NO MORE SIDE STITCH!

SIDE STITCH WHEN YOU RUN?

Once they start, they are hard to settle down! I had a Masters Triathlete come to me with one that had “plagued (her) for years” any time she would push her runs.

She was training for the next World Triathlon when she came in to see me for help. What I found was that her breathing pattern was off. She wasn’t using her diaphragm equally on both sides, and it was keeping her R ribcage muscles in a near spasm. Whenever she ran, the breathing demands made the asymmetry even more evident.

We not only worked on her breathing, but her muscle firing patterns that had become unbalanced, as well. In order to keep the diaphragm working more in unison, we had to address the full body alignment & coordination. There was nothing wrong with her running technique - she was just trying to perform on an asymmetrical body!

Get this… we are ALL trying to function on an asymmetrical body. Some of us just ask more of it than others.

She went on to WIN her age group in the ITU World Triathlon Finals that year! And "the best part is... no stitch!"

Her body was a much more optimal machine, and what a difference it made.

Curious about how we did it? I will cover many of the activities she did to overcome her nagging stitch in my comprehensive, 6-wk Live/Pre-Recorded Hybrid Online Running Longevity Course!

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, Kristen

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