The second twelve week plan to educate and guide you from injury. Continuing the journey from identifying your personal areas of development and giving you the tools to address them. Running from injury towards improved performance through consistency.
This e-book was written with both recreational and elite runners in mind. Both groups are runners whether they believe it or not, and therefore susceptible to injuries again whether they like it or not. I wanted to focus on drills where the athlete looks at more than reducing their injury risk, but also allowing themselves to develop and perform at the highest standard their body will let them. Eagle eyes will notice this is the same paragraph from the introduction to Unlace the Brace. Its not that I am in anyway lazy, but the message is still as pertinent today as it was then. Made by a runner for runners. Delivering a level of knowledge to help you be in control of your running journey wherever the destination may be.
Performance is important for us all, but performance is built on consistency. Consistency of training means the consistency of doing the right things over and over again to build capacity. The increased capacity can then accept more load, more load accepted allows a development in strength. Breaking routine/consistency reverses the previous sequence of events. The biggest interruption in training comes from injury. Injuries by direct trauma, injuries by micro-trauma (chronic overload), asking the body to repeatedly do things it doesn’t have the capacity to do and not recovering adequately from loading before introducing further load.
Over the six-twelve weeks you will see the structure of the class is consistent. The content varies from week to week but there are definitive sections to the class. Firstly warm up, move well drills, targeted running muscle groups, core elements, plyometrics and cool down. The importance through all these is to understand why we do them.