Continue reading “Slowly, slowly, catchy monkey (How to avoid getting injured)”
The big issue that is often forgotten about is, and let’s be honest, running is hard work.
Running at a moderate pace you are looking at 1200-1500 steps in a kilometre.
On an easy run, the forces that we absorb are around 3 times body weight on each foot strike. Or around 320,000kg, strictly speaking, it’s 320,00N but we’ll stick to a measurement we can all relate to.
Continue reading “Running Repairs – a guide to successful running”
Dealing with injuries sucks. In fact, it sucks big time.
I’m currently dealing with 4 minor niggles handily spread evenly across my body.
Left elbow
Right shoulder
Left achilles
Right hamstring.
I could have soldiered on and got by keeping them at bay but I decided that a bit of deferred gratification was required. Continue reading “Serving two masters – dealing with injuries”
How do you stay active with knee pain?
Your knee starts to hurt but not enough to really stop you doing anything so you crack on with things. Then the pain gradually gets worse until you have to stop. Continue reading “How To Stay Active With Knee Pain”
Golf and back pain don’t quite go together like bread and jam but back pain in golfers is common. One of the biggest reasons for back pain in golfers is an inability to generate sufficient force into the ground. In fact, it’s not just the ability to create this force but to maintain it through the swing that is the big factor.
Golf is a sport of extremes in terms of movement. There isn’t really another sport that requires you to maximise your rotation in the manner golf does. Any kinks or flaws will reduce your ability to rotate. Continue reading “Golf And Back Pain”
Are frustrated by knee pain when you are running? One thing you may not have thought of as important is the strength of your calf muscles.
The muscles in the lower leg absorb a lot of force when you are running. Continue reading “Knee Pain When Running – What’s Missing?”
ITB pain or ITB syndrome, call it what you will, is a very common complaint amongst runners. Yet most runners don’t understand what is actually happening that causes the pain or what to do about it. Continue reading “What’s The Biggest Obstacle Runners With ITB Pain Face?”
There are more than 3 but will stick to the 3 biggies that I see on a regular basis.
I injured myself in mid November last year. Nothing serious just a mild grade 1 tear in vastus lateralis, one of your quads, when doing some heavy squats. I took it easy for a couple of weeks and gradually worked back into things. I then tore it again in the first week in January! To say I was not happy would be an understatement.
Continue reading “Practising what you preach – graded exposure and progressive overload in rehab”
It’s that time of year when flushed with the desire to get back to it after a bit of a break over the festive period can result in you getting injured. Avoiding injuries is paramount to any kind of sustainable progress, even more so as we get older. Given that you are always likely to pick one up at some point it rather than fire back into things after the holidays it’s a far better idea to ease yourself back into things.
I did this myself November and wasted about 3 weeks of training, though thankfully no injury. I say thankfully as I was coming back from a slight quad tear. It took me 3 weeks to realise that I needed to adjust things down. The rest period I had just had was on the back of having peaked as well as the quad tear. As a result, I had the general deconditioning that occurs after a rest period plus there was the normal drop in performance from the peak itself.
