Christien came to see me as she had heard about my Biomechanics Screenings and wondered if I could help her. She had been running for a while and when she decided to move up from running 5kms to half marathons she started to experience injuries. She has successfully ran 4 half marathons despite the occasional [...]
It was a couple of weeks back that I completed the Wormerland Sprint Triathlon, my first of 2017. I had originally planned a different triathlon that day which was then cancelled, leaving me quite disappointed. Luckily I found another on the same day and the same distance, and that was also not so far away. [...]
I started running back in 2004 (or was it 2003?). I started exactly how I now recommend runners should start. With a simple programme where for the first week you run 1 minute, walk 1 minute x 10. Strangely my memories of this was doing it in the dark and I had no idea what [...]
The start of the triathlon season has taught me the act of being patient. Reflecting on last year I often found myself constantly low of energy because I started the season too soon after I had run a marathon and there were a lot of things going on in my life. I therefore decided to delay [...]
As you will no doubt have realised if you follow me, I am always trying to encourage people to sit less. Today I take the challenge to get off your butts. We are designed to be hunters and gatherers but there has been a relatively recent change in human behaviour. We now sit more, we are [...]
Since changing the direction of my services from quite a generic Personal Training Service to focusing more and more on movement I have found myself in the enviable position of having a job I love more and more. More than 2 years ago I qualified as a Biomechanics Coach and this has been a real [...]
It wasn't my intention to write a specific blog on the Schoorl Half marathon. However, I was so pleased about how it went that I thought it deserved its own spot in my blog. This race was planned in the agenda quite a few months ago. Because I had only done a few weeks of [...]
Earlier this month Boston Marathon were showing on Facebook and Instagram that they had already painted the finish line. At the moment I don't feel the finish line is quite in sight. But training is definitely going well and has included a cross country. As the year changed to 2017 my training took a turn [...]
Meet client Natalie. Natalie started coming to my boot camp over 2 years ago. Over a year ago she also started personal training. Natalie had previously been a kick boxer to a high level (1st degree Black Belt in the North West Chinese Kickboxing Association) in England. She trained for long hours and had some [...]
Training for hills in a flat city On the 1st of November I started my training for the Boston Marathon. And the biggest challenge is: how to train for a hilly course in a completely flat city? Here are some of the training tools we (my coach and I) have come up with that are going [...]
