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Avoiding and Preventing Running Injuries

March 23, 2021 by Steve Gonser PT, DPT Flexibility, Strength
Avoiding and preventing running injuries is relatively difficult, if not impossible. Strength and balance deficits are unavoidable. Neglecting these foundational principles only appears to be a catalyst to missing severe training time. Being Reactive,
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Short on Time? 3 Must-Do Strength Exercises

October 31, 2017 by Steve Gonser PT, DPT Strength
To call running your “sport” doesn’t do justice to your favorite pastime and primary stress-busting therapy. It’s escape, freedom, and power, and it’s the activity that you endeavor to squeeze in no matter how
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Is One Side Stronger than the Other?

August 9, 2017 by Steve Gonser PT, DPT Strength
Most of the runners who come through my door have been under attack for months (if not years). Many can point to a general start point for their injury, but uncertainty looms around the
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Strengthen Together, Never Alone

February 3, 2017 by Steve Gonser PT, DPT Strength
The times are changing. The old-school way of strengthening was isolation. Way back when you would find a way to dial into a muscle and “isolate” it to build strength. For decades (and this
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What My Dance Lessons Taught Me About Running…

July 25, 2016 by Steve Gonser PT, DPT Strength
“One and two and three and four. One and two and three and four,” I desperately try to move in sync with my counting. “Steve keep your elbow bent,” my teacher interjects—with just a
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Should Runners Perform Plyometrics?

April 4, 2016 by Steve Gonser PT, DPT Strength
The water is murky when fishing in the Google sea.  The line between research and application is blurred.  Whether you snagged an article from a running enthusiast, trainer, or clinician (medical doctor, physical therapist,
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A Small Change to Lunges to Run Healthy

September 1, 2015 by Steve Gonser PT, DPT Strength
Lunges have been around for a long time, but what if I told you there’s a better way to lunge as a runner? The old form of dropping your knee to the ground and
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Dear Hip & Ankle, You Suck. Love, Knee

July 13, 2015 by Steve Gonser PT, DPT Strength
I receive a lot of injury emails. Many of which hint at the fact that I’m hiding some secret formula for sustaining healthy running. I’m not—the secret is in plain sight and starts with
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Pre-Race & Mental Toughness

June 19, 2015 by Steve Gonser PT, DPT Strength
This is likely the longest I’ve trained for a single event: more than any other marathon and roughly three or four weeks longer than my two Ironman’s. This whole debacle started seven months ago
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Endless Pursuit of Prevention

June 3, 2015 by Steve Gonser PT, DPT Strength
We’re all on a quest to seek improvement. For some, improvement takes the back seat to simply being in the action, but even those who have their sights on finishing certainly would like to
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Steve Gonser PT, DPT
Steve Gonser PT, DPT

Steve Gonser graduated with his Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Daemen College, instantly applying his knowledge of human movement and functional anatomy to his passion for running. Steve is a 2x Ironman, including a 10:41 finish in Lake Placid and a Sub-3 hour marathoner.

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