Avoiding Injury
Avoiding Injury
Millions of people use running to keep fit, to reduce the stresses of everyday life and to help them to achieve their sporting ambitions. Irrespective of the level you run, whether you are a recreational runner who runs to keep fit, a serious amateur who likes to participate in races, or an elite athlete, who competes at the highest level you can always improve your running technique.
Every year between 25% and 50% of runners will sustain an injury that will require them to change the way they run or train or to seek assistance in physiotherapy or medication, most of these injuries are preventable. They are not mainly due to trauma like you would get in football or rugby, but due to repetitive small loads being applied repeatedly over many runs. The loads are due to incorrect running biomechanics.
Most of the injuries that runners get are because of landing shock. The running style and stride length that many novice runners take is quite different to experienced and elite athletes. There are a few common weaknesses that all beginners share: The slow cadence leads to spending longer in the air, the longer you are in the air the higher you move your body mass and the harder you hit the ground on landing.
Many of us have never been taught how to run. We think it’s something that we will pick-up naturally and we don’t realise until the pain begins that we are actually running badly and which can lead to injuries.
Running well and running fast is a skill and not just something you were born with and just like any other skill it can be taught. We teach hundreds of people every year how to run more efficiently so they can avoid and reduce injuries.
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