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🗓️ 11 October 2023
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Running is an amazing way to build cardiorespiratory fitness, it’s accessible to just about anyone, and you can start right now. The problem? An estimated 80 percent of runners get injured each year, so simply staying on your feet consistently is a huge challenge for most people. My guest on this week’s podcast is a physiotherapist who will share her tips for running pain-free.
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Hilary is a physical therapist and was previously a member of the US Alpine ski team. She works with athletes and non-athletes in-person and online. She does a lot of work with runners, focusing on gait fixing and running injuries.
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0:00.0 | One of the biggest predictors of health span and lifespan is something called VO2 max. |
0:07.0 | It's a measure of your cardio respiratory fitness, the efficiency of your heart and lungs |
0:11.1 | working together, and essentially it's a measurement of how active you are, how much time you spend |
0:17.9 | exercising, no big surprise, exercise a lot. |
0:20.9 | Your body's healthy on a number of different levels, probably VO2 max, for sure indicates |
0:26.0 | your heart and lung health, but also as a proxy for full body fitness, which comes from |
0:30.8 | a lot of movement. |
0:31.8 | Whether that's your circulatory system, your metabolic health, your endocrine system, |
0:35.8 | and lots of other things. |
0:37.3 | When it comes to training your VO2 max, improving your VO2 max number, I should say, hard |
0:42.0 | to be running in terms of predictable controlled training effect, however running has so many |
0:47.8 | injuries that a lot of us start, stop, struggle, can't find our feet, figure out how to do it. |
0:53.2 | In this week's podcast, hopefully we'll give you some insight how you can potentially |
0:56.7 | be more successful, jogging, running, or walk jog, walking, any or all of the above. |
1:02.8 | If you're new here, it's the Lucas Rockwood show, I'm a yoga teacher, I'm a trainer, |
1:05.8 | I'm a serial entrepreneur, I'm the father of three kids, firstly though I'm a student. |
1:09.8 | I use this podcast as a way to meet doctors, physical therapists, researchers, yoga teachers |
1:15.3 | to bring their work here, so hopefully we live more, educated, more inspired lives. |
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