s3/e39 No, Running STILL Isn't Bad For Your Knees! with Dr. Lauren LaPierre, DPT (@thepersonalizedrunningdoc)
The Running Explained Podcast
Running Explained
4.6 • 534 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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YOUR KNEES AND RUNNING, PART TWO with Dr. Lauren LaPierre, DPT (@thepersonalizedrunningdoc). Thought we'd covered it all last season? Nope!
-No, running still isn't bad for your knees
-How is it that we sometimes experience whole-joint soreness in the knees?
-Risk factors for knee injuries
-Isometric exercises to address knee pain
-Stabilization of the knee joint: understanding the role of the adductors
-How to harness the power of eccentric exercises to improve your running
-Is it OK to let my knees go past my toes when I'm strength training?
-Are we doing ourselves a dissevice in how we talk about having "good knees" or "bad knees"?
-Different rates of development for muscles vs. tendons vs. ligaments, etc
-If strength takes so long to develop... how come I can rapidly increase how much I can handle when I first start lifting weights?
-Why PRs aren't the only measure of improvement
-How to use injury as an growth opportunity
-"Offensive" vs "defensive" strength training as a runner
-And more!
Dr. Lauren LaPierre is a doctor of physical therapy by trade, runner rehab specialist and running coach! Dr. Lauren personally has over a decade of competitive running experience, competing throughout high school and later for the University of Rhode Island as a Division I athlete. Her personal journey with running is the reason she went to PT school and later started her business, The Personalized Running Doc.
Her mission is to help other runners overcome training-related injuries when all else has failed, empowering them to continue running for themselves and crushing their goals as they do. Since 2020, her comprehensive approach and hybrid training model have helped runners all over the world return to running pain-free and reach their maximum running potential!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Running Explain podcast. I'm your host, Elizabeth. I'm a marathoner, coach, and answer seeker. |
| 0:07.3 | When I first started running at the age of 29, I had so many questions and what felt like nowhere to turn to for answers. |
| 0:14.1 | And now I'm here to answer all your running questions about anything that you might want to know. |
| 0:18.2 | If you're a new runner or you've been doing this for a long time |
| 0:20.8 | there's always something more to learn about running so let's get started my guess this week is |
| 0:26.5 | returning guest physical therapist dr. Lauren LaPierre you may remember Lauren from her appearance |
| 0:31.5 | back on season two your knees and running and this is your knees and running part two |
| 0:36.8 | this week we're talking about the knee |
| 0:39.1 | joint the tissues the way the different tissues load and develop offensive versus defensive |
| 0:44.4 | strength training how to use a setback as a set up for a comeback and more all relating |
| 0:51.0 | to your knees and running so if you ever have any questions about well your knees and running. So if you ever have any questions about, well, your knees and running, this episode is for you. |
| 0:58.2 | Lauren, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:59.6 | I'm excited to have you here. |
| 1:01.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:01.5 | It's so great to be back. |
| 1:02.6 | So for people who are unfamiliar with you based on your appearance in season two podcast, talking |
| 1:08.8 | about your knees and running, go ahead and briefly reintroduce yourself |
| 1:11.5 | and tell us who you are. So my name is Dr. Lauren Lapier. I am a physical therapist. I consider |
| 1:17.8 | myself a runner rehab specialist because I've been specializing runners for the last like four or five |
| 1:24.6 | years. And I am a endurance runner. |
| 1:28.9 | I've been running since I think I was like 12 or 13 years old, |
| 1:32.7 | went into competitive high school and college, |
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