Jay Dicharry > Quotes

“The question should not be: Should I take a week off for my ____ injury? The correct question is: How can I promote positive healing in the impaired tissue?”
― Jay Dicharry, Anatomy for Runners: Unlocking Your Athletic Potential for Health, Speed, and Injury Prevention

“The body’s natural responses are not so dumb; listening to them will result in proper healing. Unfortunately, traditional medicine has not listened to the body, but tried to silence it.”
― Jay Dicharry, Anatomy for Runners: Unlocking Your Athletic Potential for Health, Speed, and Injury Prevention

“send more vitamins down the toilet than their bodies can absorb. If you eat a reasonably balanced diet and live in the modern Western world, you likely get enough vitamins and minerals.”
― Jay Dicharry, Anatomy for Runners: Unlocking Your Athletic Potential for Health, Speed, and Injury Prevention

“often said that the glute is the strongest muscle in the body, but is it true? Look how big your quad is compared to your glute. Strength doesn’t always revolve around size; it has to do with leverage. The glute max has one of the most direct lines of pull of any muscle in the body. It can generate a lot of force to extend your hip.”
― Jay Dicharry, Anatomy for Runners: Unlocking Your Athletic Potential for Health, Speed, and Injury Prevention

“By increasing the load on the muscle, we can decrease the load on your joints. Improving stability will tax the muscle control around the joints, but this is a good trade-off. Sloppy control around the joint creates instability and shear, which leads to premature wear and tear. Your muscles can rest and recover, but joint stress has bigger repercussions for your long-term health.”
― Jay Dicharry, Running Rewired: Reinvent Your Run for Stability, Strength, and Speed

“Running is just moving the body’s center of mass forward while doing a bunch of single-leg squats. Single-leg balance is pretty close to the single-leg stance phase of running.”
― Jay Dicharry, Anatomy for Runners: Unlocking Your Athletic Potential for Health, Speed, and Injury Prevention

“running does not directly strengthen the muscles that stabilize us in the lateral and rotational planes. These muscles are critical with respect to injury and performance potential.”
― Jay Dicharry, Anatomy for Runners: Unlocking Your Athletic Potential for Health, Speed, and Injury Prevention

“But once again, you can only move as efficiently as your body allows. Sitting and slumping for hours on end tightens the muscles around the front of the hips and pulls the shoulders forward.”
― Jay Dicharry, Running Rewired: Reinvent Your Run for Stability, Strength, and Speed

“Stress fractures occur from time to time as a result of training errors. People make mistakes; everyone is “allowed” one.”
― Jay Dicharry, Anatomy for Runners: Unlocking Your Athletic Potential for Health, Speed, and Injury Prevention