Mobility Training, Best Practices, and Most Effective Active Stretches with Grayson Wickham DPT, CSCS

This week’s guest on the podcast is a doctor of physical therapy and owner of the Lux Physical Therapy and Medicine practice in New York. Dr. Grayson Wickham is a certified strength and conditioning specialist and creator of the Movement Vault app. He has worked with athletes in a wide variety of sports at the elite level, from Olympians to tennis pros to NFL and MLB players.

Grayson’s specialty is sports and orthopedic performance and injuries. He has dedicated his time and energy to helping his patients use mobility to become pain free in their athletic endeavors as well as in their daily lives.

Grayson and I discuss mobility work in depth and talk about the most effective practices for runners. We focus on:

• How Grayson developed an interest in mobility and injury resilience
• The differences between mobility and flexibility
• How we can add functional mobility to our training as runners
• The variety of ways that runners can gain mobility
• How cross training can help runners learn new movement patterns
• What it means to have active joint mobility
• Grayson’s favorite dynamic stretches

If you are trying to understand how mobility work can benefit your training, be sure to check out this episode!

Links & Resources from the Show:

• Learn more about Grayson
• Check out the Movement Vault 
• Connect with Grayson on LinkedIn
• Follow Grayson on Instagram
• Invest in Strength Running training program here

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