1709: Dealing With Injuries As An Athlete by Flora Beverly of Food Fitness Flora on Treating Recovery Like Training

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🗓️ 30 April 2022

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Flora Beverley of Food Fitness Flora talks about dealing with injuries as an athlete Episode 1709: Dealing With Injuries As An Athlete by Flora Beverly of Food Fitness Flora on Treating Recovery Like Training Flora Beverley is a fitness model, blogger and social media consultant based in London. She is passionate about healthy living and loves to take part in physical challenges throughout the year, recently completing the Tokyo marathon, two boxing fights and part of ‘the world’s toughest island race’, TRIBE Run For Love. When not in the outdoors, Flora creates food, fitness and sustainability content for her social media, and writes for various publications. Alongside her love of food and fitness, Flora speaks passionately about sustainability and mental health, using her platform to disseminate information and myth bust, encouraging others to speak up too. Using her background in Biology, she aims to back up everything she writes with scientific evidence and reduce the amount of misinformation online. The original post is located here: https://foodfitnessflora.blog/2020/12/22/dealing-with-injuries-as-an-athlete/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Interested in advertising on the show? Visit https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalHealthDailyDietNutritionFitness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Health Daily, episode 1709, dealing with injuries as an athlete by Flora
0:05.8	Beverly of Food Fitnessflora.blog. And I'm Dr. Neal, your very own personal narrator.
0:12.3	Hey there, happy Saturday and welcome back to another weekend edition of Optimal Health Daily.
0:17.3	This is where I read to you from some of the best health and fitness blogs on the web,
0:21.2	and always with a bit of my commentary at the end. And with that, let's keep this intro nice and
0:26.1	short and jump right into today's post as we optimize your life.
0:34.4	Dealing with Injuries as an Athlete by Flora Beverly of Food Fitnessflora.blogue. At university, I undertook a
0:43.3	short course on sports psychology, hoping to garner some insight into what makes pro athletes tick
0:49.3	and how the rest of us can improve our own psychology to improve our sport. The topic that stuck with me
0:55.1	most, however, was talking about the effects of injuries on athletes, and not just professional ones.
1:01.4	Since sports have strong mental as well as physical benefits, the stress and anxiety caused by
1:06.6	injury can sometimes be almost incapacitating. Figuring out how to keep fears and potentially serious mental health problems at bay is both
1:15.8	vital and complex. While I'm no expert, I have an unfortunate amount of personal experience
1:22.0	dealing with recurring injuries, namely IT-band syndrome caused by doing too much too soon in most athletes,
1:30.2	but initiated and exacerbated almost solely by road running for me.
1:35.4	My first trainer told me to stop running, in favor of all other sports,
1:40.1	which did nothing to help the actual problem, since I was always going to run. I just needed to know
1:46.1	how. And so commenced six years of recurring injury. After a huge flare-up during my training for
1:54.0	and running the Tokyo Marathon in early 2019, I worked with my second trainer, Zoe, from Physio Motion,
2:00.3	based in London, to figure out the cause
2:02.6	of my particular injury, weak glutes, poor running form to compensate, and to work on those issues.
2:10.0	Since then, I've been able to run two ultramarathons and 50 kilometers weeks on trail, big for me,
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