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Running: Master Your Stride
By on 04/05/2011 09:44:57
If you don't know how to run, you'll never be the triathlete you want to be
tends to mean you are landing heel first, with a straight leg extended in front of you. This transfers impact through your heel and knees and into your hips, placing great strain on your lower body. When you run your feet should land under your body
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Will a hernia really stop me running for 9 months?
By Andrew Caldwell on 09/09/2000 10:02:10
Our experts answer real-life questions
. This in turn causes sharp, intense pain that limits hip movement, and any activity requiring contraction of the muscles around the abdomen or hip, or that increases the pressure within your abdomen such as coughing, sneezing or going to the toilet. While
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Mini-test: Running Rucksacks
By Runner's World on 02/06/2005 15:14:09
You should barely notice you're wearing a good running rucksack. RW reviews Ultimate Direction Speedemon 2300, Lowe Alpine Contour Runner and Salomon Fastrack 200
the wide opening bag, then there’s an expanding back pocket, a zippable top pocket, mesh side stows and a removable hip pocket and phone holder. Like all three packs here, though, the zip closure of the main pack means that, although it’s easy to fill, you
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Damage Limitation Exercise
By Nick Grantham on 23/11/2009 13:19:57
When your chosen sport involves three disciplines the range of possible injuries is impressive, but you can take steps to limit or, with luck, avoid them
10 times on each side.Iliotibial Band SyndromeThe two muscles associated with the ITB are the tensor fascia lata (TFL) and gluteus maximus. This exercise concentrates on the TFL, which runs down the outside of the thigh from just below the hip
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Strike A Pose - Stretches
By Jon Bowskill on 25/06/2002 17:36:31
Stretches to improve your posture
and your back leg out behind you. From here, keep an upright posture, and then slowly lean forwards and rotate away from the hip of the leg which is stretched out behind you. You should feel the stretch in the top of this hip. Once you feel the stretch
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Strike A Pose - Strengthening
By Jon Bowskill on 25/06/2002 17:53:52
Strengthening to improve your posture
UAN: Article type:++ADD PICS++add link to 'posture enhancing stretches'-->In addition to doing posture-enhancing stretches, you will need to strengthen your lower abdominals, hamstrings, glutes, quads and rotators of the hip, in the functional
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Five Essential Injury-Beating Stretches
By Sarah Connors & Sam Murphy on 06/01/2011 17:23:24
Five top stretches from ASICS PRO Team member and Super Six Physio Sarah Connors
-down on the floor, propped up on your elbows, with knees and feet together.Exercise: Engage the core and lift the hips and knees off the floor, taking the weight through your elbows and feet only, with the body in a straight line. Hold for 10 seconds and repeat
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Fitness At A Stretch
By on 23/11/2009 15:07:53
Flexibility is something many triathletes give little thought to, but a supple physique can help keep you fit and injury-free
of the most commonly injured regions of the body. Putting in the miles on the road can lead to chronically tight hip flexors (the iliopsoas muscles, which run from the lumbar vertebrae to the femur). Hip flexor problems can lead to an anterior pelvic tilt
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Best of the forum: Health & Injury
By Runner's World on 27/06/2003 10:18:33
Highlights and frequently asked questions from our Health & Injury forum
Foot | Achilles | Ankle Area | Lower leg | Knee | Hip Area / Upper leg | Upper-body | Chest | Digestion/diarrhoea | Women's issues | CreditsThese are highlights and frequently asked questions from our injury & health forums. They were created
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Drill Seeker: Legs
By Rick Kiddle on 28/04/2011 10:54:10
Adding drills will iron out technique problems and add variety to your pool sessions
and motivating. This month we will focus on leg drills.Your legs should help elevate your hips and body but many swimmers find the opposite happens. It's a common problem and the solution is straightforward, though it can take a little time because such technique
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