Running Rewired: Reinvent Your Run for Stability, Strength, and Speed, 2nd Edition Paperback – April 30, 2024

I strength train competitive distance runners, a number of them former D1 athletes working towards Olympic trial qualifying times. I've been helping them stay injury free during their training cycles and have been using lots of Jay's principles. I read Anatomy for Runners, loved it, and was looking forward to reading this book. This book has come in very handy and has helped me develop an effective strength program for my athletes. After 6 months, my athletes have gotten significantly stronger, their gait and running posture has improved, speed has improved, and above all they have stayed injury free despite high volume mileage and rigorous training schedules.I'd highly recommend this book to all runners. If you are plagued with injuries because of running chances are you need to work on more strength training. This book is a great place to start. If you can find a trainer who also appreciates Jay's work and can help you implement a strength program, even better. Thanks for sharing this book with the world, Jay!

I bought this after a knee injury sidelined me from running and realized that I need to do more strength training. I have been faithfully doing the strength training and various routines for about 6 months. I have definitely gotten stronger, and my stride has gotten more efficient (per my Garmin running dynamic stats), even though I haven't directly worked on my stride. Doing the exercises has helped to affect that change just by strengthing and cueing the right muscles.I almost returned this book when I first got it because I was intimidated by some of the equipment. However I realized that some of it can be purchased relatively inexpensively, some of it I use at the gym, and some things (like a sling trainer) I just substitute different exercises for. Even if you don't have all of the equipment, you can still get a lot out of this book using what you do have.

Very helpful book and I love the exercises at the back. I only wish they had a summary of each workout circuit that fit on a page so I could take one picture and use it to guide my workout. I don’t bring the book to the gym so have a million pictures on my phone of the workouts.

I bought this bok while I was suffering from overuse injuries during my first half training cycle. I didn’t realize at the time what I had done, but I knew I was in some pain but wasn’t sure what the deal was. This book helped me figure out what was going on, some exercises to relieve some of the pain, set me on the path to recovering, and how to prevent in the future.There is a lot of information here, but it is well-organized and very easy to follow. There are so many color photos of people doing the exercise that it really helps you get a handle on what to do.For me, hands down the most valuable part of this book are the charts and diagrams. If you are a visual learner like me, it really helps boil it down to easily understandable concepts.

I came upon this title sort of accidentally as I was buying the Hansen's Marathon Method and FIRST (Run Less Run Faster) books in preparation for some prospective races this year. Reading through it, I found it absolutely fascinating. But putting these ideas into practice seems completely overwhelming. I love data. And this book is full of data. I love ideas to improve my running technique. This book is full of ideas to do so. But the suggestions come with potential pitfalls. I'd love to try them, but I don't want to risk getting injured or making something worse.11 self-tests for joint mobility, posture stability, rotation, and alignment (these are great, but maybe better performed with an input-providing partner)83 exercises to fix blocks, move with precision, build strength, and improve power (choosing one to use - eek!)15 rewire workouts to amplify any training plan from 5K to ultramarathon (I love this, but it takes away from my already on the edge of potential injury current workouts)In summary, I can't wait to read through this book again (and again) and hope to try some of its suggestions to improve my running skills, but the sheer volume of information is as awesome as it is overwhelming.

So far so good. Just received the book a few days ago. It has some incredible exercises that I have never seen before. Some are familiar and some, for me, are incredibly hard! I know my hips are not stable and for that, I am injured a lot recently. The book has good explanations of the exercises, then it puts them into specific routines to be used within various training cycles which is very helpful. It would be nice to have a video companion for my phone, as paging through the book is cumbersome. I'll probably snap photos for ease of use while learning. Spiral bound would be nice as would pull out posters of the sequences. Some of the exercises are difficult to follow even with pix and descriptions, so more resources (and it's probably there already) would be nice.

This could be an easy read or a difficult read depending on how much you want to know and retain.Pros: easy and simple exercisesCould just reference Chapter 11Cons: lots of story telling repetitively,creating arguments against other researchers somewhat unnecessary,always trying to prove his opinions by all his years of experience and research.Summary:I won't return it since I read the whole thing.I wouldn't recommend for $20. Just alot of words with a few exercises. If you want to be a better runner this book is lacking. If you want lots of exercises for creating your own warm ups/cool down/ strength training its lacking. The main message be mindful of the complete movement of running, enforce your body to utilize it, and if there are any imbalances or unutilzed mechanics do the exercises.Just not for me, maybe for others ???