by SportsLab | Jan 24, 2021 | Podiatry, Uncategorized
There’s so much chat in the running world around shoe technology currently! Every few years there seems to be a new wave of conversation, fuelled by a release of a “ground-breaking” update. Remember the minimalist/barefoot trend? The rocker bottom sole? Now we seem to...
by SportsLab | Nov 6, 2020 | Bike Fit, Massage Therapy, Multidisciplinary, Nutrition, Physiological Testing, Physiology, Physiotherapy, Podiatry, Uncategorized
In the last blog we looked at a different definition of performance. One that moves away from a simplistic comparative model of “I ran faster, therefore I performed better”, and moved toward one where we focused on increasing our knowledge, skills and abilities and...
by SportsLab | Oct 14, 2020 | Bike Fit, Massage Therapy, Multidisciplinary, Nutrition, Physiological Testing, Physiology, Physiotherapy, Podiatry
Performance (noun). The completion of a task with application of knowledge, skills and abilities. Performance, by definition, is a simplistic word. One that is purely a successful completion of a task. But all words are descriptive not prescriptive and so, especially...
by SportsLab | Jan 30, 2020 | Multidisciplinary, Physiotherapy, Podiatry, Uncategorized
When it comes to running form, there are currently overwhelming amounts of information available. One common school of thought we have noticed is one that teaches you that you need to run in a very prescriptive way. Proposing that “your cadence should sit around 180,...
by SportsLab | Nov 4, 2019 | Multidisciplinary, Physiotherapy, Podiatry
“Why do I keep getting pain even though I am no longer injured?” I hear this question often, and it can be a tricky concept to get your head around as there are so many elements to consider – with most seeming almost invisible. Let’s say that tissue healing has been...
by SportsLab | Oct 20, 2019 | Massage Therapy, Multidisciplinary, Physiotherapy, Podiatry
Today is November the 2nd, 2020- aka, the day after you tackled the Auckland Marathon! You did it! You ran a marathon. You took anywhere between 50,000 and 60,000+ steps and you were out on the course for anywhere up to 6 hours. We know it can be a little difficult to...
by SportsLab | Aug 28, 2019 | Multidisciplinary, Podiatry, Uncategorized
Photo Credit: Michael Dawson There is much debate, especially on social media, about the “pronation paradigm” of fitting running shoes and many “running geeks” have strong opinions on either side of this debate. All you need to do is google the term pronation to be...
by SportsLab | Jul 9, 2019 | Massage Therapy, Multidisciplinary, Physiotherapy, Podiatry
Photo Credit: Michael Dawson “An emotion is a strong instinctive or intuitive feeling distinguished from reasoning or knowledge of one’s circumstances, mood, or relationships with others.” (This is a visual representation of the distribution of the 27 emotional...
by SportsLab | Jun 24, 2019 | Multidisciplinary, Physiotherapy, Podiatry
Photo Credit: Michael Dawson “You’re a physio, don’t you know that running is bad for your knees?”. Whilst we see plenty of knee injuries from clients that run, running isn’t inherently bad for your knees. The most common myth we hear around runners and knee pain is...
by SportsLab | Apr 26, 2019 | Multidisciplinary, Podiatry, Uncategorized
Photo credit: Michael Dawson At the London 2017 World Track and Field Championships researchers rigged up 49 high speed cameras to capture the biomechanics of the worlds best across the disciplines. During the marathon races cameras captured runners stride, striking...
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...
