I was told that my blogs are sometimes too long. I agree, they can be a bit too much to digest for a quick diversion from your everyday life. It’s cool. I’m into the whole brevity thing. You can call me, ‘His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino.’ For you hipsters I’m going to blog in 140 character paragraphs. This question was posted on our new running forum:
1. What causes shin splint?
You cause shin splints.
Shin splints are caused by the sudden shock and force you repeat on your legs when running.
Don’t run on concrete, uneven ground, excessive downhills and uphills, or start putting more strain on your muscles.
There you have it. Now serving our brevity sensitive customers!
I used to think that too… then someone told me it was because I had really tight calf muscles. I started doing Ashtanga yoga, my calves loosened up and I’ve never had shin splints again. And as a mountain runner, I run lots on uneven ground and do excessive downhills and uphills and not had a repeat of the shin splints… go figure!
That’s interesting. I’ve never done Ashtanga yoga before. Does it stretch your calves a lot? Do you think just stretching your calves could help shin splints in the same way?
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