a straight line although
- 43:24you're going sideways place. Okay, that's fine.
- 43:27And you need to think about the biomechanics. You would expect to see ankle
- 43:31injuries, hamstrings, glutes, that kind of thing.
- 43:34You need to be thinking about balance and proprioception because you're not
- 43:38necessarily going to land where you think you're going to land.
- 43:41Because as you're in the air, the dog's going to pull you forward.
- 43:44And so people need to kind of get their head around that. And you need to get used to that.
- 43:49Your form is possibly going to change because you're being pulled forward from the hips.
- 43:52So you need to be thinking about that. and you need to be looking at things
- 43:56like core strength and stability and have you got enough of those two things
- 43:59to balance against the fraction the dog's giving you.
- 44:05Actually wonder whether trail runners as part of their cross training to prepare
- 44:09them for trail running should go out with the dog and imagine then taking that
- 44:12dog off and just having that,
- 44:15reaction time that's incredible so yes
- 44:18penny you're going to say were you going to jump in there i wanted to ask
- 44:20if there's like proper training that we can do because i'm really interested now
- 44:24would you mean as in training to
- 44:26start canny cross yeah so you what
- 44:30i would recommend doing is have a look online i got
- 44:33my kit from a website called dog fit and they have a
- 44:36harness finding form where you can put your dog's measurements in and they'll help you
- 44:38find the right kit and they do starter packs and then
- 44:41do the catch to 5k with your dog even if you're.
- 44:44Already a runner even if you know you're used to running
- 44:47do that anyway because the dog's got to to get used
- 44:50to pulling you as well that's like that's a lot for the dog that's
- 44:52hard work for them you might skip through it a bit more quickly than
- 44:55if you were starting from scratch but it's always a good idea
- 44:58to get used to that um and have a look and see if you've got
- 45:01a local candy club because i will as you
- 45:04can hear we really like talking about it i've been
- 45:07a whole episode honey and i've come back and maybe come with three members it
- 45:10sounds really fascinating and i can i can see
- 45:13just from the look on your dog's face the enjoyment
- 45:16it must give you the fact that you know one is
- 45:20yeah it's amazing but we'll do a whole episode on this
- 45:22i'm thinking maybe there's so
- 45:25much in there which could change injuries it's interesting you
- 45:28said like vertical oscillation was increasing i think that's just the body trying
- 45:32to manage how it's what it's going to do during this flight time it can't possibly
- 45:37have a cadence which is fast enough to keep you moving along the ground so it's
- 45:40like we'll set them up in the air yeah but it's obviously that means you're
- 45:43gonna be landing hard and not only gonna be landing on a stone somewhere on
- 45:46even ground you're gonna be Yeah, you definitely do.
- 45:49And if you do trip, obviously you've got a lot of forward pressure. So I tripped last year.
- 45:56I caught my foot. I was jumping over a bike jump in the woods and I caught my toe.
- 46:01And because I had the dog pulling me forward, I just couldn't recover at all. And I just...
- 46:05Broke my fall with my face so it was fine but you
- 46:09know everyone falls over everyone falls over it
- 46:12just comes with the territory so yeah there
- 46:16was a really good talk to therapy experts quite a common theme amongst three.
- 46:19I think angela jackson physio andrew his last
- 46:22name's always muck something i can't remember his name the irish
- 46:26guy anyway it was all about this idea of
- 46:29training athletes for the chaos which is
- 46:32their sporting environment and the one word which changes
- 46:34my mind not only with canicross but even with trail
- 46:37is there's more chaos out there there's more unpredictability and
- 46:41they were kind of talking a lot about if you i mean they were relating
- 46:44it more to football to rugby where you are suddenly going
- 46:47to have to move out the way from an opponent and you're going to have to react to
- 46:50your environment and often in rehab we don't prepare people for
- 46:53this enough and they will do it through lights through signals through
- 46:56having to quickly change direction landing position but
- 46:59i think even with trail runners that could be
- 47:02something which therapists would benefit from where you're not just
- 47:05allowing the runner to be multi-direction and move to the right move
- 47:07to the left move backwards i think that's the case where you could stand in
- 47:10front or even have lights where they have to react to the light and
- 47:13suddenly change because i guess that's what's happening especially with the dog
- 47:16where you say you don't know where you're going to land your body's got to suddenly
- 47:19centrically deserter decelerate and then accelerate again
- 47:22just like that in a moment and if you can't do
- 47:25that then you're bound to get get muscles tired and strained
- 47:28and it is really quite chaotic so yeah chris have you am i risking my life hannah
- 47:35just running around not your whole life hannah looks at me and not honey well
- 47:42make sure you're in the canicross episode yeah i'll be there now you are in
- 47:46a brace and you're left in one of those.
