Post summary: this week we look at what and how you should be stretching to help your recovery, along with how you could be stretching and making your muscles tighter without even realising it. Stretching is one of those things that most people know they should be doing, and don’t. Not just because after a run you’re tired and just want to collapse on the sofa, but also because if your muscle’s aren’t hurting, why

Welcome back! If you’re following in order, at this point you’ve read about how to warm up, conditioning, and the three types of runs you should be doing as part of your marathon training. (is this your first post? If you haven’t seen the other articles yet, but would like to, you can get them delivered to your inbox, in order. Sound good? click here to sign up and you’ll get the first email now, followed by a weekly

Long runs are kind of the movie star of marathon training. Anybody who’s done even the tiniest bit of research on marathon training, or knows anyone who’s trained for a marathon, will have heard about the long run. Your weekend morning, Saturday or Sunday, is taken up by longer and longer runs as you prepare for a marathon. Because it’s usually the most familiar one of the bunch, we’ll keep this short and sweet. Today we’ll

I’d say tempo runs are the favourite of our clients. If many people avoid intervals, they love tempo and long runs (well, about as much as you can love killing yourself by pounding your feet on the pavement over and over again – ahem – I mean springing lightly along the road or path enjoying the outdoor sounds of nature…?). A tempo run is often perceived as an easier run because it’s shorter, and you can

On to the runs! (are you new? If this is the first article you’ve seen, I thought you might like to know this is the 4th in our series of articles for training for a marathon. If you’d like to get the series from the beginning, click here to sign up and you’ll get an email every week with a new piece on a different aspect of marathon training.) Did you know that one of the

It would be easy to think that when you’re training for a marathon, you just need to make sure that you’re running regularly and banking those miles in the run up to race day. After all, a marathon is just a lot of running. No assault course, just running. But… spending some time on conditioning work really will help you towards your marathon goal. When you’re running, you want to make the most out of the energy

Who Has Time for Warm-ups? I get it… you’re trying to fit your run in before work and you need the extra ten minutes of sleep, or in your lunch break, or after work and you just want to get through it. But did you know that a good warmup is key to helping reduce your chance of injury*? And I bet you don’t want to do all that training and get injured, right? Let