s1/e29 Pronation, Feet & Shoes with Dr. Marie Whitt (@dr.marie.whitt)
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4.6 • 534 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Marie Whitt, DPT, (@dr.whitt.fit) is back on the podcast for this episode on pronation, foot motion, shoes, and more! What actually happens in your foot when you run? How does this influence the shoes you buy (and vice versa?) What can you do to make your feet strong?
- Pronation: what are pronation and supination
- Correcting overpronation (& overcorrection)
- Heel whip and "egg beater" running gaits
- Stability vs. neutral shoes
- Footstrike! Heel, midfoot, toe - which and when?
- Carbon plate shoes
- At-home exercises for your feet!
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Dr. Marie Whitt, DPT, is runner and a sports Physical Therapist. Her job is to help runners train smarter to get stronger, and be faster by improving movement so you can run your best and compete at your highest level!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Running Explain podcast. I'm Elizabeth, a marathoner, running coach, and answer seeker. |
| 0:08.1 | When I became a new runner at the age of 29, I had so many questions, but it felt like I was on my |
| 0:14.5 | own to figure all of the answers. So now I'm here to answer all your running questions to help make you a |
| 0:20.3 | better, smarter, |
| 0:21.4 | faster, runner. |
| 0:23.5 | There's no question too simple and no topic too complex. |
| 0:27.0 | So let's get started. |
| 0:28.6 | My guest this week is my first returning guest, Dr. Marie Witt, Doctor of Physical Therapy. |
| 0:34.9 | Dr. Witt was also on episode 23 all about cross training. Such a fantastic |
| 0:39.4 | conversation. And I just like talking to her. So it was really easy to have her back on for this |
| 0:43.9 | episode talking all about how your foot works when you run and about shoes and how those things |
| 0:50.1 | are related and talk about pronation. And then because she is a physical therapist she actually |
| 0:54.8 | gives us this really cool exercise to do at home to help strengthen and work your midfoot in a running |
| 1:02.5 | specific way it is super cool as soon as we finished recording i actually went and tried this and it is |
| 1:08.7 | it'll get you it is beneficial absolutely so with all that being said |
| 1:13.7 | here we go dr marie witt welcome back to the show hello i am so happy to be here i've been wanting |
| 1:21.8 | to do another episode with you for like weeks and weeks and weeks now so i'm so happy to be back |
| 1:26.9 | it's going to be great oh It's going to be great. |
| 1:27.9 | Oh, this is going to be. And it's going to be such a fun topic, complex yet important topic today. |
| 1:33.9 | We are combining two very cool related topics. We're talking about feet and we're talking about |
| 1:40.7 | shoes and kind of how those things fit together and how and why different |
| 1:46.6 | types of shoes are important and how and why your foot moves in certain ways. |
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