Ep 16: Your Rehab Is Making You Faster (Change How You Think About Rehab, Strength & Performance)

Here's something almost nobody tells you, that your rehab might actually be making you faster. We tend to treat strength training, physio, and endurance training like three separate things, but they're really one connected system, and in this episode I'll show you how the exact same work that settles a sore Achilles or a dodgy knee is also quietly making you a more economical, more powerful runner, using the Achilles and the knee as the clearest examples. Then I'll flip it around and show you how the training you do purely to get faster, things like plyometrics and heavy strength work, is at the very same time building your resilience and lowering your injury risk. It all comes back to one simple idea, that your body responds to load, not to whatever you call the session.I also get into the practical side, how you can shape your strength work around what your endurance training is doing in a given block, what to actually do when you feel like you've got no time, and why the strength work is so often the wrong thing to cut. And as always, the science is pulled straight from the primary research, with the genuinely mixed bits, like whether isometrics help Achilles pain, left honest rather than tidied up.Nick and I coach runners and triathletes this way, building strength, physio and endurance together as one thing, and we've just opened a few coaching spots, so if that's what you've been looking for, here's the link: https://www.thedistancedr.com/coachingAnd if this gave you a new way to think about your training, I'd love it if you followed the show and told me what you'd like me to dig into next.