- 47:48I'll show you i'll show the picture of the black eye that i got when i fell
- 47:51over and everyone go oh god don't do that because you do work much with reactive
- 47:55stuff have you got involved in your lights or have you i can imagine you getting
- 47:58involved with red and green lights you know what yeah i've so i played around
- 48:02at mike rice's place yesterday with with a bit of that stuff yeah in our place
- 48:06to be fair we don't really have anything like that so.
- 48:08What I do have is a bit of, I don't know if you've seen them,
- 48:12they're like basically like little reaction balls where they're like ugly shit
- 48:15and you can basically like bounce them and you don't know which direction it's
- 48:19going to go in. Oh, yeah, we call them rugby balls down there. Yeah.
- 48:22After they fall, basically, and try to get them in.
- 48:26It is again chaos, basically. It's just that throwing that in just reacts.
- 48:31I've done quite a bit of stuff with things where we'll
- 48:34get like bouncing things off walls and
- 48:37things like that and kind of throwing where they've got a turn turn
- 48:40when i shout and things like this to things
- 48:44quickly and played around with that sort of stuff yeah it's
- 48:47good fun so great really important in-stage rehab to get
- 48:50the runner used to when they do have to suddenly change direction to miss
- 48:53that tree to suddenly get their footing back when they
- 48:55hit that uneven terrain or something i think one thing
- 48:58as well thinking about canny cross sorry not to
- 49:01drag it back that too much but warm-ups are particularly important
- 49:04because if you're going to go for a trail run generally i think a lot
- 49:07of of people not me but obviously you're like
- 49:10oh I'll just start slowly and that's my warm-up and I'll
- 49:12run slowly for the first five minutes but you don't really
- 49:15do that when you do canny cross you start flat out and
- 49:19so warming up is something that I think we're not
- 49:22ask people if they warm up because we're not always
- 49:25very good at doing that because we're sorting our dogs out and we're not really
- 49:28very good at cooling down because we're sorting our dogs out and then by the
- 49:31time we've sorted the dog out you're like oh I think I'm cool now I'm just gonna
- 49:33go and have a cup of tea and a chat and so that's quite important and actually
- 49:39i'd be really interested if anyone else on the panel like what do you say about warm-ups,
- 49:44I go for a run before I run with my dog. Does that help?
- 49:48I do a couple of miles, honestly. I do a couple of miles before I come and get
- 49:52him to then run with him. Yeah, that's probably quite a lot.
- 49:56It's a good topic because lots of the traditional advice is,
- 49:58oh, well, have you warmed up? Or guess what, the runner says no.
- 50:00Oh, well, that's what's causing your injury.
- 50:02If you know that no runner's going to say, oh, yes, yes, I spent.
- 50:06But how, what do, in 2024 now, and I don't know what the answer is going to
- 50:10be, I'm not going to judge, but what do we recommend?
- 50:13It will depend on the individual in front of us, but what do we recommend a
- 50:16warm-up needs to be for a lot of runners?
- 50:19I think maybe unpopular opinion.
- 50:24They're not as important as we're made out to believe.
- 50:29And I think if you tell runners without understanding their context,
- 50:33what they want to do, that they need to warm up, I think you start to tie into
- 50:38some... Sorry, you can hear that's a dog.
- 50:41Dog dog friendly tonight get him in some caddy cross.
- 50:48Yeah it's i think if yeah i
- 50:51think it depends on the runner it depends on the relative intensity you're going
- 50:54to be doing something i think that's a really good point about if your
- 50:57dog is going to take you out fast because you know
- 51:00a lot of the research on warm-up is mainly about perception of effort
- 51:03but it's just uncomfortable if you're doing something
- 51:06hard your body's not ready to do
- 51:09it as for increasing the risk of injuries
- 51:12and things like that i i don't think
- 51:15that's really that accurate or true it's certainly not
- 51:18in my case when i've kind of been late to a race or had to scrimp on my warm-up
- 51:23a little bit i felt awful starting but it's not always even impacting my performance
- 51:29jay what would what would you say so so your clients who are already injured
- 51:35who who are trying to get back to running,
- 51:37would you give them a specific warm-up to make sure that their injury here is ready to go?
