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New Year, New Me (and injury)

New Year, New Me (and injury)

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With New years right around the corner its time to "get right" and start some new workout program

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If you’ve been paying attention you’ll see new years specials like this from all the usual suspects.

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Group fitness/boot camp style classes and Couch to 5k programs are pretty common since they are easy.

Here's a few tips to ensure you don't develop an overuse injury and stay on track for the ENTIRE year.

#1 Ramp up slow

Try to look at your increases in activity as a PERCENT of what you’re currently doing and make SMALL increases more frequently.

Using running as an example because it’s easy, if you’re only running 1 miles/day 3x/week, upping it to 2 miles/day is a 100% increase in activity.

There’s no magic formula to know the exact percent increase you can tolerate, but 10-20% at a time will improve your chances.

#2 Dial in your nutrition

Getting stronger and getting better at running are PERFORMANCE goals.

Performance goals require FUEL so you can recover and your body improve.

So EAT

Yes I get it, you have to be in a calorie deficit to lose weight.

Best way to manage that is to eat MAINTENANCE calories, and then let exercise create the deficit.

Not both

#3 Prep your body

The less active you’ve been, the less your body will be able to tolerate.

This is yet another reason I love isometrics.

Not only do they HEAL tendinitis, the DEFEND against it

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