Episode 77: How to Get Injured: 5 Training Errors That Spike Your Injury Risk
The Strength Running Podcast
Jason Fitzgerald
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2018
⏱️ 17 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Running injuries are formally called repetitive stress injuries. Do the wrong thing (over a prolonged period of time) and you can rest assured that you’re probably going to get hurt.
Here’s a great example from outside the running world. Recently I interviewed Staci Ardison in our monthly interview series for Team Strength Running about weight lifting. She’s become a very competitive powerlifter over the last few years and asked about injuries in the weight room. What causes them? How do you stay healthy while lifting?
Her answer was surprising. It wasn’t a neat new trick or fancy wrist strap for dead lifts.
It had nothing to do with what shoes you’re wearing (in fact, she frequently lifts barefoot or whether or not you were wearing compression socks.
Her answer was this:
Not doing things correctly. Don’t ego lift.
How simple. And also, how accurate.
In the sport of weightlifting (just like in running), injuries are caused by doing things you’re not prepared to do.
I want to provide a bit more detail on and examples of these training errors so let’s dive into the top 5 mistakes we make as runners.
For more on injury prevention, get our free email series here.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Ready, set go. |
| 0:04.7 | This is episode 77 where I'm going to highlight five common training errors that increase your injury |
| 0:10.0 | risk. |
| 0:11.0 | So you can train smarter and get better results. |
| 0:13.0 | Hey everyone welcome back to the strength-running podcast I'm your host |
| 0:25.6 | Jason Fitzgerald and it's usually my job on this show to interview high-level |
| 0:30.2 | runners coaches authors nutritionists, scientists, and other experts to help you |
| 0:36.1 | improve your running. |
| 0:37.5 | But today you're only going to hear from me. |
| 0:39.1 | I want to share with you a few of the most common training errors that I've seen runners make since I started coaching back in 2010 |
| 0:47.6 | and I think this is going to be interesting because I have this really |
| 0:56.4 | Interesting different job than many of the coaches out there. I coach virtually and have a really big running blog so I get to talk with a lot of runners every single day and rather than working with a small group of say 10 to 20 runners I can work with hundreds of runners and have direct conversations with even more. |
| 1:12.5 | And so this lets me speak at scale with tens of thousands of runners every year and see |
| 1:17.8 | how they're training, what they're thinking about, how they're setting goals, what goals they make, why they make the training decisions |
| 1:25.0 | that they do and what motivates them. And for an amateur psychologist like me I love this. |
| 1:31.5 | This is like walking through a marathon expo and talking to 50 runners every day |
| 1:36.8 | about what they're doing. So with that said, I want to share some of the big trends that I'm seeing |
| 1:42.2 | in the running community on the topic of injuries |
| 1:45.3 | and how to design training that helps you stay healthy. And let's start with a little pop quiz. |
| 1:51.1 | Do you know why most runners get injured? When I surveyed my |
| 1:55.3 | Twitter audience recently, I was surprised by some of the responses. Now to |
| 1:59.9 | answer this question, many runners are going to go through a laundry list of issues |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jason Fitzgerald, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Jason Fitzgerald and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.