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How to Learn From Any Injury (So You Stay Healthier) with Physiotherapist Brodie Sharpe

The Strength Running Podcast

Release Date: 11/13/2025

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Brodie Sharpe is a physiotherapist, the host of the Run Smarter Podcast, and author of Run Smarter.

As a Physical therapist who specializes in endurance runners, Brodie Sharpe takes a holistic approach to injury prevention. He helps runners learn how to correct mistakes and work with their bodies to get healthy. Brodie emphasizes the importance of looking at training as well as your lifestyle around it, since every aspect of what you do impacts how you feel and perform.

This episode focuses on how to learn from a running injury:

  • how to figure out what caused it

  • the training changes needed to prevent it from recurring

  • how to update your preparation to make yourself more resilient

  • what to do if you can't figure out the reason + and a lot more

To learn more about the process of staying healthy (there's a strategy!), get our free prevention series here.

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