Health Blog
Train Better: Using Running Metrics
In today’s world of gadgets and technology, there is no shortage of watches and apps to help you track your runs. In the clinic, our team is particularly stingy on with both new and experienced runners is using some sort of tool to track your runs. Why? Because no matter how strong you are, how flexible you are, or what style your gait is, if you over-do your training or make changes too quickly, your likelihood of injury skyrockets.
Read full blogLearn About: Carbon Fibre Shoe Review
Welcome to our first Shoe Review! This week we are going to talk about the latest shoe technology so that you can see the pros and cons of different shoes from both a physio and running shoe perspective.
A huge topic in the running world right now is Carbon Fibre Plates and the claims shoe companies are making based on their research in order to enhance performance in distance running and racing. Nike has used their Carbon Fibre technology to break the 2-hour marathon world record this year leading to controversy in the sporting world over the shoe’s potential to enhance performance.
Read full blogWhat You Need to Know About: Head Injuries
With the more recent discoveries of neurodegenerative diseases including Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), head injuries and concussions have begun to receive more and more attention. Even more recently, connections between mental health disorders such as depression, anxiety, sleep disturbance, and addiction/alcohol abuse with post concussion syndrome have come to light. So what exactly constitutes a head injury? When should you be concerned? What can you do to optimize your recovery?
What exactly is a Concussion?
Read full blogThink About It: A Different Way to Goal-Set
There’s something about the new year and the idea of a “fresh start” that most of us find intrinsically appealing. The idea that we can put things that didn’t go well behind us, wipe the slate clean, and begin anew feels liberating; like an organized desk without clutter or junk. Is there anything more satisfying than the feeling of cracking a brand new 2020 Agenda open for the first time and running your hands over the pages representative of 365 days of fresh possibility and hope?
Read full blogTrain Better: Building a Training Plan
Learn to build your own training plan.
Read full blogLearn About: Muscle Tools (Are They Worth It?)
Foam rollers. Lacrosse balls. Battery-powered vibrating sticks, tubes and scrapers, stainless steel, acu-this, myo-that. The world of “muscle release” is rife with tools of all shapes, sizes, and materials, priced from $3.00 to $300. But what’s the real deal? What exactly are these tools doing? And are they worth the splurge? I get asked questions about this topic all of the time, and I also see the ridiculous market and so called “experts” endorsing products and making sweeping claims that make me roll my eyes pretentiously.
Read full blogTrain Better: How Your Menstrual Cycle Affects Training and Performance
Yep, we’re going there.
Women’s health in the sport and exercise world is finally, finally, starting to garner specific attention. And boy oh boy, are we excited about it. (Whoops, there may have been a pun there…) For many years, it was near-impossible to provide good recommendations to female athletes and runners because the science was almost exclusively based on studies where men were the participants.
We really wanted to do this one justice.
Read full blogThink About It: Rest and Recovery
How to tackle your off-season and approach next year’s goals with intent and positivity.
Read full blogThe Runner’s Survival Guide – Mental Health Edition.
On grit.
Read full blogThe Runner’s Survival Guide – Training
THE MARATHON. This word may make you excited, cringe, or maybe a confusing mixture of both. The marathon is 42.2 kilometres of joy, depression, pain, grit, and elation. Although the race is nothing to shake a stick at, the real trials and tribulations occur during the training and preparation leading up to race day. To help guide you, we’ve created the ultimate “How to Survive” Guide to Training.
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