I'm often approached by people wanting to improve their Bleep Test times; usually for the fitness tests to joint the Police or Military or to progress their Military careers. I'm always delighted to help and, with 6 weeks or longer, I can create a bespoke training plan specifically designed for that individual to improve the aspects of their running and cardiovascular fitness that the Bleep Test is looking to test. The Bleep Test is a series of shuttle runs over a 20 meter di

With both my Running Coaching and Sports Massage work I spend quite a lot of time explaining aspects of how our bodies work from a...

Happy, healthy feet are key for running, hiking, walking, and everyday life. In this bolg post I'm talking through a few things that can...

It’s 10 years since I came up with the idea of working for myself, as a Running Coach. I was away in the Alps, doing a lot of running in...

Every spring we get a period of time where the warmer weather catches a lot of people out in their training (and sometimes racing). Out...

A quick checklist covering your taper, race planning and race day! The Taper 2-4 weeks long to let your body fully recover from the...

More research is coming out to show that some key areas contribute not just to our fitness, but our overall physical and mental wellbeing...

So let's start with, what is Heart Rate Variability (HRV)? It's a measure of the changes in the time gap between heart beats. It may seem...

Firstly, what on earth is cadence? It's the number of times your feet hit the ground in 1 minute of running. It's measured in steps per...

You are there on the start line, the nerves and excitement are building the race start gun goes off and when you cross the start line the...

It’s really useful to be able to recover well from our training and our events and one key way to do that is from what you eat. Your body...

Mindfulness is a great way to improve your mental and physical health and well as mental and physical performance! Here are a few of my...

There is a model that describes how our brains work that describes three systems; drive, threat and soothe. This model is used in many...

Hydration is really key for longer distance endurance sports (running, cycling, walking etc) as relatively small levels of dehydration...

I guess we all have a sense that sleep is good for us, we literally can't survive without it and you can notice the impacts of sleep...

We seem to live in a society that not only encourages but seems to programme us in to thinking we should be busy or "doing something" all...

I get lots of questions about the latest running shoes, carbon plated ones, nutritional supplements, kit, accessories and extras and...

Based on plenty of chats with runners I've worked with where we've discussed the impact of stressful situations e.g. family problems,...

It's the time of year where running and sport social media still seems awash with meme or tables showing you how far you have to run to...

What is overtraining? Overtraining is a state your body can get into if you are doing too much training or the medium to long term,...