- 51:44Or would you recommend the same? I have this discussion with a lot of them.
- 51:51Sometimes, I don't know if you'd call it manipulative or not,
- 51:54but sometimes I do encourage a warm-up a bit more because actually,
- 51:58if that's the time that person's going to do their rehab,
- 52:01warm-up stuff that you can do, like the drills and the things,
- 52:04and I'm sure Chris sets a lot of his runners as well.
- 52:08What's the components of a warm-up other than running? A really good rehab and
- 52:12almost prehab work as well.
- 52:15Growing up, I didn't get too many injuries and I'd seem to get away with murder.
- 52:19Looking back, it's because I lived near where I trained up at the track.
- 52:23I was doing warm-ups two or three times a week, just because it's what you did.
- 52:28So even when I was injured, I wanted to go back and see my mates and be in a social environment.
- 52:33And I always did the warm-up. So call it bias or not, despite
- 52:36me not knowing that it's not overly
- 52:39important in terms of putting the emphasis on
- 52:43it from a injury reduction point of view i don't
- 52:46i think that's a load of crap if i'm honest but i
- 52:50think it's a really good time to people
- 52:53to do their rehab stuff because if you tell them it's part of their running
- 52:57and it's going to make them a better runner and it's not adding in boring rehab
- 53:00boring rehab exercises i think it's a really useful time to do it and coming
- 53:05back to the chaos and the reactions and stuff when you're doing warm-up drills
- 53:09high high knees or this type of thing,
- 53:12you're not going to be running with your knees up to your chest,
- 53:16unless you do a caddy cross perhaps.
- 53:18But when you're doing that in warm-ups, like you're increasing your movement
- 53:22window and you're increasing that load window and if people just run and only
- 53:26run and then only do a run to warm up for their running.
- 53:30They don't get much room for error
- 53:33really so i think warm-ups are good
- 53:36for that but i really don't think
- 53:38it's a case of you warm up you reduce the chance of
- 53:41injury so it's a case of where it might
- 53:44make a difference but there's lower hanging fruit which is always the nice expression
- 53:47which if people believe that their five minutes of
- 53:50whatever they do is going to stop them from getting injured as
- 53:53opposed to monitoring their training load or running
- 53:56at a sensible pace or or whatever it is then yeah
- 53:59they're going to put all their trust in something which is less likely to
- 54:02work than something else i think that's probably the message
- 54:05how do you how do you sit in terms of chris
- 54:09i'm going to say to you because you've been through i know you've been through the
- 54:12years of seeing things come and go and change but are you much
- 54:16for getting athletes to do something other than run at a slower pace
- 54:18before they run in training get it.
- 54:21Kind of depends on the sessions so like it's typically
- 54:25a case of like if i'm just like if you're doing a higher intensity session then
- 54:28let's let's just drill you a little bit more but again it will
- 54:31be more sort of like running drill stuff really rather than
- 54:35it being like right okay i want you to do this very
- 54:37specific kind of warm-up and things like again similar
- 54:40like in terms like even you know just in clinical experience i
- 54:43don't really see many issues with people not really
- 54:46warming up like it just doesn't seem
- 54:49to to be a big thing and yeah is a
- 54:52case of i guess like from the warmer probably
- 54:55see there's like the injury risk side of things and then like i think
- 54:58we spoke about before in terms of like psychological switch and
- 55:01just being like just get someone for to be basically
- 55:04like a bit more present and like right okay i'm ready
- 55:07to go and and things like that can
- 55:09be really good just in terms of actually just just switching their mindset a
- 55:13little bit from work and life stresses and stuff like that to actually just
- 55:17being like right i'm focused on something because you can actually feel that
- 55:20can have the bigger impact sometimes rather than it be so much of an injurious
- 55:23thing and it just gets them to just be a bit more mindful a bit more present
- 55:26and they're just like right i'm ready to go for the session.
- 55:29Definitely. I think Sarah's point was interesting as well. When you have got somebody who's injured,
- 55:33and again, it depends on the person, like to quote like Greg Layman,
- 55:37because I know he loves being quoted, but the whole kind of poke the bear thing,
- 55:39like you're going to have a runner who maybe if they're coming back from injury,
- 55:42they're not going to touch the bear. They're going to be standing so far away.
