“Exercise is good for your health, but like everything else, it can be overdone.”
Even the most durable athletes get injured from time to time. What’s important is recognising you have an injury, identifying how it happened and learning how to manage it so you can get back on track.
The majority of injuries derived from endurance training will be as a result of overuse. To say that we can avoid injuries altogether is unrealistic. However, with proper management we can greatly reduce the risk of injury and stay active. My background in sports injury treatment combined with strength and conditioning coaching and advanced training planning gives me great scope for understanding training loads. Proper load management is step one for reducing injury from training.
Running, cycling and swimming all require a lot of use from the body. The list of overuse injuries is staggering - runners knee, IT band syndrome, shin splints, back pain, swimmers shoulder, rotator cuff pain, sprains, strains and pains - to name a few. Strength and conditioning is a key element in combating such overuse injuries. Skilled guidance and assessments for movement during exercise helps athletes improve their economy and reduce stress on the working muscles and joints.
Online videos with specific exercise drills for your injury will be emailed to your account so we can keep moving forward with your running, triathlon, endurance or strength programs.
Should the injury require a more hands on approach, my own sports injury clinic (located here) is open by appointment only. Bookings can be made below for assessments, strength plans and physical therapy sessions.
“The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.”
