The Run Smarter Podcast

Dr. Carl Foster is an Exercise Physiologist in the Department of Exercise & Sports Science. He has published close to 500 clinical papers on clinical physiology including 'Prevention, Diagnosis & Treatment of Over-training syndrome: Joint Consensus Statement'. Following a quote from Shona Halson 'There's a belief out there that you can't over-train, you can only under-recover', Carl dives...

Christie Aschwanden is an american journalist, science writer and author of Good to Go: How to eat, sleep & rest like a champion. Christie's work has had a huge influence on the momentum of this recovery month theme and today, we focus on Nutrition for optimal recovery.  After chatting about the book we then draw our attention towards hydration to the recreational runner. How important is hydr...

Shona Halson is an Associate Professor in the School of Behavioural & Health Sciences at ACU. She is world renowned in the field of recovery and has worked with countless elite athletes. Today, we talk about Shona's 'recovery pyramid', and highlight where you should be focusing your recovery strategy before moving onto other less effective methods. We start off with Shona explaining the benefi...

We continue our recovery month with interviewing Chris Schneider. A PhD student in Athlete monitoring & heart rate measures. Chris has contributed to several scientific papers relating to this topic including his leading author contributions in the paper 'Heart rate monitoring in team sports - A conceptual framework for contextualizing heart rate measures for training and recovery prescription...

We continue our recovery month theme with interviewing Simon Wegerif. Simon is the founder of ithlete and has website myithlete.com selling heart rate variability (HRV) apps and sensors. Firstly, Simon explains the measurement of heart rate variability and how the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system are involved. He does an excellent job of explaining this concept to the general public...

May I introduce the first guest to our recovery month! Dr. Izzy Smith is a specialist in hormone health and today we focus on all things hormones, stress & recovery. Firstly, Izzy talks about the concept of 'over-training vs under-recovering' and why a recreational runner needs to be mindful of this. We then move onto the role of certain hormones that hinder and enhance our ability to recover....

Today is episode #1 of our Recovery Month theme! We kick off the month by recapping on relatable past episodes. Rather than send you back to refresh your knowledge, Brodie thought it would be a better idea to do the hard work for you. So, we summarize the key points from these episode: Episode #7: Stress less: The hidden dangers that reduced your capacity to adapt. Episode #18: Sleep & cortiso...

Following our last interview with Jaclyn, we continue to learn from personal rehab stories. This episode, Brodie interviews Michelle who has suffered from proximal hamstring tendinopathy for over over 12 months.  An avid distance runner for the past 10 years, Michelle received a lot of physical and mental benefits from running until her marathon progress was brought to a holt! Michelle has an open...

On today's episode Jaclyn opens up about her experience with chronic knee pain. After her initial knee pain during marathon training 5 years earlier, Jaclyn found her symptoms gradually spin out of control.  Jaclyn describes her experiences as her symptoms intensify, to the point of constant fear and anxiety whenever she had to move or even see other people walking! We dive into the impact thought...

Dr. Kieran O'Sullivan is a Physiotherapist, Clinician, Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Limerick. His research interests are pain & injury with low back pain specifically.  This episode helps debunk a lot of unhelpful myths that plague back pain sufferers. Most of the template from today's discussion comes from the research paper Back to Basics: 10 facts every person should know ab...

Throughout this new weekly series, Brodie talks about his personal experiences with particular injuries and shares the lessons he has learnt along the way, so you will gain insight into injury management & prevention. Today, Brodie talks about his experience with Plantar Fasciitis. This is an extremely common condition in runners and non-runners alike. The podcast has covered plantar fasciiiti...

Trang Nguyen is a Physiotherapist, Strength & Conditioning coach and host of the Athlete's Garage podcast. Trang has a particular interest working with endurance athletes at the end-stage of rehab. So today, we dive into ways you can implement or tweak your S&C sessions for optimization. Firstly, we discuss what a typical gym week would look like for a recreational runner, including freque...

