One of the best things that has come out of my knee injury is buying / starting / using David Grey’s hip program. Having looked at my movement, ascertaining just how weak my right hip is & discovering no improvement post snowboarding I decided to buy David’s new Hip program to help try and resolve … Continue reading David Grey Hip program
I recently had a setback running – something new that I’d not experienced before. A little frustrating when my training felt good and I had just made one of those breakthroughs, where you can feel the work pushing you onto somewhere new. However this at the cost of too much, too close together, when not … Continue reading Unpeeling Layers
I added my thoughts recently on a discussion around strength training and what I wish I’d known when I started. Looking back on the comments they made for a nice set of ideas that I wanted to draw together here: First what I have learnt / wish I knew: The first few pieces of advice … Continue reading S&C, what I’ve learnt (or wish I knew) and why
I’ve been thinking about all of the impact that the pelvis has on movement – realising that if I’ve learnt anything over the last 4-5 years is just how little I do actually know. With this in mind the first thing I wanted to do was take a closer look at the pelvis itself (leading … Continue reading The staggering pelvis
I’ve ben enjoying running again, mostly easy post the Snowdon experience, with the odd weekly faster session thrown in. During Saturday’s I could feel my right calf begin to tighten – reaching the point where I stopped just at the point where it would have been too overloaded. Thankfully a perfect stopping point. It felt … Continue reading Why one calf and not the other?
I bought this great model of a foot recently – it’s a lot of fun to play around with and get a better feel / understanding of how the bones in the feet move and the knock on impact this has on the muscles / tendons that are attached. One of the areas I’ve been … Continue reading The foot & achilles
I seriously hurt my back last Monday. Carrying out deadlifts, I wasn’t completely focused on the lift and when I stood up rather than use my legs / glutes to take me through the exercise I left this to my lower back. I immediately felt an uncomfortable stretch of the muscles in my lower back … Continue reading Constructive rest
I was asked about stretching around a month ago – when to do it, how to do it, what to do and it made me consider what I do, what I like to do and why. This corresponded with an Andrew Huberman podcast I had listened to (which is here) that chimed with my own … Continue reading Stretching & Mobility
As marathon season is approaching quickly and many runners weekends are taken up with longer runs, I’m just happy to be able to train in a normal manner – I ran for the furthest I’ve run in four months on Sunday. Whilst nothing massive, (16km) as it was coupled within a 4 day running streak … Continue reading Recovering – what I like
After resting for 2 weeks, when I did eventual get back to running it went straight away – a case of too much too soon, not enough elsewhere, any and all of the above – who knows. What then followed was a full day of incredible frustration and grumpiness (which I decided to sit with … Continue reading Rehabbing my calf
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