If you are a runner, it is very important for you to have a runner’s strength training routine to keep you from developing common running injuries: shin splints, runner’s knee, and plantar fasciitis. The following exercises will help you strengthen your stability muscles to help protect your knees, strengthen your anterior tibialis to protect against shin splints, and help build the arch in your foot to protect against plantar fasciitis!
Prehab Movement Prep
- Clam Shells 15 per side and both
- Lateral Skaters 10 to each side
- Monster Square 1x
Set 1
- Forward and Lateral Runner’s Hops 3×10 to each side
- Push Up Abduction 3×10
- Lateral Hand Walks With a mini Band 3×10 steps to each side
Set 2
- Runner’s Bounds 3×10 per side
- Runner’s Hops 3×30 per leg
- Lifted Leg 1/2 V-up 3×12 to each side