Episode 78: Jeff Moreno -Creating Independent Empowered Athletes!

Welcome back to another episode of the Run Culture Podcast. Today I am extremely privileged to be chatting to Dr Jeff Moreno. Jeff is a highly established and renown Physical Therapust from Santa Cruz, California. In 2005 Jeff became the team Physical Therapist for Nike Team Run Los Angeles, a post collegiate running team sponsored by Nike. Dr Moreno’s running clientele have included; US, Canadian, Mexican and Chinese Olympians in events from the 800 to the Marathon. In 2015 he founded ‘Move to Thrive’ an initiative aimed at improving youth inactivity. He is also the co-founder of ‘PWR Lab’ a platform that is designed to link to a runner’s GPS watch and help process their training data to assist in making smarter training decisions. There were so many great takeaways from this episode with Jeff, such as; Our healthcare system and culture is in general, too reactive rather than preventative in nature. Runners need to gain control and become independent, empowered CEOs of their own running journey. We should all make training decisions from a, ‘how can I run for the rest of my life?’ point of view. He also touched on the importance of movement variety, the direct interplay and relationship between the need for movement and a full life and that we are all a function of our environments.