If, like many people these days, you are desk bound for the majority of your working day the hip flexors and the lateral hip muscle complex is at serious risk of being over tight and/or chronically shortened. These have the ability to pull your lower back into extension which we don’t want but in running … Read more
Every running magazine or blog has at one point or another told you to improve glute strength for better running. And with good reason too. The Glute Medius plays a huge role in the running gait both in injury prevention and performance. Its main job in the stance phase of running is to stabilise and … Read more
There are plenty of reasons injury and pain occurs during running and plenty of areas that runners can feel pain so ideally, we should look at ways to prevent or at least minimise these common complaints. Over the next few weeks I’ll try to post some prevention exercises for the more common injury sites but … Read more