Floris GiermanPodcast Host, Author, Running Coach, Co-Founder Path Projects

How To Run Pain Free FOREVER

Name: How To Run Pain Free FOREVER
Uploaded: 2025-06-27T14:05:34+00:00
Duration: 55 s
Channel: Floris Gierman
Description: In this instructional video, the host warns that regular runners face a 75% chance of injury each year, emphasizing the concept of a "blind spot" where…

27 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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In this instructional video, the host warns that regular runners face a 75% chance of injury each year, emphasizing the concept of a "blind spot" where runners overlook risk factors. He lists the most prevalent running injuries—Achilles tendinopathy, IT band syndrome, plantar fasciitis, and sacroiliac joint strains—drawing from personal experience with many of them. The video then outlines how to preempt these issues through simple, bulletproofing routines designed to strengthen vulnerable areas before injuries arise. A recovery story is shared about a runner named Jason, who used intensive pool running (nearly twice daily for ten days) to regain fitness and subsequently set multiple personal records. The host concludes with a training philosophy that values being slightly undertrained but healthy over being perfectly trained but injury‑prone, advocating for long‑term wellness on the starting line.

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If you run regularly, there's a 3 out of 4 chance that you will get injured this year. The real question is, what is your blind spot? Running has an injury rate that's higher than American football. You know, Achilles tendinopathy, IT band syndrome, plantar fasciitis, SI joint strains, all kinds of different muscle strains. I've had most running injuries. In this episode, we discuss how to avoid the most common injuries before they even start, how how to bulletproof your body with simple routines, and how recovery helped Jason come back even stronger. I went in the pool and I pool ran almost twice a day for a week and a half, and, and I came out of that 10-day or so feeling incredibly fit, and I went on to set multiple PRs in that season. You know, I always think I'd rather you be healthy and happy on the, on the starting line, even if you're 5% undertrained, than the person who's trained perfectly But, you know, they're in a cast.