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Welcome to the Running Explain podcast. I'm Elizabeth, a marathoner, running coach, and answer seeker. When I became a new runner at the age

of 29, I had so many questions, but it felt like I was on my own to figure all of the answers.

So now I'm here to answer all your running questions to help make you a better, smarter,

faster runner. There's no question too simple and no topic too complex.

So let's get started. My guest this week is Dr. Matt Minard, physical therapist and the founder

of Learn to Run. Matt started Learn to Run during the pandemic when Jim's closed and a whole bunch

of people started running for the first time in their lives and he started seeing a whole lot more new runners with running related injuries in his clinic. And so he started learning to run to help educate all of us experienced and novice runners on what proper running form should look like, how to fix common running form errors, and just generally educate us on how our bodies

should be moving while we run. Matt, welcome to the show. I'm excited to have you here. Thank you so much

for having me. I'm glad to be here. Tell us about yourself. How did you become a runner, a physical

therapist, and the guy who posts awesome how to run videos on Instagram.

So I've known I've wanted to be in healthcare since I was a kid.

And since I was a junior in high school, I knew I wanted to be a physical therapist.

And like a lot of people, like you have some incident or some event that happens that leads you down that path.

So I was a baseball player. I was a pitcher and I was

dumb and I just overdid it and over did it and overdid it. Long story short, ended up having surgery

that ended my baseball pitching career, but then I found physical therapy. And I knew the moment

that I went to PT that that's what I wanted to do. And so the good news was I knew

what I wanted to do. The bad news was they just changed it to a doctorate seven year of schooling.

So I knew I was in for a long haul. So I was a physical therapy aid through undergrad, through PT school.

So I had a lot of experience.

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