Delayed-Onset Muscle Soreness is very common with beginners and even experienced runners, particularly if you are beginning a new programme or changing intensity or length of your training. Muscle soreness can be felt for over 48 hours after an activity. As well as soreness you may experience fatigue, weakness and muscle stiffness. This is completely […]
We all have different running styles and that’s ok, we can’t all run like Bolt! Unfortunately most styles are forced upon us by weaknesses in our body , specially in the muscles that stabilise our legs. Any exercises to strengthen these muscles will help improve your running style and make you faster/stronger runner and reduce […]
The Three reasons why I won Shrewsbury parkrun 2015 Male points table competition: 1-Strength Training & Recovery Just running is not enough if you want stay injury free and run various competitions, overall body strengthening is a must and allow time for body to recover, make a weekly plan for training runs and gym workouts […]
Hello Runners I often hear from people I train how tight and sore their hamstrings feel before, during & after workouts or runs. Hamstrings are muscles that are often weak, that’s why they feel sore, giving the impression that they are tight. Together with the gluteus group, their weakness will cause other muscles in our […]
Platanes, Crete 8am, sun already blaring!! Don’t know how hot it is but all I know is it’s now or it’s another day without running, and I have this need to run. Temperatures will reach 28c later on. Armed with my Garmin and iPhone for music and Strava I jog to the beach which is […]
Saturday morning 8.45 am, The Quarry Park, Shrewsbury and Parkrun will start in 15 minutes. I look around and see roughly 300 runners of all ages, shapes and sizes. The fastest runners, the ones that start at the front and regularly finish in the top 20 have done some of the routines that every runner […]
Hey Runners To bling or not to bling ? that is the Question ! Silly question really, my policy is : No Medal No Race, with the exception of Parkrun, but “they” say Parkrun is not a race it’s a run, really? yeah yeah! will talk about that another time 🙂 My first ever race […]
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Heyyyy Road Runners ! ( and all other runners too ) When I first started running it felt like I’ve been in a cage all my life and all of a sudden I was freed .. It felt like I owned the pavements, I would just go out there and improvise the route, didn’t care […]
Heyyy Runners ! It’s Friday night or as I prefer to call it “Parkrun Eve’s” night . Will be talking soon about Parkrun but tonight I want to talk about how I caught the bug, the “running bug”. I bet you can all remember your first ever “road run” , what do you mean you […]
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