In part 1 and 2 of this series we looked at two phases of the running stride – initial contact and mid-stance – and their influence on Achilles injury for our Case Study – GAA footballer Myles Conway. Today we will be looking at a part of the running stride called ‘terminal stance’ consisting of…
Injuries are the scourge of the running community today. Depending on what study you read 50 to 90% of all runners are injured every year and despite all the ‘advances’ in medical science and shoe manufacturing, nothing has made the slightest dent in this trend. So the constant irritation and frustration of injury remains hanging…
Jason and Rene appeared on RTE’s Ray Darcy Show and Matt Cooper’s ‘The Last Word’ last week to join in on the debate about running surfaces, injury and running technique. If you missed the interviews, listen back below and don’t forget to read our detailed response to Ger Hartmann’s article in ‘Roads are not to…
This article was written as a response to the radio interview ‘Road-Running will leave joggers on the scrap-heap’ with Ger Hartmann. We will discuss our view here on TodayFM tonight at 18:30 GMT. You’re driving along, inattentive, shortly after acquiring your driver’s license. As you look up from your mobile,…
If you’ve ever had one of those injuries that seems to ‘come and go’ or be ‘ok one day worse the next’ even when you’re not running on it, then there might be an explanation. When the body prepares for a stressful or dangerous situation it creates noradrenaline (the fight or flight hormone) and cortisol (the…
When I speak to runners who have recently been treated for injury one of the most common pieces of the information they share with me is that ‘the physio told me I had weak glutes’*. This often goes with a comment that ‘I have tight hips’ and a prescription to do an exercise like this…
The life of the Greek hero Achilles ended in tragedy and mention of the proverbial “Achilles tendon” tends to invoke more fear than joy when brought up in conversation with modern athletes. Yet, the Achilles tendon is a crucial part of the success in running – at least when it is done properly. Heel-striking and…
In this new recurring column we take a new look at common running injuries through the prism of the new science of Darwinian of Evolutionary Medicine that informs our work at ChampionsEverywhere. We show how “mysterious” injuries such as plantar fasciitis, Achilles tendinosis and tarsal tunnel syndrome are not so mysterious after all. Read this…
Alan O’Brien, middle-distance runner from Crusaders AC, was a relative late-comer to the sport but rose quickly through the ranks of the sport to represent Ireland five times at full International level. As a late call-up to the European Team Championships in Slovakia, he was instrumental in securing Ireland promotion when he out-kicked the field…
We were happy to see a nice positive review of our latest (December) “Run injury free” workshop posted by Brian O’Murchu on the IMRA forum last week. We had to share it here: It’s December and as there’s no IMRA races to run and report on, I’ll report on the Run Injury Free 2…
I went looking in my cupboard the other day and noticed several unused tubs of “tiger balm”. I then looked around a bit further and saw an almost full jar of Advil, some unused sports massage gel and a few rolls of zinc-oxide tape. That’s when it occurred to me: the stupendous amount of things…
When I was reading the last edition of “Running Times“, one of the most serious running publications out there with a host of contributors with an appreciable understanding of running as a sport, rather than a side-show, a few things stuck out to me in the otherwise excellent article “Decoding the signals” by Linda Flanagan.…
One of our mottoes is “train don’t strain” and we have rubbished the “no pain, no gain” attitude which has done such horrendous damage to the fitness industry and modern athletics, just as Arthur Lydiard did 60 years ago. But pain can actually be a good thing, if you understand why you feel pain in the first…
We literally have a book’s worth of information about our injury free coaching model for runners and other athletes, so below we’ve compiled them all for you in an easy to browse format. Enjoy the reading and hope to see you at our workshops. Athletics Illustrated High mileage and low injury rate: It is…
We collected a number of injuries from our followers on Facebook and through our customers against the promise that we would write about how their particular injury could be fixed permanently by using Tony Riddle’s principles. Going to one of our workshops are clearly an investment. Why do so many of us go onto the…
Aoife Joyce lost almost eighteen months of regular training due to a mysterious nerve injury and had to be eased back into full Lydiard training. Below she shares her views on how to use the system when returning from injury. I’m just coming back from injury – can I use the Lydiard system? I first…
