Injury Master
gruffman wrote:
I completely believe in making feet stronger - since I started doing calf raises and standing on one foot for periods of time I have been injury free and feel really strong. hard to explain. able to push off better. and my feet shrunk 1/2 size.
Yeah in my experience a lot of alignment issues are from a flexible arch, which allows your ankle to collapse leading to pronation. So ideally if you could strengthen your arch you could achieve a neutral gait. Unfortunately Ben never mentioned what exercises he did, but it sounded like it was a big part of his routine.
One other tip he had was that he always uses the same 65 minute warmup routine for every hard session, be it a track workout or a race. He said this lets him go into autopilot before a race while also ensuring that he gets everything done that he needs to. Wish I had thought of that in high school...