recovery
Find it hard to run slow? Form may be a factor…
When I am prescribing running programmes for my clients, I give them a ‘pace guideline’ for each of the different types of run they do. Some of them will have recovery runs in their schedules, where the object is to keep the pace and effort level really low. The goal here is for the session […]
Run and recover - 110% compression + ice gear on test
If you are running London this weekend, it is a safe bet to say you’ll have some muscle soreness come Monday. We know ice helps to alleviate inflammation, as does compression – so a product that promises to provide both at once sounds like a good idea. That’s the idea behind the 110% Compression Gear range. The […]
Sports massage works
Sports massage has always been part of my injury prevention and recovery strategy – and now a new study, from McMaster University in Canada, suggests that the benefits aren’t just psychological. In the study, cyclists rode to exhaustion and then had one leg massaged while the other was left alone. Biopsies were taken from the […]
Marathon wisdom part 3: cross-training
Lots of budding marathoners include cross-training in their programmes - largely because many marathon training schedules tell them to. I’m all for cross-training, but you need to know what its purpose is in your schedule. Is it supposed to be a recovery session? (In which case, that intense Spinning class isn’t really fitting the bill…) […]