Brian Barney - Physical Therapist & Running Coach

Brian Barney - Physical Therapist & Running Coach I help runners exit the cycle of improper training & injury to lead them to running new PB’s.

Dr. Brian Barney grew up in South Holland, Illinois, a southern suburb of Chicago, with his parents and older brother. He played several different sports in his childhood but eventually settled on track & field as his main sport throughout high school. He then attended the University of Cincinnati, where he ran the 800 meters for the men’s track & field team and studied for his Bachelors of Scienc

e in Health Sciences. While he was a student at UC, Brian had the opportunity to work as a research assistant on research projects related to high intensity interval training for post-stroke patients. He served in several leadership roles as an undergraduate student, culminating in him receiving UC’s Presidential Leadership Medal of Excellence upon his graduation in 2015. After finishing his undergraduate degree, Dr. Barney attended the University of Kentucky to complete his Doctor of Physical Therapy degree. Dr. Barney’s doctoral research project was: “The Effectiveness of Nonoperative vs. Operative Treatment for Adult Athletic Pubalgia: A Systematic Review”. Brian also completed an internship at Shriner’s Hospital in Lexington, KY, where he performed walking gait analysis on children with cerebral palsy. He graduated from UK in 2018, and has worked in various settings including acute care, outpatient orthopedics, and home health. Brian also serves as an assistant coach for the William Mason High School boys’ cross country and track & field teams, where he primarily works with distance runners. Mason High School cross country is perennial contender for OHSAA state championships and have won the last two championships in 2021 and 2022. Dr. Barney specializes in treating runners, youth athletes, everyday active adults, and older adults with multiple health issues. Brian emphasizes building strong relationships with his patients and enjoys the challenge of personalizing each patient’s care to their goals and needs. If you’d like to take care of any injuries, pains, or loss of physical function, Dr. Barney would love to work with you! Follow this page if you're interested in:
- Insights from my own training and tips on how to properly progress your training
- Strengthening and mobility exercises for runners
- Strategies to reduce your risk for running injuries - becoming a more resilient runner
- How to return from and manage an injury safely
- Enjoying the journey of running training and racing
- Education on living a healthy lifestyle

If you really want to nail your race, you have to have a strategy for how you’re going to feed yourself for max performa...
05/02/2025

If you really want to nail your race, you have to have a strategy for how you’re going to feed yourself for max performance. This is especially true if you’ll be running for longer periods of time (2+ hours).⁣
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It’s not just carb-loading (although that is important), it’s also the content of the food, the timing of eating it, and knowing how your body will respond to it. ⁣
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Check out these do’s and don’ts for specific advice on eating before race day.⁣
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To everyone running the Flying Pig races this weekend: good luck!

Successful training is not just about how hard you can train, but it’s about how well you can recover from that training...
12/03/2024

Successful training is not just about how hard you can train, but it’s about how well you can recover from that training. It’s important to keep this in mind as 2024 ends and we naturally begin thinking about goals for 2025. ⁣
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You want to increase your weekly running mileage so you can shave a couple more minutes off of your half marathon personal best. Or maybe you want to start strength training or cross training to supplement your running. These are great ideas! But what are you going to do on the other side of the coin to recover from this increased amount of stress on your body? Will you aim to get 15-30 minutes more of sleep each night? Or maybe increase your protein intake?⁣
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One of my college track coaches would constantly tell us, “train hard, recover hard.” I wish I had taken his advice more seriously when I was running in college. Many people are willing to train harder to achieve increasingly faster race goals. But fewer people consistently commit themselves to what happens outside of the training runs. I didn’t take recovery seriously during my collegiate track career and saw the consequences of it.⁣
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Don’t let that be you! Let’s work together to do better in 2025. ⁣
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If this post resonates with you, give me a follow. I’ll be doing more education on what actually matters in terms of recovering from training. ⁣
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