Roads to Freedom

A critical part of your progress is sleep, for multiple reasons. Here are a few basic tips.

Good, deep, nasal breathing is a sign of a well trained aerobic system and a healthy parasympathetic response. Stress, lifestyle postures, too much high intensity exercise, poor diet, sleep etc are all involved in problems with breathing, in addition to simply inexperience of running for longer periods. Here are some tips.

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 and when, rather than how much.

Why separate your non-running training into strength and mobility sessions, since they are inter-reliant in movement and not separate at all?

How to integrate running, walking and other varied mindful movement practice for great active recovery and better running consistency.

Many runners are looking to increase their stride length, but few understand the biomechanics involved or how to improve them.

How to optimise your footwear to get the best out of your anatomy, whilst staying out of pain.

Momentum, bodyweight, gravity combining to load elastic energy from the ground and people us forwards with a stride that lengthens behind us.

Moving from working on cadence with short steps as we progress forwards, to effortlessly falling into our first step.

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 running form that will enable you to eventually run faster with less effort, because it takes full advantage of your bodyweight, your momentum, your elastic tissues, to get the most out of every landing step. We want to be using the 'free energy' from the ground so that we don't have to create so much ourselves, using our own muscular energy.