Welcome to the Runners Connect, Run to the Top Podcast, where it's all about learning from the best minds in the sport

so you can train smarter, stay healthy, and run faster now.

And now your host, Tina Muir.

Hello, Tina Muir here, and I would like to welcome you

to another episode of Runas Connect, Run to the Top

Podcast.

I'm so happy you're tuning into another episode. I would like to

thank you for taking the time to listen today. I know you have many choices to where

you could spend your time so I really appreciate you choosing to listen to Runners Connect. I also would like to thank you

for the feedback you've given from previous episodes and your patience as I continue to grow

into my role as a podcast host. I apologize for my nervousness. I'm hoping as I become

more comfortable it will flow a little bit smoother, but I appreciate you being patient

while I go through this. Today let's get on with our show. Our guest is one of our

writers you may have seen him on our blog. He has written quite a few of our

popular articles, Matt Phillips. He is a sports therapist with over 20 years of experience. He is a running

performance coach who specializes in movement and pain management. He writes for Running

Fitness magazine in addition to Runners Connect and is the head of the Hove 57 Run Club which provides support to runners and looks at fundamental agility, balance and coordination training to help reduce your injury risk.

Matt is also a presenter at conferences for Brighton Marathon and London Marathon.

So if you had not already guessed he is British so I hope you

do not mind the accents because you're going to be hearing quite a lot of them

today. Matt is also known for his runners MOT or known as inspection in the US, which is a 30 minute full body

gate analysis to look at what you can do to become more efficient based on your individual

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