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Taper Tips: 6 Tips to Help You Nail Your Race Training Taper
It’s taper time! My fiancée is running her 5th marathon this November, and it’s always exciting when she makes it to taper time healthy....

Jordan Metcalf
Oct 2, 20234 min read
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Know Your Core: Self-Assessment Tips for Healthier Movement
Do you ever feel like this when someone tells you to “strengthen your core?” Don’t worry, you’re not alone. The “core” is referring to...

Jordan Metcalf
Sep 18, 20234 min read
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Running Fast and Slow: Understanding Energy Systems to Help You Run Faster
If you’ve ever used an online run training program like Garmin or Hal Higdon, you know that when you set your race goal pace, the easy...

Jordan Metcalf
Aug 8, 20233 min read
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Should You Be Stretching?
My face when my patient who can palm the floor tells me that their hamstrings are always soooo tight: The concept of using stretching to...

Jordan Metcalf
Jul 18, 20234 min read
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Why You Hurt and How To Fix It: Rehab Tips
In my years of practicing as a physical therapist, I have found a formula to explain why we get into a cycle of pain, and how to go about...

Jordan Metcalf
Jun 15, 20236 min read
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Proximal Hamstring Tendinopathy in Runners
Why do runners get hamstring tendinopathy? Few runners that I work with who run greater than 3 miles complain of hamstring soreness after...

Jordan Metcalf
May 30, 20233 min read
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What is Dry Needling and How Can It Help You?
Dry needling has gotten a lot of buzz in the last few years in the physical therapy and sports/performance world. Is it deserved? Read...

Jordan Metcalf
May 18, 20234 min read
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How Strength Training Can Make You a Better Runner
Whenever I bring up strength training (ST) with runners, they all typically agree that it’s important. Some of them are actively doing...

Jordan Metcalf
Apr 27, 20235 min read
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What is "IT band syndrome" And How Do You Fix It?
The iliotibial band (ITB) is sort of like the long snapper on a football team. If you don’t already know, the job of the long snapper is...

Jordan Metcalf
Apr 11, 20233 min read
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What is Blood Flow Restriction Training and How Can It Help You?
You might have heard some buzz around Blood Flow Restriction Training (BFRt) over the last couple of years as actors like Chris Hemsworth...

Jordan Metcalf
Mar 9, 20236 min read
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5 Things Runners Need to Know About Achilles Tendinopathy
If you’ve ever had an injury to your achilles tendon, you probably know why they call extremely difficult or impossible tasks your...

Jordan Metcalf
Mar 1, 20234 min read
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To Cut, or Not To Cut: Meniscus Injuries
In our to cut, or not to cut series, we try to answer the question of whether surgery is the best treatment for a particular condition....

Jordan Metcalf
Feb 7, 20234 min read
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Is Low Back Pain Forever?
I was recently having a conversation with a friend of mine about a client that I was working with was having hip pain, but I had recently...

Jordan Metcalf
Jan 17, 20233 min read
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5 Tips to Help You Stay Healthy During Your Marathon/Half Marathon Training
*Click* …And just like that, you signed yourself up for a race… That’s awesome! Running a race can be daunting, especially if it is your...

Jordan Metcalf
Jan 10, 20235 min read
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