So this isn’t exactly a question but more what I’m trying to work through with some clients… I
I train a ton of endurance athletes and military. A good majority are struggling with some bone stress injury or shin splints
I’ve been trying to prescribe a 2:1 static to dynamo ratio but this is kinda where I’m running into issues because to heal the bone we need to be doing plyos 1-3x per day to stimulate remodeling…
Or even if they aren’t recovering from a BSI they are often running 6-12x per week… which means to keep a 2:1 ratio you’d have to do like 30 plus iso sessions ….
But if connective tissue has a 2-10 min window before it needs a recharge that means we have to wait 4-6 hours before loading again…
Like would you have them do CT work before the run? After? Would it be stimulating after a run or not?
Or let’s say in the am you have a client do plyos only a couple reps then go for a run… well the bone/connective tissue would have a stimulus from that and you’d have to wait to the pm to hit that again but that is only a 1:1 ratio… and if they have two runs in a day and on most days…
I’m kinda running into how to put this all together because so far I have athletes saying , loadin that often is making their shins and calves worse and limiting their ability to run and they feel since we have started implementing high volume ISOs at length
The question I get asked is why are we doing this much volume if it’s not improving their run?
two of my guys said they felt better doing eccentrics and just simple calf raises
Also if we are holding a HIMA or yielding iso and we start losing range is that now a dynamic as we are now performing an EQI??
Sorry for the long winded response …
I’m really trying to grasp all this and understand. And clearly I’m dumb lol 😂
I am just still working out how to maximize our strategy but I feel like with endurance athletes and specifically runners it’s a nightmare trying to balance all this especially when they are getting 12-35 hours of cardio per week
So this isn’t exactly a question but more what I’m trying to work through with some clients… I
I train a ton of endurance athletes and military. A good majority are struggling with some bone stress injury or shin splints
I’ve been trying to prescribe a 2:1 static to dynamo ratio but this is kinda where I’m running into issues because to heal the bone we need to be doing plyos 1-3x per day to stimulate remodeling…
Or even if they aren’t recovering from a BSI they are often running 6-12x per week… which means to keep a 2:1 ratio you’d have to do like 30 plus iso sessions ….
But if connective tissue has a 2-10 min window before it needs a recharge that means we have to wait 4-6 hours before loading again…
Like would you have them do CT work before the run? After? Would it be stimulating after a run or not?
Or let’s say in the am you have a client do plyos only a couple reps then go for a run… well the bone/connective tissue would have a stimulus from that and you’d have to wait to the pm to hit that again but that is only a 1:1 ratio… and if they have two runs in a day and on most days…
I’m kinda running into how to put this all together because so far I have athletes saying , loadin that often is making their shins and calves worse and limiting their ability to run and they feel since we have started implementing high volume ISOs at length
The question I get asked is why are we doing this much volume if it’s not improving their run?
two of my guys said they felt better doing eccentrics and just simple calf raises
Also if we are holding a HIMA or yielding iso and we start losing range is that now a dynamic as we are now performing an EQI??
Sorry for the long winded response …
I’m really trying to grasp all this and understand. And clearly I’m dumb lol 😂
I am just still working out how to maximize our strategy but I feel like with endurance athletes and specifically runners it’s a nightmare trying to balance all this especially when they are getting 12-35 hours of cardio per week