- 55:45They're worried about it. They've got kinesophobia and maybe they do need some
- 55:49calf pumps and even a little bit of ankle dorsiflexion and just stuff to get them more confident.
- 55:55Then you've got someone of Shane's level of running, who's probably just
- 55:58going to to jump and hump the hump the bear to death because they're
- 56:01not scared of anything so they don't quite need
- 56:04they don't quite need the kind of
- 56:07warm-up and gentle handling as as the
- 56:09person who's less confident in their own body because they know what their body
- 56:12can do so i think again like you said chris it's psychological
- 56:15a lot of the warm-up i think is psychological and i've made mistakes
- 56:18in the past probably telling runners you don't need a warm-up don't you know
- 56:21this paper this paper this paper says in this paper this if the
- 56:24runner feels feels better for having their little warm-up and putting their
- 56:27heel up on a you know and doing their hamstring stretches
- 56:30and and adopting a range of movement they're not even
- 56:32going to use during their race if that makes them feel better you know
- 56:35what as long as they're doing everything else let them do it you know and it's i
- 56:38think that's worth bearing that in mind as well i think
- 56:41shane's idea get doing your exercise doing
- 56:44your rehab exercise after your warm-up is great
- 56:48because the runners always make time for their run they
- 56:51won't always make time for their rehab so if
- 56:54you can couple that together that's that's brilliant
- 56:57brilliant idea and i think actually to jump
- 57:01on top of that i often sometimes do the inverse if i've got a runner coming
- 57:04in and they are keen and they do do warm-ups one i ask them a lot of questions
- 57:09to back them into a corner you know or do you warm up before a race yeah yeah
- 57:13yeah okay why did you do that i want to feel better you know i move move better,
- 57:17all of this, and I'm kind of like.
- 57:19Accidentally pushing them towards being like, yeah, you should do some rehab
- 57:22stuff, you should do that, but even if they're not going to adhere with it,
- 57:27It's very, in my experience, maybe
- 57:30runners just listen to me because I'm horrible to them, I don't know.
- 57:35I think you can get away with it. They know your time. I bet you're on Strava
- 57:38and everything. I bet you're the sort of therapist who actually puts their results on Strava.
- 57:44Yeah, I do. Go on, show me your Strava and let me see what you're doing now.
- 57:49I think I sometimes do that. Okay, actually what Chris said,
- 57:53even a lot of us, no matter what our ability, we also run for a reason.
- 57:56It's a big part of actual genuine life management
- 57:59they form parts of our identities and then you get an
- 58:02injured runner who can't look just telling them
- 58:05they can go into a warm-up if it's a very slow jog
- 58:08and some drills and some strides it keeps
- 58:11them that sense of belonging and it keeps that sense of
- 58:14purpose and then it's just these little things that return
- 58:17hope and again bridge the gap from fear
- 58:20of movement and quite often i
- 58:23don't know i think that's more important than the actual tissue
- 58:27results or the injury results just letting somebody
- 58:30know that actually i don't need to be scared of an injury because there's
- 58:33still loads of stuff i can do whilst i'm injured and a
- 58:36lot of the time the things they learn by even just knowing they
- 58:39can go and do a warm-up that's they take that
- 58:42with them when they're back into full training anyway whatever the event and
- 58:46whatever the ability and you just you see that within your clients and that's
- 58:51well if anything it makes you a a bit more proud of a therapist that you can
- 58:55give them those things that they can use the rest of their life rather than
- 58:58just rehab them from a calf strain or something.
- 59:02Very nice. Look, time is unfortunately...
- 59:06Beating us once again what i'm going to do in a second and i always mean to tell you these.
- 59:11Warn you about this before i put you on the spot i'm going to just
- 59:14ask you in turn to just for
- 59:17one idea to put theory into practice so something you
- 59:20think therapists in a certain position could do next time they
- 59:22see their runner it might not apply to them but it will apply to somebody
- 59:25out there so just one theory into practice which you think of
- 59:28what we talked about tonight you would recommend therapists who want
- 59:31to work with runners or who already work with runners could do okay
- 59:34before we we do that i'm just going to say so you guys can think about that
- 59:37now okay i'm giving you your time now okay your general advice putting theory
- 59:40into practice whilst they're thinking about that and wishing that i'd warn them
- 59:43about that question beforehand then i'll just let the listeners know that next
- 59:48tuesday on the sports association podcast so this is tuesday april the 9th if
- 59:52you want to join us live at 8 p.m and just come to youtube or the sports association facebook page,
- 59:57there's going to be episode 93 and we're going to have a special on concussion.
