Shin Splints

[Marcia]

T ihe only time used to get shin splints was when i used to use the treadmill alot at the gym...agony,so gave it up.

[0000]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jrnj-7YKZE

Edited by 0000 on Friday 16th March 08:06

[BorkFactor]

I get these occasionally - I often find that it comes on worst first thing in the morning walking quickly up a hill with no warm up.

Still haven't tried a warm up yet to see if that does anything, I will give it a go later today!

Hurts a lot though

[Tiggsy]

otolith said:

Quite possibly - although the Reebok Classics I was wearing to the gym were utterly unsuitable for running in, I wouldn't have bought them if I'd meant to do so. I've never suffered from this before, would my gait have changed so much since I was a youngster?

you are prob heavier now and on a machine its very easy to pound the heel. i'd be more interested in why your gait has changed over the last million years....we always use to be able to run.....now it seems our feet break without an "analysis" and 100 shoes.

[nick s]

I hadn't had shin splints for over 6 months and now they have returned!! I know exactly what it is though.
It's a combination of my trainers needing replacing, and doing circuit training on Monday which wad all high impact frog hops, single legs hops, skipping etc!

2 weeks rest from running now then start again! So frustrating!

[shouldbworking]

BorkFactor said:

I get these occasionally - I often find that it comes on worst first thing in the morning walking quickly up a hill with no warm up.

Still haven't tried a warm up yet to see if that does anything, I will give it a go later today!

Hurts a lot though

Part of my current training is heavily laden marches at 4mph pace. The common route starts with a march out of camp uphill as you warm up, and every bloody time I end up wondering if its going to be today that the injury returns.

Hasn't yet but having gotten them to the point where I could barely walk I realllly dont want to go there again.

[BorkFactor]

shouldbworking said:

Part of my current training is heavily laden marches at 4mph pace. The common route starts with a march out of camp uphill as you warm up, and every bloody time I end up wondering if its going to be today that the injury returns.

Hasn't yet but having gotten them to the point where I could barely walk I realllly dont want to go there again.

How did you manage to get rid of them?

Got them again today, forgot to warm up, and was walking fairly fast uphill. They never return after I have walked up to uni, even if I walk back and into town. Only in the bloody morning

[Leptons]

Tiggsy said:

I bought barefoot shoes and shin splints vanished (and I didn't have to waste time being analysed to see if millions of years of evolution had failed)

What are those?

[0000]

Minimal shoes like these:

http://www.merrell.com/US/en-US/Product.mvc.aspx/2...
http://www.vibramfivefingers.it/default.aspx

Worked for me too.

[Tiggsy]

I have both the above - means I can run on pavement at 17 stone with zero pain/aches/etc

[shouldbworking]

BorkFactor said:

How did you manage to get rid of them?

Got them again today, forgot to warm up, and was walking fairly fast uphill. They never return after I have walked up to uni, even if I walk back and into town. Only in the bloody morning

Rest. lots and lots of it.

When I first got them I thought 'this must just be a muscle development thing because im new to running'. Then I went to 'well, it eases off after 5/10 minutes, im probably just tense'. Then I went to 'well, I can walk normally again about 5 minutes after stopping, so thats probably ok'.

It was only when I literally couldn't walk that I knocked all running on the head for months. Spent a lot of time on the rower, the bike.. weights. After 3 or 4 months I was pain free, and from there I built back up slowly, and I run off road as much as possible.

[m444ttb]

When I very first started running I used to suffer with shin splints. Partly using muscles in a new way I'm sure, however properly fitted trainers sorted things out very quickly. I now tend to find a small amount of pain is the sign my trainers have passed their point of being any good.