I’m sure all those great exercises and I’m going to definitely do them but for me all my running problems disappeared when I made this one small change. I stopped landing on my heels. Those heel strikes were murder on me. Once I learned to land on the balls of my feet, no more shin splints or runners knee. I went from running once a week, it took me exactly a week to recover, to running 3 to 4 times a week.
A good warm up before running is key, even just a few minutes of stretch can help and improve the performance during running. Also is good to take the first 1 mile/km as a warm up too with an ease pace as usually, when starting and feeling fresh one goes too fast on the first mile and can lead to an injury. Great tips on stretching and mobility exercises, thanks for sharing those. I used to have issues with the knee feeling some pain, now everything is good. Just a bit pain on my feet when running long distances, maybe I am having planer fasciitis.
Thank you Kristi! Absolutely love your content. Ever since I started ibex training the lift and run program my running has felt amazing. My knees don’t hurt like they used to do. I’m so grateful for you and all you do for this community. So which brings me to this question? I do CrossFit and I like to compete in CrossFit as well but I also want to improve my running and get faster. How would you balance your training or what is the best program you would recommend in the ibex app for this? Thank you 🙏
Hey! That is so cool, we love to hear that!! We have a ton of member in similar situations and for most we find adding 2-3 crossfit workouts per week is the sweet spot were you get the benefit without feeling beat up. the close you get to a comp the more spicfic your training needs to be and the more crossfit you need to be doing. I hope this is helpful, feel free to shoot us an email also!
Do you guys ever swim? I heard you use to do triathlons. I’d like to see some training content in the water. Just throwing it out there. And cycling. The Tour de France starts soon!
Hi Kristi, I do wall walks every other week, why is it that I again start getting scared of the moment and not able to touch my chest to the wall? Is it bcoz I am not practicing it each week?
