Running & Footwear
Run faster, run pain-free, and stop buying the wrong shoes. Our coaching team on running technique and gait, the footwear that actually helps (and the marketing that doesn't), barefoot and minimalist transitions, and the conditioning that builds durable runners.
Articles
How Many Calf Raises to Do at Home for Stronger Calves
How to do calf raises at home: correct form, how many reps you actually need, the best variations, and a simple program that builds stronger, more explosive calves.
Stretching for athletes: Kneeling hip flexor stretch
This is the ultimate athletic stretch, open up your hips to strint faster, jump higher and reduce lower back pain with the kneeling hip flexor stretch
Do Calf Raises Help Shin Splints? Yes, But Not the Way You Think
Calf raises help shin splints, but standing calf raises miss the real muscle. Here's the seated-isometric fix that targets the tibialis posterior behind shin pain.
Stretches for Shin Splints
The best stretches for shin splints, and the honest truth about why stretching alone won't cure them, from a coach who battled shin splints for 2.5 years.
The Problem With Heel Striking When You Run | Why you should land on the midfoot
Is heel striking bad for runners? What it does to your legs, why it happens, and how to fix your foot strike.
Why aren’t shoes shaped like feet? A history of shoes
Feet are naturally wide and strong, but why aren't shoes shaped like feet? Here's the history of shoes
Nine physical traits that prove humans were born to run
Humans may not be the fastest or strongest animals in the world but our ability to run for miles and miles is a unique trait that gave us a competitive advantage in some pre-historic circumstance.
How to Run Faster: Tips for Injury Free Effortless Running
Today's modern running shoe makes it possible for anyone to just throw on a pair, pound the pavement and call themselves an athlete.
Running Program for Transitioning to Barefoot Shoes (Minimalist/Zero Drop)
We strongly believe that for the majority of people making a transition to spending some, or most of your time in a minimalist or barefoot shoe can have a profound effect on injury risk, performance and general postural health.
Are Roches Killing Your Athleticism?
We all intuitively know that high heels are bad for our posture, and the effects flow up the entire kinetic chain. What most people miss is that nearly everyone is wearing some form of heeled shoe for most part of every day.
Best Gym Shoes: Top Sneaker and Shoe Options to Lift Weights
So far the shoe conversation has been centred primarily around straight line running, but what's the best option when it comes to lifting shoes?
Rules for Buying Sneakers: A guide for Basketball, Volleyball, Netball and Tennis
Whether you play basketball, futsal, netball or even tennis, the requirements from your shoes are exactly the same, so here are some rules for buying sneakers.
Sprint Unification Theory
You'll hear people say to improve your speed you need to work hard on your stride length and/or stride frequency, but that's a littlenullbit of a simplification.
From the podcast
#183 - Training Variety & Running With Bree Filippone
Bree Filippone is a Personal Trainer & Exercise Scientist with years of industry experience in exercise rehabilitation, and sports performance. Bree has founded The HIIT Project, The Finishr and is also a coach at Life Hub. Bree focuses her expertise in coaching general pop to become better movers in and out of the gym.
#176 - Osteopathy & S&C With Michelle Andrews From Motus Life
Michelle is an Osteopath, S&C Coach, and the director of Motus Life, an osteopathy, strength & conditioning, sports performance, yoga, pilates and meditation hub.
#168 - Mitch Greaves On Training Loads & Rehabilitation
Mitch is an Exercise Physiologist and Strength & Conditioning Coach who specialises in musculoskeletal rehabilitation. Mitch has previously worked with Carlton Football Club as the Performance preparation coordinator for AFLW and is an Exercise Physiologist at Melbourne Fitness & Performance. Durham and Mitch chat about coach and athlete relationships, when athletes transition between sports, the impact of junior footy on AFLW, exposure to women's sports, curved sprinting and The Need For Speed workshop.
#148 - The Ultimate Holiday Training Guide
Over the past 4 summers we have been gradually building more and more resources for athletes and coaches to help them stay match ready over the Christmas break. This year we have included three strength workouts taking advantage of various levels of equipment and it is now all available on our website.
#138 - Do Sprinters need to be “fit”?
Following on from EP.137 in this episode we cover all things energy system interplay, conditioning training for track athletes and different methods for developing your energy systems for the sport or event you compete in.
#137 - Training for the 100m
We train a number of athletes from sports that require sprinting and running, but the 100m sprinter is a unique athlete to work with. From neural flexibility and hamstrings, to strength development and acceleration mechanics, in this episode we breakdown the dos and don't for strength and conditioning with sprinters.
#118 - Training for AFL Football Part 2: Speed, Agility, Strength and Fitness. What it takes to perform in Australian Rules Football
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