CALF PAIN AFTER RUNNING - Here's what you need for FASTER recovery

If you suffer from calf pain after running, stick around as I’m going to show you some exercises to get you running again pain free. Try the calf pain exercises in this video to recover from your running injury.

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Running is tough on the legs, that’s for sure. It’s a high impact, repetitive action that places a lot of demands on different parts of the body.

Along with areas like the knees, your calf muscles are another focal point for this strain during running!

Unfortunately that also means that the calf complex is often an area that frequently gets injured amongst us runners.

If you’re currently nursing a calf injury, stick around to the end of the video as I’ll be demonstrating a number of exercises you can use straight away to help your calf muscles recover and get stronger, allowing you to better meet the demands of running.

So, very quickly, there are a few things we need to appreciate when it comes to those calf muscles.

Generally speaking, we refer to the muscles at the back of the lower leg as the calf, but there are a few different muscles back there.

The two I want to think about specifically in this video are gastrocnemius (gastroc), the big meaty, more defined muscle we all think of as the calf, and soleus, a muscle that sits a little deeper and below gastroc.

Both of these guys attach to the achilles tendon, which then attaches to the heel bone, the calcaneus.

We talk about these muscle as being plantar flexors of the ankle, creating the movement of pointing your foot downwards.

But it’s important to realise that they work together to control dorsiflexion as we weight-bear over the top of the foot when walking and running.

Also, gastroc has an important role in passively transferring force from the powerful hip muscles, like the glutes and hamstrings, down into the ground to push us forwards. This propulsion is as an important part of your running stride.

There are a number of different risk factors when it comes to calf injuries in runners.

Topping the long list has to be the ‘too much too soon’ factor. This isn’t just relevant to newer runners, who do often suffer with calf problems as their bodies adapt to the new demands that running imposes, but also to experienced runners who try to increase the milage too quickly, or add speed work into their programme too quickly.

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ABOUT ME: I'm a runner, sports rehabilitation specialist and coach based in the UK (Norwich and London).

Since 2007 I've been working with athletes focusing specifically on helping distance runners and triathletes overcome injury and improve performance through developing their individual running technique.

Running biomechanics has become a geeky little passion of mine!

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Видео CALF PAIN AFTER RUNNING - Here's what you need for FASTER recovery канала James Dunne