- 1:00:00Causes risks and treatment with special guest Nicola Hunt.
- 1:00:04Nicola is the director and owner of PhysioCare Rehab, has got extensive research
- 1:00:09and experience in concussion and is starting later this year.
- 1:00:13In fact I think they've started now to offer some courses because it is an area,
- 1:00:16we've had Keith Burnett on the show before who a lot of ST members will know,
- 1:00:18it's an area where there's a lot of ignorance and misinformation and if you
- 1:00:22are working pitch side particularly obviously then it's an area you need to
- 1:00:25know about and clear up some of the myths out there.
- 1:00:27So we're going to to hear it from one of the specialists in that field,
- 1:00:31Nicola Hunt, next week, and also have details on face-to-face online courses
- 1:00:35that she's offering to try and improve the information that's out there.
- 1:00:37So that's going to be on Tuesday, April 9th, episode 193.
- 1:00:41If you want to join us live for that, like I say, just go onto YouTube or Facebook.
- 1:00:46Now we go back to episode 192. This is where you give your...
- 1:00:51One bit of theory into practice. Shane, you're the fastest here.
- 1:00:55We're not going to go in order of speed, so don't worry.
- 1:00:59Shane, what would be your one kind of like little bit of advice for people who
- 1:01:02either want to run or do work with runners out there? Does it have to be something we've just covered?
- 1:01:07No, it might be something that's just occurred to you, if you want. Write a training diary.
- 1:01:12Okay, nice. Now that we're in, we're going to have to have a part two of this.
- 1:01:15Okay, yeah, keep a training diary to monitor the load. That's good.
- 1:01:17Yeah, get a training diary.
- 1:01:19Over to you, Hannah. oh if it's something for people who want to start running
- 1:01:23i like resetting your personal best every year because you're getting older
- 1:01:26every year so don't race the person you were 10 years ago like 10 years ago
- 1:01:31me had no children and wasn't running a business,
- 1:01:34and had lots and lots of time for run and right now i don't have any of that so,
- 1:01:40take it year by year is what i like to do that's really really good that's really
- 1:01:44good unless Unless you're Matt Fitzgerald, of course. And then you go crazy things like that.
- 1:01:49Word out for Matt. If everyone's familiar with Matt Fitzgerald,
- 1:01:51he's got long-term COVID and really suffering from it. Can't even run.
- 1:01:54I mean, it's like just terrible.
- 1:01:56But what does he do? Well, he decides he's going to run, walk 100K or something
- 1:01:59in a time or something just to keep his body going. But amazing.
- 1:02:03But anyway, yeah, great advice, Hannah. Love it. Penny, what's your theory into
- 1:02:05practice that would advise for our listeners?
- 1:02:09When therapists deal with runners, They have to understand that there's a lot
- 1:02:12of elements coming into the psychology of the runner, not just the actual running.
- 1:02:18There's a lot of things that they need to consider.
- 1:02:21They have to ask a lot of questions, basically, like how is his sleep?
- 1:02:25Do they get any help with the children? Do they have time to allocate their training properly?
- 1:02:31Because I've had a recent experience of someone that they keep getting injuries
- 1:02:35and I found out that they only run twice a week.
- 1:02:38One short run, one long run. and we're talking about massive difference in in
- 1:02:43in distance and it's like well that makes sense why you're getting injured but
- 1:02:47it's because they have no other time to run,
- 1:02:50great okay so get to know your person lovely chris lots
- 1:02:54of questions yeah i guess i see more is
- 1:02:56it like questions around around them and also like
- 1:02:59what they understand the position that they're in
- 1:03:02right now when they're injured what that means to them so is this the first
- 1:03:06time they've been injured like what does that injury mean to them where where's
- 1:03:10their head out with it basically so that we can better understand that person
- 1:03:13in front of us and therefore the things that they they were quite to get from
- 1:03:17us as well and the time that we share together to help and move forward.
