 All right guys yet another book review. I just I just read so many books about running So I just want to share them all with you guys So I just thought I'd do another book review straight away today We're gonna review this one anatomy for runners. Stay tuned So as I said, I I do read a lot of running books both the sort of philosophical type the biography type but especially I enjoy the What can I say the educational type, you know learning about anatomy physiology Exercise physiology planning scheduling of training that sort of thing. I just reviewed this book the serious runners handbook I just made a review just now So if you haven't seen that review, you might want to check it out There's gonna be a link in the description to that review as well as Here I'll put a card there so you can check it out if you want after this video obviously Today though and now we're gonna review this book anatomy for runners So I got this book when I was injured last year about a year ago. I had some issues with my Shins, I mean it wasn't really shin splints. It was more like I Don't know I was even I went even to the doctor to make sure it wasn't a stress fracture and it wasn't but it took me out for a few months and During that time like a lot of people when you're injured you sort of start searching For answers and you want to learn, you know, how can I prevent this from happening again? injury prevention and it's it's really Extremely important as a runner because the most important thing in terms of your training and your progress is Consistency, you know, if you're out for a few weeks if you're out for a few months It has a huge impact on your training So the best thing to do is to be conservative and training and to keep building that to progress slowly and steadily and Consistently and so in order to do that we need to take care of our bodies We need to take care not to get injured and that's what this book is really good for I read it while being injured I was highly motivated Unlocking your athletic potential for health speed and injury prevention by J. Dickery, I don't know how that's pronounced the curry dickery Excellent book excellent book basically what it is is a book about Your musculoskeletal system basically it deals with how your muscles work How your tendons work? What are tendons anyway with our muscles? Ligaments how they heal how they build how they're affected by training and especially bad Mechanics problematic Running styles and how they they're problematic and how you can fix a lot of these things by Stretching by strength training by mobility work let's read through the Index here to give you an idea of some of the contents chapter 1 run like an athlete Chapter 2 baby biomechanics the physics of running. Let's take a quick look at that the physics of running So here's a little bit of physics basically just how how compression works how tension works What's share a picture of a healthy collagen fibers, which is what is in the in a tendon how they look in a micro Graph it's a it's a it's a nice book colorful and sort of interesting to read a lot of cool Figures and stuff like that I Love this kind of stuff, you know analyzing your your gate your biomechanics this book helped me understand What tendons do what is a tendon and what does it really do and how does it? How can a tendon and its stiffness for example? Affect your running, you know because there's such a thing as a too stiff of a tendon certainly There's such a thing. There's also such thing as too flexible of a tendon and How does the tendon interact with the muscle and is the muscle stronger than the tendon or is the tendon stronger than the muscle and how does that affect your Potential for injury and your potential for performance and the other thing here, which was very interesting to me was mobility because I realized that I do have an issue with my ankle mobility and that Is not necessarily good I'll get into that in another video the details of that But I learned a little bit about why it's important to have good mobility in certain areas of your legs and your body in general and It talks a little bit about how to sort of work on that some exercises and And You know it talks about foam rolling a little bit and self-massage and and posture as well Which is more like an everyday thing to keep attention to You know, this is the book that I kind of wanted to read again There's one of those books where I read it. I learned so much But I think if I read it again, I'll learn even more because it's really important to focus on these things as a runner as an athlete you just There's a lot of things to think about you don't want to just go out and train train train train train You also need to recover recover recover training and recover is two different things But they are really part of the same overall plan, you know, you need both likewise Injury prevention and working on that mobility working on that on those little things, you know That's that's also hugely important as an athlete. So this book sort of helped me Learn and get put attention to some of those things. Here's what the Alan Webb Has to say about it. He's the American record holder in the mile He says this is the best resource on running biomechanics and injury prevention the corrective exercises I've become part of my training routine Improved my performance and reduced my injuries. That's pretty good. So If you're interested in checking it out, please do so. I'll put a link in the description It's gonna be an affiliate link will take you to Amazon and if you want to buy it We'll get a little bit of a commission for sending you there But the price actually remains the same for you anyway, so it's a good way to support us And you get yourself a good quality book as well where you can learn lots of good things about What I just said Alright, I love books. I have lots more cool books to review for you guys in the Months and years to come and I'm constantly acquiring new books Of course, I have one coming in the mail in a few days. I'm gonna start reading that and Yeah, love it. Love it. So let me know in the comments. 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