Preventing & Treating Triathlon Injuries: It’s Leg Day

The TriDot Triathlon Podcast

TriDot Triathlon Training

Running, Fitness, Sports, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 629 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

With all the swimming, biking, running, stretching, and lifting you do to train for a multi-sport lifestyle, you put your body through A LOT! Chances are you've dealt with an unpleasant ache or pain. Today's episode is part one in a three-part series covering injury prevention for various portions of your body. In part one, Dr. B.J. Leeper provides an injury-prevention-focused anatomy lesson on a triathlete's legs! Learn to prevent and treat shin splints, plantar fasciitis, IT Band Syndrome, knee pain, and more.

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0:00.0	This is the TriDOT podcast.
0:03.9	TriDOT uses your training data and genetic profile combined with predictive analytics and artificial intelligence to optimize your training,
0:12.8	giving you better results in less time with fewer injuries.
0:16.8	Our podcast is here to educate, inspire, and entertain. We'll talk all things triathlon with expert coaches and special guests. Join the conversation and let's improve together.
0:33.8	Hey everyone, thanks for joining us today. Now this is going to be episode one in a three-part series
0:39.7	that we will be doing over the next few months, all covering injury prevention for various
0:44.8	portions of our body. It's going to be great stuff. So listen in as we kick it off today,
0:50.0	talking the lower quadrant from the top of our legs to the bottom of our feet and then be on
0:56.1	the lookout for the following episodes here in the near future covering from the waist up.
1:01.3	Consider these to be an injury prevention focused anatomy lesson on the triathletes body.
1:06.5	Our guide to the science of the body and functional motion is Dr. B.J. Leaper.
1:12.1	BJ graduated from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine with a doctorate in physical therapy and rehabilitation science.
1:19.4	He is a board certified orthopedic specialist, a certified strength and conditioning specialist, and is a USAT triathlon level one coach. He specializes in comprehensive
1:29.5	movement testing and is an avid triathlet himself with over 50 tries under his belt. BJ, welcome back
1:36.1	to the show. Hey, thanks, man. Thanks for having me back on the podcast. Glad to talk. Also happy to be
1:41.1	joined by Tridot's very own John Mayfield. John is a USAT Level 2 and Ironman-U certified coach who leads Tridot's athlete services, ambassador, and coaching programs.
1:51.5	He has coached hundreds of athletes ranging from first-timers to Kona qualifiers and professional triathletes.
1:57.0	John has been using Tritout since 2010 and coaching with tritout since 2012.
2:02.6	John Mayfield, how are your legs feeling today, friend?
2:05.4	Have you used your recovery boots or your massage gun lately?
2:08.5	Always, man.
2:09.3	I'm in between two Iron Man races right now, and recovery is key in that time.
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