A Physical Therapist Tells How to Sidestep Injury

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Calling all runners: This is a must-listen episode if you want to avoid getting sidelined by an injury! With hosts Sarah Bowen Shea and Tish Hamilton, the guest, Chris Johnson, PT, a physical therapist and coach, details: -what “movement snacks” are + why they help your workouts; -the value of walking (or marching!) breaks in your runs; -a practical approach to strength training when prepping for a race; -the critical value of rest + sleep; and, -how to (re)discover the love of running. Sarah shares a few stories from a recent trip to the desert before she and Tish welcome the physical therapist to the show around 11:02. When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR. We appreciate your—and their—support! Run the Rose City! Use code AMR20 for $20 off registration at portlandmarathon.com Get 20% off, plus free shipping, on all IQBAR products by texting AMR to 64-000 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	On October 5th, step up to a starting line at the Portland Marathon.
0:03.7	Thanks to a new sponsorship, all race participants receive Nike branded race shirts, pre-race opportunities, and an elevated race day experience throughout the course.
0:12.7	Use code AMR 20 for $20 off registration at Portlandmarathon.com.
0:24.6	Welcome. Marathon.com. Welcome to another mother runner.
0:26.3	This is Sarah Bowen-Shay.
0:27.5	I'm joined by Tish Hamilton.
0:29.0	Hello, Tish.
0:29.9	Hi, Sarah.
0:30.5	How are you doing today?
0:32.1	Good, good.
0:33.5	I realized the other day, though, I haven't really talked about my Palm Springs trip.
0:39.3	So I want to share about that.
0:41.7	Tell us about the Paul Streams trip.
0:44.2	Yes.
0:45.4	So I'm definitely not one of those people that does girlfriend getaways, just mainly because I, you know, I travel for work.
0:53.9	I travel now to see my son in
0:55.8	musical theater and um I guess when it comes right down to it like I'm just a cheap skate but
1:02.2	and I live in a place where a lot of people come to visit so I like that so then I get to see
1:09.0	my friends without um having to hop on a plane to do it.
1:11.8	So anyway, but I have this good friend Kate, who I know from rowing back in the 1990s when I
1:17.8	lived in San Francisco and Kate lives in San Francisco. So, and she's a teacher. So it was her spring
1:23.3	break. And so we have a mutual friend, John, who lives down in Desert Hot Springs,
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