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University of Cape Town, South Africa
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Buist I, Bredeweg SW, van Mechelen W, et al. Am J Sports Med 2008;36:33–9.
Distance running is associated with a risk of developing a running-related injury — risk factors for these injuries include training errors, with a rapid increase in running volume as a common "training error".
Is a graded training programme for novice runners associated with a reduced risk of running injury when compared with a standard training programme?
Subjects: 352 injury-free (no injury in last 3 months) novice (no running in previous 12 months) runners (39.8 (SD 10.1) years, female = 57.5%) who were preparing for a recreational 6.7 km running event.
Experimental procedure: All the subjects underwent baseline assessment, and were then randomly (stratified for injury history, gender, sporting activity) assigned to either a standard 8 week training programme (CON = 268) or a graded, 13 week training programme (TR = 264, increasing
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