Are you a runner looking for a sports injury prevention program and cross training exercises you can do at home? Our self treatment video designed for runners will help you learn how to stretch before and after running, as well as coach you through cross training exercises to improve flexibility, overall mobility, restore balance, and strengthen core support.

Are you a runner that suffers from knee pain, hip pain, or back pain? Participate in this comprehensive exercise program designed to strengthen your core support, improve running form, and promote a supple body through at home physical therapy and Pilates exercises. Move in ways that get you out of the repetitive motions of your sport, so you can keep running faster and lighter over all of those miles.

Learn exercises that will balance your body's structure in order to combat and prevent the most common running related injuries such as hip bursitis, piriformis syndrome, IT band syndrome, and knee pain (runner’s knee or patellofemoral pain syndrome). Join Esther Smith (Doctor of Physical Therapy) and Eva Kauffman (Master Pilates instructor) as they teach you how to optimally warm up and stretch before you run, and coach you through strength and mobility routines for effective cross training for runners.

Recommended for: Every runner looking to participate in cross training and sports injury prevention

Video Highlights-

Section 1: Education for Runner Athletes

• Running form: optimize power and push off through posterior chain activation

Section 2: Running Warm-Up

• How to stretch before you run
• Hip warm-up
• Spine warm-up

Section 3: Mobility for Runners

• Stretches to do after running
• Best stretches for runners: calf stretches, hamstring stretches, quad stretches
• IT Band stretches
• Exercises to improve flexibility
• Self massage for supple hips
• Foam rolling for runners
• Hip mobility exercises and spine mobility exercises

Section 4: Strength Building for Runners

• Core strengthening for runners
• Lateral hip muscle strengthening for runners
• Glute strengthening for runners
• Breathing exercises for optimal core connection
• Pilates exercises for core strength
• Pilates exercises for a strong and supple spine
• Pilates exercises to strengthen the posterior chain of muscles