Throughout this new weekly series, Brodie talks about his personal experiences with particular injuries and shares the lessons he has learnt along the way, so you will gain insight into injury management & prevention. This episode Brodie talks about his battle with patellofemoral pain. Firstly, we explore that runners simply cannot hide behind double leg strength work such as squats, deadlifts...

Megan Flanagan is a former collegiate runner who has a bachelor in nutrition, background in psychology, a personal trainer, running coach, ultra and trail runner and the host of Strong Runner Chicks podcast. With a special interest in body image, eating disorders, nutrition and self care, I invite Megan onto the podcast to talk about race weight, the unhealthy habits and unhelpful misconceptions s...

Throughout this new weekly series, Brodie talks about his personal experiences with particular injuries and shares the lessons he has learnt along the way, so you will gain insight into injury management & prevention. This episode Brodie talks about this transition from marathon running into sprint triathlons which resulted in a hamstring tendinopathy. Brodie highlights the impact of speed on...

Dr. Heather Hausenblas PhD, is a physical activity & healthy aging expert, researcher, and author. She is a co-author of 5 scientific books, and has published over 100 scientific journal articles.  Today we discuss the fascinating topic of exercise addiction. Here are the topics: The difference between exercise addiction and exercise committed. Typical behaviour and characteristics for someone...

Throughout this new weekly series, Brodie talks about his personal experiences with particular injuries and shares the lessons he has learnt along the way. You will gain insight into injury management & prevention. This episode dives into patellar tendinopathy. Here are some of the topics: How does a tendinopathy usually behave? Why we need to address our weak links, rather than just avoiding...

Alice Sanvito is a massage therapist trained in trigger point massage, remedial and sports massage. After several years practicing & lecturing the concepts she learnt she began challenging her own beliefs and following the science. Today we cover: Are there benefits to promoting blood circulation, and removing lactic acid? Does massage help with muscle lengthening & knots? What is the mech...

Throughout this new weekly series, Brodie talks about his personal experiences with particular injuries and shares the lessons he has learnt along the way. You will gain insight into injury management & prevention. This episodes dives into persistent calf tightness and achilles pain. Here are some of the topics: Is stretching effective for calf & achilles pain? How can running technique he...

My guest today is Jeff Sankoff. An emergency physician, ironman triathlete & podcast host of the Tri Doc podcast. His personal experiences with cramping and personal endeavours to find an explanation makes him the perfect guest for this topic. Today we cover: The proposed theories for muscle cramping The research history behind cramping The electrolyte imbalance vs neuromotor theory Potential...

On the back of my 4-day Unleash the Power Within seminar I decided to share my experiences & what you can take-away to become a better runner. Part 2 focuses on fulfillment. Make the decision to live a beautiful life, not just one of achievement. We runners are tough on ourselves. We work hard to achieve our running goals, striving and grinding a long the way, but the celebration is fleeting....

On the back of my 4-day Unleash the Power Within seminar I decided to share my experiences & what you can take-away to become a better runner. Part 1 focuses on the Success cycle and the 4 factors that complete the never-ending cycle. Your Belief, potential, action & results.  Become a Patron! Choose your Tier Here Run Smarter YouTube Channel Receive Run Smarter Emails Book a FREE Injury c...

Jake is an extremely enthusiastic running coach from the UK and hosts the podcast Running with Jake. Apart from sharing his passion and insight towards goal setting, we dive deeper into running motivation, human behaviour and injury woes. Jake discusses practical strategies for these scenarios along with enhancing the process of self-reflection. To continue listening to Jake I highly recommend lis...

Due to outstanding popularity, interest and curiosity I have decided to record an episode entirely dedicated to one research paper that was released this week. Fei Li et al, published an article looking at 3 randomized strength groups: 1.) Heavy strength + plyometric training 2.) Heavy strength training 3.) Endurance training Which training method is better at improving your running performance? L...

Today we have Lizzie Marlow, a specialist physiotherapist from the UK to share her expertise on tibialis posterior tendinopathy. We answer some listener questions along with: Tib post anatomy & function Likely causes for this condition in running Role of pronation & orthotics in tib post tendon pain Early & late stage strengthening exercises Running considerations & prevention tips...