If you feel short of breath or get side stitches often while you’re running one problem you may be having is that you’re taking shallow breaths using your chest rather than using your diaphragm. If you can use your diaphragm muscle to pull down and help to fully fill your lungs, you’ll get better oxygen …
Running Injury Spotlight: Stress Fractures What are Stress Fractures? Stress fractures are tiny breaks in a bone that usually occur after loading the bone in the same (abnormal) way over and over again. Stress fractures of the legs affect athletes that perform repetitive movements, especially runners. Female runners are at a higher risk for stress …
This is a brief video gait running analysis of a marathon runner with right calf, left hip and low back pain with running. In this video, you will see how her running gait causes her pain and how to fix the pain through video running gait analysis.
For beginning runners, back pain or other pains can cause a lot of issues. Usually, this is an indicator that your core muscles are weak or not working correctly. If you have never really done any core work before, this strengthening is a great way to get started. If you think that you are pretty …