Christopher Johnson on Sport and Injury

Christopher Johnson is a physical therapist, performance coach, international speaker, published researcher, and elite triathlete.

I consider Chris to be a world-class source of information about the connection between movement and pain, especially in the context of endurance running. He knows all the research, has years of experience working with runners, and competes at the highest level.

Chris lives here in Seattle, so I’ve had many chances to get together with Chris and geek out about all things related to sports, movement and pain.

This podcast is a recorded version of one of those geek-out sessions. We decided to make it a joint interview where we both ask and answer questions. (As it turned out, I think I had a more questions for him.) In any event, it was an informal conversation that touched on a wide variety of topics including:

* Chris's background as a multi-sport athlete in skateboarding and tennis.

* differences in how we grew up playing many sports versus the modern environment where kids are forced to specialize.

* our personal experiences recovering from overuse and traumatic injuries.

* common injuries for runners, especially bone stress injuries and tendinopathies.

* raising kids to be healthy movers.

* how Chris deals with the mental stress of triathlons, including his absurd claim that 5Ks are harder than Iron Mans.

* our most recent projects and interests.

Links

Chris’ webpage

Chris’ new project collecting the best running drills: Top Shelf Resource Suite

Chris on YouTube

Chris on Facebook

Chris on Instagram

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