Prehab
We all know the word rehab. Whether it’s a house or our running body, it’s working with something that has fallen apart, or at least not functioning properly, and making it whole or materially better – restoration! Prehab is something of a contraction of preventative rehab. Meaning, if we do things to ward off injury, we may avoid the need for rehab. Makes sense, of course, and we could agree nobody wants to deal with an injury. We just want to run! So, what to do? First, there are some pretty basic exercises that can/should be done on a near-daily basis. They include eccentric heel dips — (see November 10, 2015 blog post), against-the-wall calf stretches, standing quad stretches — pulling your bent leg back from the ankle and feeling the stretch in the hip flexors, rope pulls – lying on your back and pulling your leg up with three progressive 15-20 second pulls, weighted knee extensions – most easily done on the leg extension machine, and goblet or wall squats. See the Runner Resources – Resistance Exercises section on my website for descriptions of several of these. Nothing really fancy with this battery, but they strengthen and stretch multiple … Continue reading