Sleep matters
A critical part of your progress is sleep, for multiple reasons. Here are a few basic tips.
Roads to Freedom
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Welcome to Roads to Freedom. This is a podcast dedicated to discussion of all running related topics, including all the lifestyle pieces, like nutrition, sleep, stress, recovery etc.
Breathing while running and in life
Good, deep, nasal breathing is a sign of a well trained aerobic system and a healthy parasympathetic response. Stress, lifestyle postures, too much hi...
Light energised runners find it easier! Hormones not calories for fat loss.
Many runners start running to lose weight and it certainly can help a lot. But for maximum results and better health, pay attention to what you eat an...
Bodyweight strength and mobility routines for runners
Why separate your non-running training into strength and mobility sessions, since they are inter-reliant in movement and not separate at all?
Balancing Running and Recovery
How to integrate running, walking and other varied mindful movement practice for great active recovery and better running consistency.
So you want a longer running stride?
Many runners are looking to increase their stride length, but few understand the biomechanics involved or how to improve them.
Feet, free energy and footwear
How to optimise your footwear to get the best out of your anatomy, whilst staying out of pain.
Increasing stride length
Momentum, bodyweight, gravity combining to load elastic energy from the ground and people us forwards with a stride that lengthens behind us.
Running as effortlessly falling and pulling, led by the arms.
Moving from working on cadence with short steps as we progress forwards, to effortlessly falling into our first step.
Taking cadence forward into running.
Faster cadence does not mean you are going faster. You might just be running up and down on the spot. But it does improve a lot of the key elements of...