Have you ever seen someone with well developed muscular legs with IT band syndrome, because I have not. I am going out on a limb and saying if you have ITBS you need to strenthen your legs period. Not shoes, pronation, supination ect. What do you think?
I’ve had two bouts of ITBS…and my legs are not chicken legs…
"someone with well developed muscular legs "
Please define the above statement?
There are a lot of factors to consider when looking at injury etiology, especially overuse injuries such as ITBS. Muscle strength is just part of the equation. Other factors to consider: foot type, flexibility, training intensity, training surface, training duration (specifically if there were any significant changes in any of these training parametes), nutritional status, past medical history (especially if there is history of previous overuse injuries)…the list goes on, and on. Can’t focus on just one thing.
Im just getting over ITBS no chicken legs here, but when I was working out and hitting the legs hard on the squat rack, 500lbs , I never had leg issues.
I have had ITBS before and I do not have chicken legs…I was a cat 2 roadie and a mogul skier…
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I have chicken legs and never had ITBS. The athlete I coach that has more problems with ITBS is the one with the biggest legs. Just thought I gave you a couple data points 
like this?
What’s with the heel strike? No wonder you have IT band issues. 
try to run downhill with a forefoot strike
I had 2 short ITBS issues…MY thing is the achille
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try to run downhill with a forefoot strike
you’re joking Francois? you can run downhill quite easily with a midfoot strike if you up your cadence and (most importantly) bend your ankle: I know I am a lot faster that way (and routinely kick my training nemesis’ ass that way, he kills me on the uphill but when the downhill comes I always catch up AND pass him to boot )
it depends how steep it is…this downhill was quite steep…around 10% or so
that said, I run rather poorly downhill…
Uh, I’ve had ITBS and I squat 450. Muscled-legs are fine, but if your footstrike is wrong or your muscles are imbalanced - some stronger than others - or many other reasons, you may run into ITBS problems.
I heard that you were getting better…
downhill running or riding isn’t really good…
rest is fine indeed
you don’t want to hear olaf’s comment on the bet he has for my bike split…
You know that I only like to make bets on run splits. I’m still pissed off at those hills in the park at IMAZ, I wanted Sergio to run a 2:50!!!
there’s a trail I usually run on where I’m positive the downhill is at least 25% if not more and I can run it midfoot no problem… I have to say I’ve always been a good downhill runner, though, if only races were all like that
More seriously, my training nemesis used to be totally horrible downhill and after a few months of consciously trying the higher-cadence/midfoot landing/lean forward technique he’s gotten a lot faster, why don’t you try it sometimes? Just lean forward and control speed by having your legs ‘slow down’ in a front-back way (vs using a heel strike to do it), you’re going to expend a lot less energy and go faster to boot. Your upper body won’t move very much, it’s as if you’re ‘gliding’ down the hill when you do it right.
anyway…this is a 1998 picture…my tech. is different now.
I’m sure my legs look like that… but my higher body fat hides the definition… that doesn’t mean my legs are chicken like or not strong… just that I’m fat
It a good thing he only showed us half a picture, sheeeeesh,
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