4 Tips To Avoid Overuse Injuries
Before you can consider preventing overuse injuries occurring, you need to consider why overuse injuries occur in the first place. You place your body under physical stress through activity and exercise which is beneficial to our bones, muscles, tendons and ligaments making us stronger. During the re-modelling process there is a build up and breakdown […]
When Do You Need To Replace Your Shoes?
Imagine This Scenario You have just started to train for a marathon. Your first few months of training have been going quite well up until last night when you started to experience pain in your feet and knees. You have never experienced an injury before this first occurrence, which makes you wonder, why now? You […]
Will I Get Stress Fractures From Running?
Running is a great form of exercise but is a high impact physical activity and stress fractures can occur due to this BUT it is not the case for all runners. Stress fractures are small cracks in the bone caused by repetitive stress or force. Some causes of stress fractures are; poor bio-mechanics, over-training, doing […]
Why I Think It Is Important To Wear A Good Running Shoe For Exercise
Most people wear runners for their physical activity, and can wear these runners for too long without updating the shoe for long periods such as 2+ years. This can cause injury as the technology in the shoe wears down with wear and stops being effective. It is important to update your running shoes every 700-800kms, including walking and all activity […]
10 Tips to Prevent Running Injuries
To perform at your best you need to be training at your best. It is important while running that you avoid injuries from occurring. More often than not, runners don’t understand why they continuously develop running injuries. I’ve provided you with 10 simple tips to make sure your next run is injury free. 1. […]
Changing Your Running Shoes
Knowing when to change your running shoes is very important. Your running shoes are designed to provide you with support and protection while you undertake your next run. Like most shoes your running shoes will eventually need to be changed due to wear and tear. Your runners often tend to be worn out due to […]