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Yeah you'd wanna run most every day, 5 days/week if possible but you might have some things to fix to get there. That you feel better when running faster could be a clue that your IT band pain is actually psoas weakness. That knee lift is taking some load of the psoas... I also wonder if your quad and calf injury are related -- connection would be tight psoas entrapping a nerve at ~L2 and when quad compensates (to do the work of the psoas), your femoral nerve is getting squeezed also, though it could just be straight up week psoas. Did you atrain the quad at the start of a faster interval? That'd be a clue here also. the shin problem could be a limb-length issue related to the hip flexor issues. Couple of ways that might play out. the compression in the spine would also worsen the whole system. Have you thought about some traction table? Or some other sort of inversion therapy? Water running would have a similar effect decompressing the spine and sciatic nerve. from what you report of the recent training, you need to get into the pool and do your running there, though I would not be surprised at all to hear you have no troubles on stairs which might actually help your back. Either way you have to correct the strength ratios in the hip flexors. A 2kg medicine ball might be useful to test the hypothesis, as you can massage the psoas by putting your weight on a 2kg ball set to press into the psoas, just next to your spine. (you would be in a prone position for this) If you email me I can write out a more thorough explanation for those strengthening exercises. dsrunner@juno.com |
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review this: http://www.squidoo.com/psoas |
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Though the walking is a fine idea, it will not solve the underlying problems this kid is up against. Eventually he has to train. As for coaches, a good one would help his chances; a bad one would hurt his chances, so we probably agree on that. If "the general" opinion is that everybody including the OP needs high mileage to succeed in middle distances, then yes, I'm contrary to that (I'm more in the James Li/Bill Bowerman/Peter Coe camp), though I'm not the only poster here challenging the LetsRun dogma. |
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honestly i didnt even know what a Psoas was. could be part of my problem, but hard to tell. also, i said that about crossfit just because i didnt want a whole bunch of crossfit wackjobs jumping all over my thread. i do understand that it is good all around body training though, and i am not totally against the sport itself, just against the people who tend to represent it. if there is a training plan that has shown results with running fast track times that includes crossfit training, by all means, post it. |
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