Date: April 12-13, 2025
Location: Lakewood, CO
Instructors: Jay Dicharry, Physical Therapist
Carrie Lane, Sport Performance Coach
Location: Lakewood, CO
Instructors: Jay Dicharry, Physical Therapist
Carrie Lane, Sport Performance Coach
“When can I run again?” If you’re a clinician, you’ve heard this question more times than you can count.
This course utilizes the combined 50 years of practical application from a physical therapist and a performance coach. We will teach you the nuts and bolts of helping runners return from injury better. Faster. Stronger. Smarter.
Today's athletes want to know about run form, training intensities, strength programming, periodization, and trending performance hacks. If you don’t have solid answers, you’re already behind. This course is here to fix that.
We’re ditching the outdated “entry point to discharge” rehab model. Your runner’s finish line isn’t the end of their PT visits—it’s their next PR. Their next race. Their next breakthrough. Through practical application and observation, this course will help you identify key markers of running form, progress appropriate training modalities, and program and periodize strength, speed, and plyometric activities through the rehab process and into the performance world.
We blend the perspectives of a physical therapist and a performance coach, seeking to rewire the way you work with runners. You’ll build a deep understanding of tissue architecture, musculoskeletal assessment, and biomechanics for maximal and submaximal running speeds. You’ll learn how to spot movement inefficiencies and "energy leaks" and develop a model to address them. You’ll apply principles of biomechanics, training periodization, speed development, and program design—actually building programs hands-on, in real time.
Expect biases to be shattered. Expect your thinking to be flipped upside down. Expect to walk away with the tools to not just rehab runners, but to optimize them.
If you call yourself a running specialist, you need this course. Period.
This course utilizes the combined 50 years of practical application from a physical therapist and a performance coach. We will teach you the nuts and bolts of helping runners return from injury better. Faster. Stronger. Smarter.
Today's athletes want to know about run form, training intensities, strength programming, periodization, and trending performance hacks. If you don’t have solid answers, you’re already behind. This course is here to fix that.
We’re ditching the outdated “entry point to discharge” rehab model. Your runner’s finish line isn’t the end of their PT visits—it’s their next PR. Their next race. Their next breakthrough. Through practical application and observation, this course will help you identify key markers of running form, progress appropriate training modalities, and program and periodize strength, speed, and plyometric activities through the rehab process and into the performance world.
We blend the perspectives of a physical therapist and a performance coach, seeking to rewire the way you work with runners. You’ll build a deep understanding of tissue architecture, musculoskeletal assessment, and biomechanics for maximal and submaximal running speeds. You’ll learn how to spot movement inefficiencies and "energy leaks" and develop a model to address them. You’ll apply principles of biomechanics, training periodization, speed development, and program design—actually building programs hands-on, in real time.
Expect biases to be shattered. Expect your thinking to be flipped upside down. Expect to walk away with the tools to not just rehab runners, but to optimize them.
If you call yourself a running specialist, you need this course. Period.
This course will offer Physical Therapy CEU's (total hours pending)
Course Schedule
Participants will receive 3 hrs of pre-course education modules to be completed ahead of the live course, that will help lay a foundation to dive deeper in person together. These modules will be:
A. Microanatomy - a tissue based approach
B. Footwear - what have we learned and where are we headed
C. Basics of Plyometric + Sprint Training Program Design
A. Microanatomy - a tissue based approach
B. Footwear - what have we learned and where are we headed
C. Basics of Plyometric + Sprint Training Program Design
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Saturday Apr 12, 8 am- 5 pm
8-8:40- Intro 8:45-10- Run Dynamics and Musculoskeletal Screening 10-11:30- MSK Assessment Lab 11:30-noon- Building Power for Running Speed Noon- 1- LUNCH 1-3- Plyometrics: why, what, when 3-4- Rebuilding the Foot 4-5- Foot Assessment and Mobility Lab |
Sunday Apr 13, 8 am- 4pm
8-9:30- Special Topics in Running + Tissue Dosage 9:30-11:30- Speed Training + Workload Progression around the Force Velocity Curve 11:30-12:30- LUNCH 12:30-1:15 – Trunk/hip/knee correctives 1:15 – 2:15- The Mesocycle: Programming to meet your runner’s demands 2:15- 3:20- Speed training and mechanics 3:20-4- Run Cues 4pm- Wrap Up! |
Course Objectives
- Develop a working understanding of the biomechanics of running gait
- Identify the key skill development of running for which we must train.
- Develop a working understanding of gait as a holistic model of causative mechanics, rather than isolated symptoms.
- Understand how the ground reaction force influences the bioenergetics of running gait and how to train for improved athletic capacity.
- Understand how contact style, cadence, contact time, and stiffness influence form.
- Develop an understanding of the nervous system’s role in improving precision movement and power development
- Identify the 3 essential criteria for proper foot function
- Identify motion block in within the foot and how they impair function
- Identify compensatory stabilization patterns that causes various lower leg pathologies, and how to restore proper LQ function
- Understand the purpose and use of orthotics in a treatment plan
- Understand the impact of running shoes on gait with respect to both injury and performance
- Plan a schedule of training phases to control the training stimuli, reduce the variables, progress physical qualities
- Utilize the eccentric side of the force-velocity curve during specific phases of return to run.
