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Burning Feet: Four Cool Down Tips
By Marianne McGinnis on 29/10/2010 13:15:03
Follow these four simple steps to take the pressure off swollen, burning feet on long bike rides.
Painful burning on the ball of the foot (also known as hot foot or metatarsalgia) is usually a result of hot weather or poorly fitting shoes - or worse, both - on long, hilly rides. "Pressure can pinch nerves in one or both your feet and shut down a
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Runner's World Promotion: Beat The Heat
By on 28/06/2012 10:00:00
knowledge that fungal infections thrive in hot moist dark areas of our skin, heat and added perspiration in the summer months can play havoc with runners’ feet and raise the risk of athlete’s foot.One in four adults may suffer from athlete’s foot at least
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Yoga for Runners: Position 23 - Janushirasana
By Alexandra Rees on 15/06/2012 10:23:24
. Janushirasana: Step by Step1. Sit down with your legs wide, at a 90 degree angle to each other. Extend the right leg out straight and left leg bent, with the sole of your left foot pressed flat against the inner thigh/groin area of your right leg. 2. Inhale and lift
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Yoga for Runners: Position 18 - Dhanurasana
By Alexandra Rees on 27/02/2012 09:38:55
the outside of the foot. Hold on the top of the foot just below the toes, fingers and thumbs together.2. Inhale, and keeping your knees together and stomach on the floor, kick your legs behind you and up in the air on the exhale. Your toes should be pointing
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Yoga for Runners: Position 11 - Tadasana
By Alexandra Rees on 08/11/2011 09:50:28
to the floor, placing your hands (with fingers and thumbs interlaced) around the outside of the knee to hold it there.3. Exhale, keep your right hand on your knee and move your left hand to hold the top of your foot, just under the toes. Bring the heel of your
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Yoga for Runners: Position 9 - Trikanasana
By Kerry McCarthy on 23/09/2011 16:11:43
If you're short on time (or just impatient) and looking for a way to work out several parts of the body at once then Trikanasana, the Triangle pose, is your man (or woman. Yoga isn't sexist).As Olga Allon, owner of Hot Bikram Yoga, puts it: "It's a
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Shoepaedia: Key Running Shoe Terms Explained
By Runner's World on 04/08/2009 12:21:46
In-depth explanations and diagrams to help you understand more about how running shoes are constructed
backed with fabric over common blistering and chafing hot spots on the foot. SocklinerSince shoes are mass-produced to fit a wide variety of foot shapes, manufacturers use these removable foam footbeds to cover the seams and gaps in a shoe's construction
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Take Care Of The Twinge
By Selene Yeager on 14/06/2010 17:40:17
Learn to troubleshoot a minor pain before it becomes a full-blown injury
and hamstrings. Get a professional bike fit.FootWHAT AND WHY You experience hot spots, pain under the ball of your foot or numb toes when pressure is concentrated on one part of your sole, squeezing the nerves between your foot bones. Hot spots can happen
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Yoga for Runners: Position 25 – Ardha-Matsyendrasana
By Kerry McCarthy on 29/06/2012 10:00:00
little tricky. 1. Sit down on the floor. Bend your left leg on the floor so that your left foot sits close to your right hip and buttock. The left knee should stay flat on the floor throughout the posture. 2. Now lift the right leg up and over and place
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Triathlon Training
By on 19/06/2006 11:10:43
Whether you're ready for a new racing challenge, or you just want to become fitter, triathlon training is the answer
Triathlon is hot. In the past five years, participation in the sport of swimming-biking-running has tripled in the UK. It's estimated that nearly 100,000 people in this country will race the triple this year. Who are all these multi-taskers, and why
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