Welcome to the Running Explained podcast. I'm your host, Coach Elizabeth. When I started running at the age of

29, I had so many questions and what felt like nowhere to turn to for answers. So now I'm here to

answer all your questions about running and running adjacent topics to help you become a better,

smarter, more knowledgeable runner. Whether you're brand new or you've been doing this for a while, there's always more

we can learn about running.

My guest this week is physical therapist Dr. Matt Silver.

Matt is a sports PT, a running coach, a running form analyst, the owner of Alpha Project

Physio and Performance Physical Therapy Clinics, and now he is an author of the book Built

to Run. We are going to be

talking about today specifically all about mobility for runners. And this conversation encompasses

mobility, tissue quality, key areas of mobility that you need to have as a runner for good form,

ways that mobility limitations may be contributing to some chronic injuries

that never seem to go away, but never seem to actually impact your running in a meaningful

way? You know the ones that I'm talking about. So I learned a ton from this chapter of this book.

I learned a ton from this conversation with Matt. There are some things we talk about, which may be better illustrated by you Googling the video of the things we're talking about, like the couch stretch. Thank you for listening, and I hope you enjoyed this episode. Dr. Matt Silver, welcome to the show. I'm excited to have you here. Yeah, thanks for, thanks for having me, Elizabeth. Today we're talking about mobility for runners, but also in the context of this book

that you just wrote, built to run, which is awesome. So I will be referencing from that. I have it all

written and notated up in front of me. Before we get into our topic today, go ahead and tell us,

Matt, how did you become a runner? It's a good question. I grew up in upstate New York. So think of not the city, like, you know, I don't know, probably two hours, three hours north, where it's just, it's a lot of country, a lot of not a whole lot to do, hunting, fishing or things I've done. But then it's like, well, there's these trails. Let me go, like, run. And also, I didn't have a lot of neighbors near me, and it's like hard to go see friends.

So in my free time as a kid, play baseball, throw a ball against the shed and catch it, and then go run.

So I kind of got into it that way and ran through middle school, high school, college, got pretty darn injured in college.

And then that was a good spark to become a physio, become a physical therapist, and

want to treat myself.

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