Movement, Strength, and Injuries: Dr. John Rusin on How to Run Pain-Free

Dr. John Rusin is a physical therapist and trainer who's worked with nearly every professional sports league as well as Olympic athletes. His new book, Pain-Free Performance, is now available.

Our conversation focuses on movement, coordination, and building efficiency. We discuss:

  • common mistakes in the weight room

  • how to structure better strength workouts

  • mindfulness and breathing

  • a nervous-system oriented warm-down

  • when to know if you're putting in too much effort in the gym

We should not consider strength training to be "cross-training" - it's just part of the normal training process. Learn how to incorporate periodized, runner-specific strength training in your running at strengthrunning.com/strength/.

Check out John's website here or follow him on Instagram.

Listen to this episode of The Strength Running Podcast.