If you’re training for a marathon or an event how do you imagine you’ll be when you can see the finish line? Staggering towards it and collapsing in exhaustion at the end? Or using every last ounce of energy you have to sprint towards it and get the best time you can? If it’s the latter then we can help!…
The last few months have been spent thinking about training, doing training, planning the next training run. “Training, training, training”. Now though is the time to do anything but hard training. This is because the miles you run over the last 3-4 months are now in the bank, and need to wait there until the start line. This doesn’t mean…
We all already know that eating five fruit and vegetables a day is important for our bodies. If you’re training for a marathon, or doing any sort of regular exercise, are you aware of what you should be eating to give your body the best chance of sustaining you? What you eat will help your body to recover efficiently. Training…
With just a few weeks to go until 40,000 people line up for the London Marathon, you’ll be well into your training by now, and running up to 18-20 miles. But sometimes those long training runs can feel, well, just so long. They take up the best part of a day, and when you wake up under your warm duvet…
You’ve got your training plan all mapped out. You know how far your runs should be in the build up to the marathon. You know that with a month to go you should be running up to 22 miles. Building up the hours in your legs is crucial to completing, and enjoying, the marathon, but what else can you add…
If you’re running this year’s London Marathon on 24th April, you’ll have already started your training for it. As the training increases in its intensity and the runs get longer, the risk of injury can increase too, especially if you’re not a seasoned runner. Regular runners know that it can be unusual to be running without any sort of niggle. …
Are you off on a skiing holiday this winter, but feeling slightly nervous about your fitness prior to hitting the slopes? If yes, you could benefit from taking some prehab sessions before you depart for the airport. What’s prehab?Prehab is the opposite of rehab, in that you do it before you start training, or going on an acitivity holiday, like…
Do you have a track record of setting new year’s resolutions on the 1st January, and then forgetting about them by February? If this is THE year you’re going to get fit (or fitter), and you don’t want to be wondering how you’re going to commit to your goal for the whole year, then bear in mind these six tips…
We’ve all heard of rehab for your body. You get an injury, you see a specialist, they give you some rehabilitation exercises and you get better. But have you heard of prehabilitation (prehab)? What is prehab? How can it benefit you? Why prehab?Prehab is the opposite of rehab, in that you start it before you commence a new exercise regime. …
