Can Wearing Orthotics Affect Your Running Performance?

Can Wearing Orthotics Affect Your Running Performance?

Orthotics are inserts which can be custom made or purchased off the shelf. Your foot is more mechanically efficient when you use orthotic inserts

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Tips for completing the Couch to 5km Program designed to get anyone running

Tips for completing the Couch to 5km Program designed to get anyone running

The couch to 5km is a running program to get people from the couch to comfortably running 5km or 30 minutes continuously in 9 weeks.

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Best tips and techniques for an effective interval training session

Best tips and techniques for an effective interval training session

Research has shown that high intensity training increases fitness levels and burns more calories over a shorter period of time versus a long period of steady state cardio.

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Why is Strength Training Important for Runners?

Why is Strength Training Important for Runners?

Strength training has become a more and more important component of running training. It is now seen as one of the biggest factors that will impact on your speed, endurance and overall performance.

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10 Mental Strategies to make you a Stronger Runner

10 Mental Strategies to make you a Stronger Runner

As marathon runners, we are often guilty of churning out miles but ignoring what is going on inside our head. If we are not careful, our head can become filled with negativity and doubts. This can adversely impact a runner’s confidence and performance.

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Avoiding Injury before the Marathon

Avoiding Injury before the Marathon

Listen to your body and the warning signs it is giving. The two main injury risk factors during marathon training are increasing training load too quickly, and continuing to train with a previous injury

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Get out running: Malahide Castle 10km

Get out running: Malahide Castle 10km

Whether it is your first 10km, or you are a veteran 10km runner, preparation is equally as important and makes the event far more enjoyable and stress free.

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Treating groin pain: The benefits of physiotherapy

Treating groin pain: The benefits of physiotherapy

Groin pain occurs mostly after injury to one of the adductor muscles. The groin musculature is complicated with highly stressed anchor points and involvement of the pelvis and lumbrosacral spine.

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