Mountain Bike Injury Prevention and Recovery
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Today we talk with cycling coach Ben Turits about common mountain bike injuries and how to prevent them. Ben shares his tips for dealing with knee, back, neck, and arm pain through exercise, stretching, bike fit, and recovery.
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| 0:30.1 | Hi everybody. Welcome to the single tracks podcast. This is Leah Barber here and today I have Jeff and Coach Ben with us again, and we're going to be talking about injury training. |
| 0:43.1 | Now, Coach Ben has some advice for how to keep riding for a long time, not just for like a long length of time. |
| 0:49.5 | He is an endurance coach after all, but for years to come. |
| 0:53.1 | There's a lot of trails left out there to be |
| 0:55.0 | explored in your lifetime, and to keep going, you've got to think about injury prevention. |
| 0:59.7 | In particular, chronic or overuse injuries rather than those injuries suffered from a bad crash |
| 1:05.6 | or a fall. And I can hear those eye rolls coming from all you young bucks out there, but injury can happen to anyone, the young, the old, slow, fast, beginners, recreational riders, and even racers. |
| 1:17.8 | And once it happens, you'll be wishing you put some of these tips into practice. |
| 1:22.4 | Now, before we get into those tips, I just want to say we're not doctors. |
| 1:30.2 | Okay? So if you are injured, you're suffering from some of these chronic pains of nagging injuries. Please go seek some professional guidance. |
| 1:36.2 | We're just here to give you tips. We're mountain bikers just like you. We suffer from some of |
| 1:40.7 | these problems. And if you have something that's been bothering you with your |
| 1:44.5 | body for a long time, it's best to go get some professional advice. So let's start. We've seen a lot of |
| 1:51.4 | common injuries on the forums at single tracks. And I want to talk to Ben a little bit about |
| 1:56.9 | some of the common injuries and maybe what we can do about them and what causes them. |
| 2:02.0 | So first up, very popular, very common is knee pain. |
| 2:07.0 | So Ben, have you had much experience with diagnosing knee pain or addressing knee pain? |
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