Someone once told me, “Just go out and run.” If your main aim is to enjoy running, that’s a perfectly sensible strategy to take. If your main aim is to stay fit for life, you may want to include some other types of training. Stretching, strength and mobility all play a part in our overallContinue reading “Is it really that simple?”
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Struggling to get started?
This guidance from Public Health England was published today (23rd January 2020), but it’s nothing new. Many people know that they should move more, but it can be hard to get started. This magical ‘moving more‘ doesn’t mean you have to go to Zumba three times a week or train for a marathon. Start withContinue reading “Struggling to get started?”
Take a look at yourself and make a change…
Did you make a New Year’s Resolution? How’s it going? Changing behaviour, especially if it’s become habitual, can be hard. There’s loads of research about how people change their habits and the stages we go through to make changes. I really like the behaviour change model which has been used here, by the Royal CollegeContinue reading “Take a look at yourself and make a change…”
On the importance of rest
Resting is when your body adapts, recovers and rebuilds to make it stronger. This will only happen if you stress your body in accordance with the adaptation you want to happen (e.g. if you want to get faster, you need to practice running faster) and you let your body make those tweaks. That’s why aContinue reading “On the importance of rest”
Can I compare thee…?
Running’s weird: races are all about who comes first, but so few people can realistically train for that level of success, why do the rest of us even bother?! I don’t mean for that to sound negative, but to serve as a reminder that our reasons are different: some people want to get faster; someContinue reading “Can I compare thee…?”
