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Well you're one of the rare few to make the connection between IT Band pain and your dominant leg. Its caused by excessive outward rotation of the stronger leg. Shoes won't help.
The first step is to increase the strength differential between your two lower limbs if you have access to a gym.
The second step is to try what I call the masking tape exercise, and its posted here by one of my Navy SEAL students. The purpose is to teach you what optimum leg motion is supposed to feel like. If you can walk the tape line, you can use an incline treadmill to put your body under running cardio levels while still developing the coordination to remove your dominant limb turnout.
You can start here; I'm the Robert in his story and you're more than welcome to write me privately. OH, and Stew had IT Band issues as well and because the exercise and running technique based on the masking tape exercise, he no longer has the problem...
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Heya, if you could tell me your weekly mileage that would be useful. We can only resolve an issue once we have the underlying reasons for you IT Band Syndrome (I've had it before and it sucked -Jake
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Here is an interesting different perspective on IT issues. http://sequencewiz.org/2014/05/28/it-band-stretching-it-band-rolling-it-band-tightness/
Here is an interesting different perspective on IT issues.
http://sequencewiz.org/2014/05/28/it-band-stretching-it-band-rolling-it-band-tightness/
Who has time to do this, let alone watch that video. I feel like I've wasted half my day.