choice. Wallow in self-pity, lose your aerobic base, put on weight and make yourself and everyone around you miserable or get a life. Here's the plan...1. No whining If you love to run, there's no denying that injury downtime can be a
clunk on the osteo’s table every now and then to sort it out,” he says. Backs: to the future. (Real-life solutions) Real-life stories: how two runners beat back pain Injury-Proof Your Back: five sets of everyday tips to stay pain-free Curls
The only thing runners fear more than rabid dogs and toilet emergencies is getting hurt. An injury means taking a break, and runners hate the thought of losing fitness, gaining weight or missing an endorphin fix. But what if you knew what injuries
the quadriceps and ITB. You'll need a surface about mid-thigh height. The kitchen table is normally a good bet!Starting postion: Stand with your buttocks resting against a table or use the steeplechase pit at your local track.Exercise: Pull one knee to your chest
) or neglected (understretched, understrengthened), they’ll complain. And the result could be one of the two most chronic, hard-to-heal injuries a runner can face – namely, plantar fasciitis or Achilles tendinitis. To avoid the dreaded ‘itises’ it helps to first
this feeling of lactic acid build-up by experience, and because the symptoms tend to come on gradually. In some cases, if you feel pain on a training run it’s quite sufficient to stop and stretch, change the surface you’re running on or go to the other side
't bad.The one thing I have learnt is that if you're told to rest the injury, that alone will simply enable it to recover to the stage where it was before you did the exercise that caused the injury in the first place – so you'll be forever experiencing
