I’m going to be honest, this post and its video is fairly geeky!
You may have heard of the Acute Chronic Workload Ratio (ACWR) which became popular following interesting research from Tim Gabbett and colleagues. Their work suggested there was a ‘sweet spot’ for injury prevention with a ACWR of 0.8 to 1.3.
Up until now though there wasn’t much evidence specific to runners but a new study by Nakaoka et al. (2021) has some surprising findings! We explore this, what ACWR is and how to calculate it and its role in load management and injury prevention in our video below. So you if don’t mind getting your geek on, dive in and enjoy it!..
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