fong520 wrote:cdmilton wrote:"shin splints" can be caused by many different things. For example: worn out shoes, hard training surface, inbalance in calf strength and I am sure many other things. What has helped for me is when I do my endurance running I focus on keeping my toes up. This provides the muscles in the shin with a killer workout and makes them stronger which should help the situation. There is also a piece of equipment that can help too:
I'm no expert but these methods have helped me. Hopefully others will chime in and offer their ideas.
i agree with all of that.. ive gotten shin splints from shoes and hard surfaces and stuff.i used to get them really bad from playing basketball and like if the ball would ever even just bounce into my shin id be ont eh ground heh.. but ya some things u can do is ice adn advil. for the shoes ur only supposed to have like 300-400 miles or so from what ive heard b4 u should get new ones.
new shoes can help, just remember the 3-400 miles rule is probably related to distance running, so, if thats all you do in shoes then the rule will work, but vault training, that is, sprinting, bound, jumping, running bleachers, probably the cleans and stuff we do will wear out shoes much much quicker than running distance, so even though we dont go as far as distance runners in our shoes we will wear them out very fast. ideally you should probably get new shoes every season. fall, indoor, outdoor, summer, and probably spikes every year.
what ive found works for shin splints is a certain "balm" that happens to have a "tiger" on the box
