2 reasons you might be experiencing calf pain when running.

If you've ever experienced calf pain while running, you know how frustrating it can be! We often stretch or foam roll the crap out of our calves then find someone to strip the calf muscles to reduce the tension. That's great but what if I told you the possible reason for your calf pain had nothing to do with your calves?

Sure your calves are tight! The tension is undeniable! But that's when I wonder why. Why are your calves so tight? There has to be a reason. Muscles don't just become tight and painful for no reason do they?

Here are 2 reasons you might be experiencing calf pain when running:

1. Your calves could be over working to stabilize your hips as you transfer your weight from side to side as you pass between one foot and the other. If you lack hip stabilization from your glute muscles like glute med, min, or max, your body will recruit other muscles like the ones in your calves to help execute the movement.

2. You have a history of ankle injuries like rolled or sprained ankles. Just because it happened to you in your past doesn’t mean the injury is not still with you. Our bodies store that injury and then compensate by moving around it. Eventually, that sprained ankle you had 10 years ago pops it’s nasty compensating head back out so you finally address the original mechanism of injury.

Pain tells you there's a probelm. It doesn't tell you where the problem is.