- Integrate appropriate doses and modalities of speed training during the rehab process to prioritize elasticity, coordination, and adaptation.
- Understand the nuances of the nervous system adaptations to strength and plyometric training to ensure that you are using each effectively at the right times in the season.
- Be able to dose and apply specific mobility, stability, strength, and power exercises and drills to optimize athletic capacity, with an understanding of its specific impact on running gait.
- Deliver specific movement cues to ensure skill transfer into maximal speed and submaximal speed running.
- Develop competency to assemble periodized strength and conditioning plans for running-specific gains and effective endocrine responses
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A note from Carrie and Jay:
It takes teamwork to make dreams into reality. To gift our runners the best shot at success, we need to bridge the gap between clinical care and performance coaching. And this course does just that. We have been in the trenches time and time again. We’ve worked with weekend warriors, high schoolers, collegiate runners, and elite professionals. We’ve helped runners hit a new PR, qualify for districts, Nationals, Olympics, World Champs, and even set World Records. Our goal is to share this framework to help your runners hit their own goals. If you’ve got a solid grasp on the fundamentals but want to level up- if you want to know what it takes to help runners WIN – we hope you’ll join us this April in Colorado. This course isn’t just about rehab. Its about results. |
About the Instructors
Jay Dicharry, MPT, SCS
Jay completed his Masters of Physical Therapy at Louisiana State University Medical Center and is a Board-certified Sports Clinical Specialist. His career blurs the line between clinical practice, coaching, + engineering to solve problems and optimize performance. He built his reputation in biomechanical analysis as Director of the SPEED Clinic at the University of Virginia and is the Founder of MOBO. Jay literally wrote the book(s) on running gait: he is author of “Running Rewired” and "Anatomy for Runners" and writes for digital and print media. Jay enjoys an active research career, published over thirty-five professional journal articles and book chapters, consults for the running and cycling industry, the US Armed Forces, USA Track and Field, USA Triathlon. He's worked with over 50 Olympians, and numerous World Champions, Professional Teams, and extreme sport athletes across the globe. Having taught in the Sports Medicine program at the University of Virginia and now at Oregon State University-Cascades, he brings a strong bias towards patient education, and teaches internationally to elevate the standard of care for Therapists, Physicians, and Coaches. He's continuing to ask better questions to get better outcomes for his students and patients.
Jay completed his Masters of Physical Therapy at Louisiana State University Medical Center and is a Board-certified Sports Clinical Specialist. His career blurs the line between clinical practice, coaching, + engineering to solve problems and optimize performance. He built his reputation in biomechanical analysis as Director of the SPEED Clinic at the University of Virginia and is the Founder of MOBO. Jay literally wrote the book(s) on running gait: he is author of “Running Rewired” and "Anatomy for Runners" and writes for digital and print media. Jay enjoys an active research career, published over thirty-five professional journal articles and book chapters, consults for the running and cycling industry, the US Armed Forces, USA Track and Field, USA Triathlon. He's worked with over 50 Olympians, and numerous World Champions, Professional Teams, and extreme sport athletes across the globe. Having taught in the Sports Medicine program at the University of Virginia and now at Oregon State University-Cascades, he brings a strong bias towards patient education, and teaches internationally to elevate the standard of care for Therapists, Physicians, and Coaches. He's continuing to ask better questions to get better outcomes for his students and patients.
Carrie Lane, MS, CSCS
Carrie is the Director of Strength and Speed Training for the Under Armour Mission Run Baltimore professional distance running groups. In this role she implements strength, speed, and rehab programming for professional distance runners competing in the 800m to the half marathon.
Throughout her 25 year coaching career, she has coached multiple track and field medalists at the NCAA, National, and World level. Most recently, she was the strength and speed coach and massage therapist for the group’s three 2024 Olympians. She was also a US National Team Coach for three World Championships Track and Field Teams.
Carrie started her coaching career training distance runners and then transitioned to coaching throwers. She coached 24 first team (top 8 at NCAA Nationals) All Americans while mentoring throwers at University of Nebraska, University of Virginia, and University of Wyoming. Now that she is back in the endurance world, she applies her knowledge of speed and power training to the runners that she mentors. She is also an instructor for the USTFCCCA (United States TF/Cross Country Coaches Association) Academy, where she teaches other coaches about periodized training design, weight training, and biomechanics.
Carrie is the Director of Strength and Speed Training for the Under Armour Mission Run Baltimore professional distance running groups. In this role she implements strength, speed, and rehab programming for professional distance runners competing in the 800m to the half marathon.
Throughout her 25 year coaching career, she has coached multiple track and field medalists at the NCAA, National, and World level. Most recently, she was the strength and speed coach and massage therapist for the group’s three 2024 Olympians. She was also a US National Team Coach for three World Championships Track and Field Teams.
Carrie started her coaching career training distance runners and then transitioned to coaching throwers. She coached 24 first team (top 8 at NCAA Nationals) All Americans while mentoring throwers at University of Nebraska, University of Virginia, and University of Wyoming. Now that she is back in the endurance world, she applies her knowledge of speed and power training to the runners that she mentors. She is also an instructor for the USTFCCCA (United States TF/Cross Country Coaches Association) Academy, where she teaches other coaches about periodized training design, weight training, and biomechanics.
