The checklist of things to NEVER get injured

simple solution wrote:

Muebele wrote:

I wish I could wake up without an Alarm clock. But I got places to be!!!! and kids...

Go to sleep earlier then.

Kidless Moran or bad husband, not sure which.

And don't get me started on the abortion advocates wrote:

Don't Stop Believin' wrote:

Never injure people's feelings about their precious little belief in god.

I am more concerned about what atheists, agnostics and others opposed to traditional religions would do: those regimes, in the 20th century alone, killed hundreds of millions of innocent human beings.

Did Hitler/Mao/Stalin go to war to promote atheism? No, they most certainly did not. What we should definitely fear are totalitarian regimes of any sort, whether religious theocracies, national socialist, communist, etc.

The atheism of those regimes was really not atheism at all and you would know this if you'd take your blinders off. Those regimes were not happy simply being the 'Primary' arm of the state, they wanted to be the only arm of the state. Religion was not the only institution persecuted under those regimes; trade unions, education, fraternal organizations not aligned with the state, etc were all either banned or had leaders replaced with state controlled puppets.

I hear this all the time from christians and it is the height of anti-intellectualism to suggest 'atheism/agnosticism' were motivating forces for the actions of communists and nazis during world war 2 and in the '70s under Pol Pot.

Try again.

I avoid running outside when it gets cold, below about 15 or 20 degrees fahrenheit. Most of my injuries in life have occurred between December and March and I find my body reacts poorly when the temperature gets that low.

In order:

1. Avoid cheap shoes.

2. Avoid exceeding average BMI

3. Stretch, especially calves after warning up; hips, quads and hamstrings as needed.

To avoid illness:

1. Sleep. Avoid ever getting fewer than 7 hours, and take extra precautions if you do.

2. Don't race workouts and don't run fast on easy days, even if you're "running by feel."

NEVER keep running when you feel an asymmetric pain that doesn't go away quickly, i.e., a pain in one calf but not the other calf. Slow or even stop to assess the possible injury. Slowly resume running. If the pain continues, abort the workout and walk back.

I can't count the number of times I've heard someone say something like, "I felt this sharp pain in my leg two miles into my run... so I hobbled through the next ten miles to finish my workout. Now, it's been two weeks and I can't run at all!"

I abort a workout about once a month due to little twinges that could turn into major injuries if I kept running.

One workout isn't going to make or break your season, but one injury can definitely break your season or your training schedule.

If you have kids, make sure they clean up their toys. I don't how many times I've been sidelined from rolling my ankle stepping on a Tonka truck or My Little Pony. Especially during peak mileage or intensity it's more likely. I actually don't mind running-related injuries that much but this stuff drives me crazy.

fisky wrote:

NEVER keep running when you feel an asymmetric pain that doesn't go away quickly, i.e., a pain in one calf but not the other calf.

I abort a workout about once a month due to little twinges that could turn into major injuries if I kept running.

One workout isn't going to make or break your season, but one injury can definitely break your season or your training schecdule.

Thanks for this! It is a smart guideline.

Reminds me that “common sense really isn’t all that common”, as i definitely have run another mile or two in similar situations.

Ha. Ha. Ha, wrote:

simple solution wrote:

Go to sleep earlier then.

Kidless Moran or bad husband, not sure which.

Neither of the above. I'm someone who simply knows how to manage my time. I make tradeoffs where I need them. Perhaps instead of accusing others of being deficient in some way you can look inward at your own failures and figure out why you can't manage to balance whatever it is that's important to you. If you want to get to bed early enough and still be a good husband and parent, that's perfectly doable. You just need to structure your schedule and learn how to say no to things that are below the line. It's not difficult; it just requires a bit of planning and fortitude.

dritius wrote:

- SLEEP!!! (As Nick Symmonds put it, never wake up to an alarm clock)

You must be in hs and not doubling. Excepting pro runners, very few people have the luxury of waking up naturally. Besides restaurant staff who only work evenings and nights, I can't think of a single profession that would allow you to wake up naturally every day.

fisky wrote:

NEVER keep running when you feel an asymmetric pain that doesn't go away quickly, i.e., a pain in one calf but not the other calf. Slow or even stop to assess the possible injury. Slowly resume running. If the pain continues, abort the workout and walk back.

I can't count the number of times I've heard someone say something like, "I felt this sharp pain in my leg two miles into my run... so I hobbled through the next ten miles to finish my workout. Now, it's been two weeks and I can't run at all!"

I abort a workout about once a month due to little twinges that could turn into major injuries if I kept running.

One workout isn't going to make or break your season, but one injury can definitely break your season or your training schedule.

QFT. I've had a few times where something suddenly hurt. I've walked it in worried I was injured, but was fine the next day. The only time I've been injured is running through sharp pain.

Don't wear the wrong shoes. If you are a supinator make sure you are in a neutral/cushioning shoe.

fisky wrote:

NEVER keep running when you feel an asymmetric pain that doesn't go away quickly, i.e., a pain in one calf but not the other calf. Slow or even stop to assess the possible injury. Slowly resume running. If the pain continues, abort the workout and walk back.

Wow, this is an awesome tip. I never realized that pain existing in one body part but not its corresponding part is more likely to be linked to an injury rather than soreness or fatigue. Such a simple and seemingly obvious point but one I have overlooked in the past.

Any sort of joint injury that won't heal 100%. Damaged cartilage, ligament tears, they'll never be the same again.

Don't often injure a bi-articulate muscle like R. femoris, gastrocnemius or B. femoris if you like to run fast. Never train through a strain to any of them.