Mike Ryan is an expert in the Sports Medicine field. Mike's objective for MikeRyanFitness.com is simple: to provide athletes with elite sports medicine information that is easy to learn, simple to use and creates fast results.
Smart Injury Free Mud Run Racing
This Saturday’s Tough Mudder- Jacksonville is coming to town with lots of hype. Known for it’s very original and tough-guy obstacles, the Tough Mudder has the local mudders nervous and excited….myself included. For those of you preparing for your first race in the mud, you’re about to embark on the best workout and challenge of your [...]
How I Got My Ass Kicked in a Mud Run
Last weekend was the big local mud run, the MuckFest MS here in Jacksonville, Florida. It’s a great event thoroughly embraced by the local community to raising money for Multiple Sclerosis. This was my fifth year in a row running the wonderful event. Last year I won the competitive division so I was very excited [...]
Healthy Attitude + Healthy Habits = Living The Dream
I ran 10 miles yesterday morning with Dawn, Beth, Kevin and Rob. It’s a great group of runners and even better people. They’re optimistic, energetic, healthy, humorous and fast: just the type of workout partners I need to motivate me to get out of bed at 4 AM. As I listened to their stories yesterday morning, something became [...]
Pre-Race “To Do’s” for Your Best Running Race
I’m ready to go for tomorrow’s Donna Breast Cancer 1/2 Marathon here in Jacksonville, FL. Both the 1/2 marathon and the full marathon are wildly popular races for so many reasons. It draws the elite runners and, more importantly, it attracts athletes of all ages with the simple goal of finishing the race to both [...]
NFL Players’ Access to Certified Athletic Trainers in High Schools
I often talk to our Jacksonville Jaguars players about their past experience with injuries and sports medicine care. From their days playing ball in midget football to the NFL, they’ve had wide-ranging sports medicine experiences from the outstanding treatment to bizarre home remedies. Fellow Professional Football Athletic Trainers Society (PFATS) members and I collected the [...]
