The new 10% rule: the #1 predictor of running injury risk

03/10/2025 8 min

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Episode Synopsis

The study:How much running is too much? Identifying high-risk running sessions in a 5200-person cohort study https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/59/17/1203Brady’s newsletter breaking it down…https://runlongrunhealthy.substack.com/p/run-long-run-healthy-how-much-running00:00 Intro - The “How Much Running Is Too Much Study?”01:15 Critiquing the classic 10% rule of running02:21 The New Study, explained03:30 Single Session Spike method04:13 The Findings04:51 The “single session paradigm”05:07 Time to ditch the classic 10% rule?05:58 Why the data doesn’t support the classic 10% rule07:14 Our takeaways from the new study