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Runners love to hate their IT bands. Trouble there can keep you off the road, the runner’s worst nightmare.
Short for iliotibial, the IT is a long band of connective tissue on the outside of each leg, running from hip to knee. When it gets inflamed, it usually causes pain on the outside of the knee. But it can also cause pain at the hip or lower back.
(more…)Link to original study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28365296 Original Study Title: Running as a Key Lifestyle Medicine for Longevity. Journal: Progressive Cardiovascular Disease While the doctors here aren’t totally surprised to see an article like this one go online, we do like the idea that walking or running at a high level for around two hours of time weekly […]
I teach this exact exercise several times a day as well as a few variations almost on the daily since the basis of most of our patients are runners. This exercise can never be done slowly enough, anyone can do this movement quickly but slow down and act like you have a hot cup of […]
Recently while watching the Run856 chatter on Facebook we saw a great deal of back and forth about just about everyone being slightly off when looking at their watch time and distance versus their race chip time and the known and verified race distance. One of the Run856 users shared this explanation from the USATF: […]
LINK: https://runsignup.com/Race/NJ/AtlanticCity/StPatsBoardwalk10miler5krun Place: Chickie’s and Pete’s at the Tropicana 2831 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, NJ 08401 Atlantic City, NJ US 08401 Description: 39TH ANNUAL ST. PAT’S BOARDWALK 10 MILER AND 5K SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 2017 @ 10:00 AM (EDT) 5k & 10 MILER course 2017 is going to change because we have a new location. Pricing […]