The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-319 – Brad Beer – Running Injury Free
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Intro Bumper:
Hello my friends? Nice to see you again.  And by ‘see you again’ I mean in that weird unidirectional podcast way.  I feel the karma.  No worries.  
I’ve been busy.  Winter is coming.  It’s hot and sticky outside but I know better.  Winter is coming.  I’m working on my wood pile for the fireplace and making ready for the snow and ice filled 9 months that are coming to New England. 
I love cutting wood.  You get yourself a nice big stick of red oak.  You chew it up into bite-sized pieces with your chainsaw. Then you get to whack it repeatedly with large pointy metal bits and stack it all up to dry.  It’s just a great combination of effort, utility skill and art.  You should see me swing a maul.  It’s a thing of beauty. 
Big news this week is that I had my 90 day follow up with Dr. Silver on Thursday.  If you weren’t paying attention I managed to give myself the gift of exercise induced A-Fib and they went into my heart after the Boston Marathon to perform some crafty medical shenanigans with the hope of fixing that.  
Looks like they did.  I ran a 1:20 step up run on Wednesday and was able to not only control my heart in a hopeful asymptomatic way but also lay down some sweet paces that I haven’t seen for over a year.  
I posted a YouTube video of these cardio results on my YouTube channel at cyktrussell – where I walk you through the Garmin output.  If you’re into that sort of thing.  The young Doctor also said I don’t have to take anymore Xeralto blood thinner meds – which is a bonus considering how often I run into trees. 
This week I have a conversation with a friendly physical therapist from Australia.  Brad Beer.  Brad is an accomplished runner and triathlete.  Like many of us he struggled with the question of why almost every runner, including me, and probably you too, gets injured.  
Why? And then he decided to answer the next question, “If you could, how would you prevent injury in runners?”  Brad wrote a book that methodically strips down the source of running injuries, answers some of the hard questions and tells you how to prevent them.  
Will we listen?  Of course not! I should be doing my yoga right now instead of this! 
Seriously – it’s a great reference work and a gift to all of us if we could manage to follow the advice! 
In section one I’m going to give you a piece that talks about how all marathon plans have the same 3 elements in them and if you understand these you can understand the whole plan. 
In section two I’ll talk about awareness.  
I’ve had a busy, active and wonderful couple weeks.  I’ve been working very hard on myself and taking some big risks (for me) to gain some transformational momentum in my life.  
It’s tiring to step out of your comfort zone and force yourself through road blocks and try things that you have no certainty with.  But it’s also exhilarating.  Once you kick the chock-blocks out from under your wheels much of the mental inertia falls away.  
Take my hand friends.  Let’s leap. 
On with the show!
Section one - Running Tips
The 3 Universal Elements of any Marathon Training Plan
 http://runrunlive.com/the-3-universal-elements-of-any-marathon-training-plan
Voices of reason – the conversation
Brad Beer
BIO
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I am a physiotherapist, Author of Amazon Running and Jogging Best-seller You CAN Run Pain Free, and founder of POGO Physio. I specialise in helping active people perform at their physical best. Over the last 8 years I have delivered in excess of 25,000 physiotherapy consultations, with thousands of these being for injured runners, and runners looking to prevent injury. I have helped my clients achieve some remarkable results, from the successful first time