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Mandy Reul

Mandy Reul

Sports chiropractor and running specialist at Performance Place Sports Care, former NCAA Division I runner at UC Davis, and head coach of Long Beach Poly girls cross country.

Aug 14, 2026

RowanHOST
10:46
So, so in your experience, what is one thing you would sort of say that trail runners tend to get wrong when it comes to managing their own bodies?
10:57
Yeah.
10:57
I'm, I...
10:58
You will hear this a million times from me, so [laughs] apologies in advance for the repetitiveness, but, uh, strength training needs to be happening.
11:06
Whether you are trail running, hiking, mountaineering, if you're outside moving your body in weird ways and demanding lots of effort from it, you need to be strength training.
11:16
It prevents so much.
11:18
I always have my patients end our treatment with that, uh, so by the time that we're, you know, they're feeling good and I'm gonna kick them out because they, they should just be going and having fun, they need to be doing strength training so that they don't land back with me.

10 MINS LATER

RowanHOST
21:50
... how would you go about that? How would you navigate that conversation, that adjustment? Obviously everyone's different, but like as a general whole, how do you adjust things to help them move forward, um, without stopping altogether?

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