Up until now, Tom has had a relatively low profile, due largely to a knee injury following his duathlon success. In fact, it took three years of treatment and then surgery before he could return to competitive sport."The first three to six months were
it's no surprise that the journal Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise reports that harder running surfaces are more often associated with injuries. But not all off-road surfaces have the same benefits. "Different surfaces influence how
in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Danish researchers studied the sports and leisure-time activities of 5,749 healthy pregnant women in the first and early second trimesters of their pregnancies. They discovered that physical activity during
Take a quick guess at runnings number one enemy. What do you think it is? Injury? Ill health? Manic drivers? Blistered toes? No, the nemesis of the modern runner is excuses. They stop more people running than anything else. In a perfect world
. Looking at data from 40 studies involving 250,000 people with heart disease, they found that overweight people had fewer heart problems than those with a normal BMI.The good news is that not all government departments are hung up on the BMI. Sports
. "Runners should view the body as a functional unit composed of numerous subparts, which work together and have roles to play in performing well and avoiding injury," says Dr Mike Huff, coordinator of sports performance at Duke University in the USA. "The
You might be able to run through a tight hamstring or a sore quad, but an injured foot or ankle usually puts the brakes on a session – and can ruin your entire training season. Our feet and ankles, after all, are the foundation of our sport. When
Goal: sub-4:00 Mentor: Steve Smythe Sport scientist: Gareth Turner Forum nickname: AndyV Age: 34 Running for: 1 year No. of marathons: 0
The unfortunate truth is that if you compete in triathlon, as in any other sport, you will at some point suffer an injury.Pushing on through the pain caused by injury is also something most athletes are familiar with, but only the dumbest
From double gold Olympic rower to professional adventurer, James Cracknell has had an extraordinary sporting career. The competitive athlete has shown guts and determination in racing across every terrain - he crossed the Atlantic, the South Pole
