Every tuesday i do explosive hill reps on a short steep hill .The result is no more achilles tendonitis.Why?

Percy,

I see you whooping on Ritz in that last photo.

Igy

Dathan does look a little like Herb.

There are 4 new runners who all have what it takes to join the team:

1) The Scot Callum Hawkins

2) The Aussie Patrick Tiernan

3) The Scottish-Irish Laura Muir

4) The American Brie Oakley

I advise my runners to do this

It really is the eccentric loading. I have had Achilles issues that started about 2 years ago. Started eccentric loading about 6 months after trying everything else. I do eccentric loading exercises almost every day and have been pain free for nearly 6 months. It is likely that the method you use stimulated the area to work harder to heal. Tendons don't get the blood supply other parts of the body get and therefore take much longer to heal.I don't think the method below would have worked for me, however. But it's great that it worked for you.

Running help wrote:

Every monday is a recovery day of 5 .Every tuesday i do explosive hill pick ups 10 or so on a short steep hill of only 60 meters.This is in the middle of an 8 mile or so run.The result is no more achilles pain.I have followed this plan for close to 3 months.Why does this work?Before most of my runs were on a flat courses and i was plagued by achilles pain.

"Hot new?"

High jumpers on Swedish National Track Team were doing those in 79.

Considering the age of the earth, that seems new to me.

Because you are stretching the Achilles and relieving the stress on it. But the same can be accomplished by doing regular heel dip exercises to stretch the Achilles.

Onthetophill wrote:

"Hot new?"

High jumpers on Swedish National Track Team were doing those in 79.

Considering the age of the earth, that seems new to me.

This works on so many levels.

My take on this is that it’s a glute issue. Your glutes are being used more during the hill pick ups and this in turn means the glutes are used more on other runs. The book Anatomy for Runners indicates that achilles issues can result from inadequate use of the glutes during the running stride.

A couple of years ago I had some left achilles pain that was caused by my left glute not working properly. Concentrating on using my left glute more while running solved my left achilles pain.

OP is definitely trolling to get people go go injur themselves. I have been a PT for over 17 years, I would never ever recommend my patients go sprint up a hill to fix an Achillies issue, in fact most of my patients come to me because they injured their Achilles running HILLS.

Fix and prevent can be very different things

Percy Cerutty (registered) wrote:

Dathan does look a little like Herb.

There are 4 new runners who all have what it takes to join the team:

1) The Scot Callum Hawkins

2) The Aussie Patrick Tiernan

3) The Scottish-Irish Laura Muir

4) The American Brie Oakley

Coach Percy, what do you think of the kiwi twin brothers Jake and Zane Robertson? They seem like they would've flourished under your crazy chicken wing.

Running help wrote:

Every monday is a recovery day of 5 .Every tuesday i do explosive hill pick ups 10 or so on a short steep hill of only 60 meters.This is in the middle of an 8 mile or so run.The result is no more achilles pain.I have followed this plan for close to 3 months.Why does this work?Before most of my runs were on a flat courses and i was plagued by achilles pain.

Anything else explosive happen on Tuesdays? If you know what I mean.

I hate all Kiwi (except Nick Willis and Nikki Hamblin) runners.

Kiwis are from... New Zealand.

Arthur Lydiard was from New Zealand.

He became a lot more famous than me.

People are always talking about "Lydiard training."

People never talk about "Cerutty training."

I was never popular on facebook, twitter, or Instagram.

That made me go mad... and I have hated all Kiwi runners ever since.

DrWillMattix wrote:

OP is definitely trolling to get people go go injur themselves. I have been a PT for over 17 years, I would never ever recommend my patients go sprint up a hill to fix an Achillies issue, in fact most of my patients come to me because they injured their Achilles running HILLS.

You are joking Right?

Mike Manley had Brad and others doing uphill sand repeats on the dunes in Florence, Oregon in the early 1990s-- when Brad was still skinny. Heinous workouts. Who did Manley get it from?

Running help wrote:

Every monday is a recovery day of 5 .Every tuesday i do explosive hill pick ups 10 or so on a short steep hill of only 60 meters.This is in the middle of an 8 mile or so run.The result is no more achilles pain.I have followed this plan for close to 3 months.Why does this work?Before most of my runs were on a flat courses and i was plagued by achilles pain.

I talked to Arthur Lydiard for about an hour one time once while he was waiting outside for his ride (right after the national schools champs and there was a traffic jam) and during this coversation I told him about my achilles feeling great after a step session and hill strides (but my quads ached) but after a couple of weeks on the flat it hurt again. He said that the calf muscle learnt to contract and time-in better on hills, while the foot-ankle-achilles were stretched at greater angle than on the flat. Giving better biomechanics.