sports massage
London marathon tips - 4 days to go!
Today is the last day I would schedule a thorough sports massage. Beyond this, it is a little bit too close to the race for anything but the lightest of going-overs, as anything deeper might leave you feeling sore, or lacking in energy. Ideally, use a therapist that you’ve used before, who will be 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 […]
Running Workshop on Sunday August 1st (Central London)
If you want to run faster, further and stay injury-free - or simply want to enjoy your running more - join me on this one-day workshop. We’ll be looking at running technique (with video analysis) and how to improve it, we’ll work on building running-specific strength and stability and we’ll cover proper warming up, effective […]
Here’s the rub
A recent study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine suggests that far from aiding circulation and assisting in the removal of lactic acid from muscles, sports massage actually slows down the process by as much as 25 per cent. Study author Dr Michael Tschavovsky, from Queen’s University in Canada, also dispels the myth […]