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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,

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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