Coach James Dunne on Injury Prevention for Bigger Runners

The Strength Running Podcast

Jason Fitzgerald

Health & Fitness, 10k, Beginnerrunning, Marathontraining, Fitness, Injuryprevention, Marathon, Halfmarathon, Running, Sports

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🗓️ 9 March 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

James doesn't look like the "typical" runner - he's 6'6" and 250 pounds. A former professional rugby player, James has a degree in Sport Rehabilitation and is fully insured member of the British Association of Sport Rehabilitators and Trainers (BASRaT).

He's the founder of Kinetic-Revolution and has an ongoing fascination with the functional biomechanics of running (in other words, how you move while running).

In this far-reaching discussion, we talk about quite a few issues:

Should overweight runners be more worried about injury?
Is gaining weight more important for injury risk than being consistently overweight?
Does training for weight loss differ than training for a race? How?

Enjoy my conversation with James (and don't miss the announcement at the end of the show!).

Transcript

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0:00.0	Ready, set, go!
0:04.6	This is episode 18 with sports rehabilitation expert, former professional rugby player,
0:10.1	and consultant to professional soccer and rugby teams, Mr. James Dunn. Thanks for joining me today. My name is Jason Fitzgerald, the head coach of strength
0:30.3	running.com, and we've got a great show for you today. Joining me as a fellow coach
0:34.6	and admitted injury prevention geek James Dunn.
0:38.3	James is the founder of kineticrevolution.com, and he specializes in identifying and correcting
0:44.6	dysfunctional movement patterns that either cause injuries or reduce your efficiency as an endurance runner.
0:51.5	James holds a degree in sports rehabilitation and has a special interest
0:55.3	in the functional biomechanics of running. In other words, how you move while you're running.
1:01.1	And today we're talking about the special considerations that bigger runners need to remember when it
1:06.1	comes to staying healthy. There's a lot of resources and background on the Strength Running blog,
1:10.4	so be sure to check
1:11.3	out the blog post about this episode as well at strengthrunning.com slash blog. And also,
1:17.3	before we start, if you haven't already seen it, over the past few weeks, I've been working with a lot
1:21.9	of professional runners to get their favorite injury prevention strategies and tips and tricks and tactics so that you can see
1:29.4	exactly how the best runners in the world stay healthy. I called it the little black book of
1:35.2	prevention and recovery. And it's free. Just go to strengthrunning.com slash elites with an S,
1:41.4	it's plural. Strengthrunning.com slash elites to pick up the free guide all right let's
1:47.2	dive in guys i hope you enjoy my chat with james dunn are you six four six six two fifty six six two
1:54.5	fifty you are quite literally two of me i'm about 125 pounds oh jesus Jesus, okay. Yeah, okay. Maths works. Talk about stereotypical
2:04.4	runner's body. I pretty much look exactly like Dathan Ritz and I. Okay, cool. So, I guess let's start
2:12.0	with, you know, let's talk about injury prevention from a really general perspective.
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