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Avoiding Injuries


© Clive Maxwell Prestt

Apr 30, 2002


AIM:

My aim is not to teach you knowledge, but to enable learning to take place through an immersion into the topic. So please read the questions and do the exercises, and then apply them to your own situation as you think and feel is best.

INRODUCTION

1. An interesting comment from Barry Davis whilst commentating on a football match on British television involving Aston Villa full-back Alan Wright. Davis observed that he was an unsung hero because he had not missed a match for 86 games, 'by far the best in the Premiership' (British top professional league). What does this tell you about looking after yourself and avoiding injury?

2. Have you ever been injured, and if so, how did this happen on each occasion?

3. Why do you think you got injured - what were the contributory factors?

RUNNER'S PSYCHE

4. Given that the main psychological characteristic in many long-distance runners is the sheer bloody-minded determination to complete the distance thereby pushing themselves hard, and even using such terms as 'running yourself into the ground', is this likely to

a) Make you avoid injury?

b) Increase your chances of getting injured?

c) Increase your chances of avoiding injuries?

d) Definitely cause you to get injured?

Link to avoid overtraining: http://www.realrunner.com/ukandeurope/me...

STRETCHING

5. Most books about running show you stretching exercises for each muscle group of your body because you muscles shorten after exercise to give you that familiar feeling of stiffness. Do you do stretching exercises:

a) When you get up in the morning?

b) Before set off each time you go running?

c) After you have finished your run?

d) When you go to bed?

Doing stretching exercises can be time consuming, but you really do need to work them into your daily routine in order to keep your body supple and less injury prone. See http://kicksports.com/good/stretch.shtml. And http://www.realrunner.com/ukandeurope/me...

OVERTRAINING and RECOVERY

6. When you train, when you finish a run or training session, do you feel:

a) Pleasantly tired? b) Heavy, tired, strained, wooden or leaden legs?

7. Should the answer to question 7 is b) Heavy, tired, strained, wooden or leaden legs, are you more likely to get injured, or less likely to get injured, or doesn't it matter?

8. In a similar vein to question 8, if you have not recovered physically from the previous day's running, and you go out and run again, and especially if you do this regularly, will this:

a) Make you avoid injury?

b) Increase your chances of getting injured?

c) Increase your chances of avoiding injuries?

     

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2.   May 2, 2002 12:28 AM
Interesting article. Do you have any experience or information on Morton's neuroma?

-- posted by JButler
1.   May 1, 2002 4:53 PM
I can see this topic becoming very popular and I wish you the best of success with it. Shout if you need any help :)

-- posted by thebattwoman



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