- 1:03:23Brilliant like it yeah talking talking talking to the
- 1:03:25runner in front of you and sarah i would
- 1:03:29say as a therapist go out and
- 1:03:31film races film lots of different types of
- 1:03:34runners get getting used to all the
- 1:03:37different running styles the the the
- 1:03:40problematic the problems that are going to arrive at your door um if you've
- 1:03:45if you've been out there already and and got yourself acclimatized to all the
- 1:03:50different types of runners you'll have a better chance of working you know successfully
- 1:03:55with them that's really cool yeah that's great yeah get out there and spend your time.
- 1:04:00Filming other runners and then and testing some of your
- 1:04:03theories you soon see don't you that everyone runs differently
- 1:04:06once you start filming these people especially when they're not
- 1:04:08injured and they're running faster than you ever will in a marathon and you realize how
- 1:04:11are they running like that and still doing a three-hour marathon that's ridiculous
- 1:04:15it's it does turn a lot of what we're told on its head
- 1:04:17when we realize that so yeah great advice get out there
- 1:04:20and film some runners wicked right well look i've kept
- 1:04:23you 10 minutes longer than i promised people but i'm so sorry for that
- 1:04:25but thank you so much for joining us thank you everyone for joining us in
- 1:04:28the live lounge as well thank you for your questions just wanted to mention a
- 1:04:31couple here that i didn't have time to mention so yeah immy tester thanks for
- 1:04:34joining us immy um immy says i would say trail runners get more falls pulled
- 1:04:38muscles because of difficult terrain rather than lack of capacity capacity gate
- 1:04:41type injuries in general definitely yeah we've got to consider the terrain rather
- 1:04:44than just their running form and if they're ready to deal with that terrain
- 1:04:47totally different set of.
- 1:04:49Necessities they're going to need the skills cecily hissel hey cecily how
- 1:04:52you doing cecily says that's a keen walker when i've suggested trying to walk
- 1:04:55into a runner i've had to pull out the daggers they've shot at me yeah it's
- 1:04:59crazy that again but it's knowing the person you know if you just suddenly launch
- 1:05:04it to them say yeah i'm going to suggest you walk and they they just walk out
- 1:05:07your door laughing, then it's your fault.
- 1:05:10You haven't broken to them gently and kind of, you know, open up that conversation in the right way.
- 1:05:14So yeah, great point, Cecily. And that was based on Chris's, wasn't it?
- 1:05:17Chris, people underestimate the power of walking in preparation for running,
- 1:05:22especially as part of rehab.
- 1:05:23Right, great. Thank you, guys. In the show notes, we will have information for
- 1:05:27all of our panel tonight.
- 1:05:28If you would like to be part of the STA panel for one of our first of the month
- 1:05:33episodes, remember next month.
- 1:05:36So that's going to be the first Tuesday in May. It's going to be Ask Us Anything
- 1:05:40therapy for team sports, something I shied away for for 16, 17 years because
- 1:05:46I don't like teams. It's been great. Please come on because I'm going to be
- 1:05:49very quiet with that one.
- 1:05:51We've got a couple of people who have signed up for it. But,
- 1:05:52yeah, we'd love to hear from you if you've got experience working with teams
- 1:05:55and you've got something you'd like to share and tips, that'd be great.
- 1:05:57And also, like I say, we're going to have therapy for swimmers.
- 1:05:59So if you work with a lot of swimmers, that'd be great. And therapy for cyclists.
- 1:06:03And if you can think of anything else, I mean, and I never thought of Canicross
- 1:06:06as much as I am now. So we will have a whole episode on Canicross.
- 1:06:09That'd be great. I'll talk to you later about that, Hannah. That'd be amazing.
- 1:06:12And loads of pictures, please.
- 1:06:14Loads of pictures. I'll just show pictures. That'll be the whole thing.
- 1:06:18That's what I want to see a lot of. That'd be really cool. I think there's a
- 1:06:21lot there to be discovered and it'd be great. Yes, we'll do that.
- 1:06:25Right. Thank you once again to my SDA panel.
- 1:06:28So thank you very much, Penny DeMoss. Thank you for joining us.
- 1:06:30And Sarah Clatworthy and Shane Robinson Robinson, and Hannah Tabram,
- 1:06:35not Tabram, as I initially said.
- 1:06:37And also, who have I missed out? And also Chris Kitson as well.
- 1:06:40Thank you very much for joining us.
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- 1:06:59Music.