Today I had an amazing professional experience. A client, who back in September suffered a hip injury, is now able to run again after a single session. Here's what happened...

In my last post, I discussed the tapered toe box and why its so problematic. Then it occurred to me you may want a simple way to discern if the shoe you're considering buying makes the grade. Here ya go!

The vast majority of casual AND training shoes on the market are not designed to allow our foot to function optimally – even though they may be marketed as such.

Recently, I wrapped up a group run with Fairmount Park Conservancy (join us!!) and noticed a friend had dirty scuff marks all over the inner aspect of her calf. The scuff marks are a result of your swing leg foot swiping the stance leg calf as it...

There's been a ton of focus in recent years on running form. Yet certain aspects of form have gotten WAY more 'press' than others. I'm thinking specifically of footstrike. Forefoot? Mid-foot? Heel strike? Barefoot? Definitely useful to consider, but let's not miss the forest for the trees or overstate it's importance. Today I'd like to draw your attention to all of the various ways rotation is present throughout our body as we walk and run. Or, it's supposed to be.

Most of us skip right to the jam out session without much technique work to support it. We lace 'em up and “just run”. And that is totally cool if that's all running is to you, a little jam-out session. But even for the person who doesn't want to run farther, faster, or with less injury risk, I think you'll enjoy your basic jam-out that much more if your running skill is better. Here's a great little routine you can practice

I've got a couple of great reads for you today on a variety of subjects, but they're all geared toward one thing: helping you perform better on the roads or in life!

I think we can all agree that generally the goal in racing is to get from point A to point B as quickly as possible. To that end, the less sideways movement, the better. With crossover gait, you've got a bit of lateral motion in not only the feet, but also the entire center of mass. This is NOT GOOD!

When your foot hits the ground lots of stuff happens. The focus of today's post is the pelvis and how it should remain level when running. As one client put it, pelvic unleveling just sounds downright “unnerving”.

Want to quickly assess your risk for a future running-related injury? What about efficiency? Every runner wants to run fast with less effort. Would you like to peal back the curtain and observe a possible energy leak?

Man, is this concept misunderstood by the average runner! But I can see why. When you watch a fast runner, their stride is pretty dang long. Makes sense that you, too, should strive for a long stride, right?

Sarah was fed up with running. Every 8 weeks it was something else. IT Band pain, Piriformis Syndrome, knee cap pain, shin splints... Each time she thought she was in the clear something else would pop up and derail her training program.

A key ingredient in making a successful transition to better running form is calf strength, flexibility and, maybe most importantly, tissue quality.

I was recently asked to choose 3 problems many runners face and to offer a solution to those issues.

I recently came across a video put out by Nike which shows top coaches using the Functional Movement Screen to assess some NFL players readiness for training. If it's good enough for the pros, it should be good enough for you, right?

We'll talk about training mistakes like increasing mileage too quickly or adding too much hills or speed in an upcoming post, but this week I'd like to focus on the biomechanical aspect of running. If you haven't changed anything in your training for the last 6-8 weeks, perhaps we need to examine the way you move.

So, in the last post I discussed why it's important to move properly and how you can't really expect to train at full bore unless you do. Without functional, basic human movement patterns as your foundation, you will be running and training on dysfunctional movement patterns. That doesn't sound good, but what does that mean exactly?