by SportsLab | Apr 16, 2019 | Bike Fit, Multidisciplinary, Uncategorized
What is Aerodynamics? Of all the forces you must overcome on your bike, the two greatest energy sappers are gravity and air resistance. Anyone that’s ridden on a windy day in Auckland knows all about this. The faster you go the bigger the drag forces are....
by SportsLab | Apr 11, 2019 | Massage Therapy, Multidisciplinary, Podiatry, Uncategorized
Running and training in Kenya couldn’t be any more different to what it’s like training here back in Auckland. Kenyans train on dirt roads, I very rarely do. In Auckland, the norm is to run on the roads and pavement. The...
by SportsLab | Apr 2, 2019 | Multidisciplinary, Uncategorized
The food we eat is used as fuel so we can do the things that we want to. With the huge variety of opinion on what makes a “good diet” and the rise of the “fad diet”, it is easy to put nutrition into the too hard basket. Here at Sports Lab, while we don’t...
by SportsLab | Mar 19, 2019 | Multidisciplinary, Uncategorized
Kenyans are an ethnic minority that make up about 0.06% of the world’s population. Yet, Kenyans dominate many running races. It seemed to all start in August 1966. The face of running changed at what was then called the British Empire and Commonwealth Games. Before...
by SportsLab | Mar 10, 2019 | Multidisciplinary, Uncategorized
The human body is a magnificently complex structure. Atoms form molecules, molecules form cells, cells form everything we are. Every process in our bodies from a macro level (running, jumping, dancing) through to the micro level (cellular diffusion, energy...
by SportsLab | Mar 7, 2019 | Multidisciplinary, Uncategorized
We all know that Instagram pictures don’t exactly show reality of life. Instagram flaunts carefully crafted accounts that portray a certain image. It’s not a lie, but it’s definitely not the whole truth. For example, a smiley selfie on the beach that fails to show a...
