Hey guys, welcome to my profile! As a physical therapist and many-times injured athlete, I know firsthand how much it sucks to take off to recover from an injury.
I strive to help my patients with their rehab using evidence-based treatment methods and also empathize with them on a deeper emotional level.
I'm super passionate about anything related to self-improvement and have been running regularly for over a year now.
Feel free to send me a DM or an email for any questions!
Being overweight is not what causes running injuries.
More often, itâs underfueling and the classic doing too much too fast
If you want to start running, you donât need to âwaitâ until you lose weight.
Start where you are.
Listen to your body.
Adjust your volume if needed.
And if pain shows up, get guidance instead of pushing through it.
The relationship between weight, food, and running is complex, and thereâs a lot more to unpack there⊠but donât let that stop you from getting started.
Wanna work with me đââïž?
I'm available for booking for in-person visits in the Villeray and Plateau area in Montreal.
Appointment link + contact in my bio.
#running #physicaltherapy #rehab #injuryprevention
My physio friends complain to me very often that their patients don't do their exercises. Sure, sometimes the patient is not really consistent or disciplined or motivated enough, and that's fine, but often the issue lies in the physical therapist, not the patient.
If the exercise program sucks, of course the patient is not going to do it!
In the next few weeks, I'll focus on filming more reels about the most neglected of my three main content creation pillars, which is my training process.
Strength training in runners has been proven to improve running economy, lower the chances of injury, and also recover from injuries if they so happen.
The issue with runners right now is that they follow some arbitrary exercises found on the internet that don't load them properly.
If you're a healthy runner with strong legs, a few sets of body-weighted step downs or some barbell exercises are just not going to cut it. You have to properly train your muscles.
In other words, hit the gym and lift some heavy weights.
Don't underestimate the risk of injury in running, especially when you first start out. This is not meant to dissuade you from starting this beautiful sport, but more as a warning to take things slowly, especially if you never really ran in the past.
Running applies a very small stress on your bones and muscles and tendons, but extremely repetitively. This accumulation of stress can lead to overuse injuries much faster than other sports, such as biking or weight lifting.
Eventually, if you train smartly, you will be able to run almost any distance you want to multiple times a week, but you have to take the time in the beginning to build the proper adaptations so that your body can handle running.
The key to building any long-lasting habit is to build an identity around that habit and reinforce that identity consistently. Let's take running, for example. At first, when you start running, you're not going to see yourself as a runner, but you have to keep yourself to run consistently, regularly. Anyways, three times a week, five times a week, it doesn't matter as long as you're doing it consistently.
Over time, what happens is that you start subconsciously seeing yourself as a runner because you run.
Anything that might threaten that identity directly threatens your goal of building a long-lasting habit.
If I stop running whenever I felt like crap, I'd probably end up running just once or twice a week instead of 5 times a week. It's crazy how fast the body warms up to the effort and acclimates to exertion.
This run and so many others ended up feeling quite easy at the end, despite feeling so hard in the beginning.
This has been my experience posting on social media every day for a month now. I still have a long way to go, and there's still a lot of things that I'm sure I'm doing badly, but I'm enjoying the ride so far.
I'm going to continue doing these conversational one-take videos, and I'll continue experimenting a bit more as well. Next slide. Thank you for your support, everybody.
If you have a short-term mindset, you will only get short-term results. If you have an injury that keeps coming back, ask yourself the following questions:
- Am I recovering enough from my training?
- Am I properly strengthening the injured area?
- Did I see a physical therapist who actually specializes in my sport?
- Am I doing the work even when the pain is gone?
It's easy to be motivated, see a bunch of professionals, and be diligent with your exercises when you have an active injury. It takes much more discipline and consistency to do so even when you're not injured, but that's where the real work truly begins.
Wanna work with me đââïž?
I'm available for booking for in-person visits in the Villeray and Plateau area in Montreal.
Appointment link + contact in my bio.
#running #physicaltherapy #rehab #injuryprevention
