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151. Does strength training reduce running injury risk? Physio Edge Track record: Running repairs podcast with Tom Goom

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Foam Rolling Reduces Running Injury Risk

There is some evidence that training for as little as 13 minutes, three times a week, can improve strength and endurance. We are seeing one or two studies showing that perhaps some strength training might not only improve running economy and performance, but it does have the potential to reduce running injury risk. Do check out this study: Strength training has got a whole host of different benefits so get people on board with the program. If they've made it open to access you want to look at the supplementary material as well. This can actually help you run faster. It may reduce your injury risk - we don't really know that necessarily. There's question marks around it. And we would need further study to

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