The Art and Science of the Perfect Run: Reduce Injuries and Increase Performance – Bill Pierce and Scott Murr

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Whether you are working with 5K or marathon runners, they are often a different breed. Taking time off? No way. They push through injuries, hoping to beat the clock in their next race.

The high-volume training schedule of runners often makes them frequent flyers in your clinic. They always seem to have a nagging injury that never quite goes away. You need a way to quickly identify and correct their dysfunctional movement patterns so that they can continue to do what they love.

Drs. Pierce and Murr will demonstrate innovative techniques to identify and tackle the most common running injuries. Backed by their research in the FIRST lab, you will learn today’s best strategies for working with runners.

This recording will feature motion capture techniques that will help you to target biomechanical inefficiencies and introduce corrective exercises. By doing so, you can reduce the risk of injury in this physically demanding sport. This live webcast is the bridge between exercise physiology, biomechanics and performance.

Learn strategies that will ultimately lead to fewer injuries and better performance for your runners – all while limiting over training and reducing injury.

1. Assess the principles of training.
2. Examine physiological determinants of running performance.
3. Describe the FIRST “3plus2” training program.
4. Design an effective training program based on scientific principles.
5. Utilize cross-training effectively to supplement running.
6. Analyze running gait for recommending prehab and rehab stretches and strength training exercises.
7. Evaluate how aging affects running performance.
8. Utilize the 7-Hour Workout Week to enhance fitness while supporting healthy aging.

Gait Analysis and Screening

• Implement motion capture – Dartfish, Qualysis, Video
• Strategies to Identify:
  • Faculty Mechanics
  • Muscular weakness
  • Poor flexibility

Assessments to Quickly Detect Issues: The Running Performance Model

• Physiological factors responsible for running performance
• Biomechanical factors responsible for running performance
• Nutritional factors responsible for running performance

Run Less, Not Train Less: The FIRST Program

• Apply to runners of all ages and abilities: 3 plus 2 program
• Quality over quantity
• Training with purpose
• Functional strength training timeline
• Flexibility exercises
• Goal setting and prediction tables
• Training programs for your clients
• Determining workout intensity

Apply Principles of Training to Prevent Injury

• Progressive overload
• Specificity
• Individual differences
• Law of diminishing returns
• Reversibility

Big Questions Answered! Tackle the Most Common Concerns

• Heal-striking
• Hamstring injury
• Arthritis
• Injury identification
• Barefoot running
• Running form
• Orthotics
• Running shoes
• Running frequency
• Weekly mileage
• Running fast
• Body weight
• Stretching
• Strength training
• Cross-training
• Running surface

Safe Returns: Getting Runners Back in Action Post-Injury

• When is enough rest enough?
• Tackling recurring injuries
• Best practices to reduce risk of re-injury

Youth Forgives Many Sins – Work with Aging Runners

• What happens to performance?
• Which biological factors affect running?
• Effects of psychological, social, and cultural factors
• Alternatives and solutions for the aging runner
• The 7-Hour workout week