You’re finally in the groove. Your fitness is improving and then suddenly, something twinges. A sharp pain in your knee. A dull ache in your hip. A foot that just won’t stop hurting. Injury is one of

Athletes follow a cycle of pre-season, in-season and off-season phases and even if you don’t see yourself as a true athlete (you are, btw), you should consider doing similar. Your body is not designed

A study in Frontiers in Psychology has shown that trail running in natural mountain environments can activate your ‘positive emotion centre’, potentially reducing anxiety. Another study from the Unive

One commonly overlooked factor to running performance is recovery. Because here’s the thing: how well you recover is just as important as how hard you train. “Without proper recovery, runners risk exc

Shoulder pain can be an overlooked issue for us runners because we wrongly assume injuries happen to our lower bodies rather than upper. The truth is that, while running is predominantly a lower-body

Progressive overload is the principle of increasing demands to continue to see gains, but if you don’t have heavier weights at your disposal there are other tactics you can employ, as Luke Worthington explains