

Key Leg Strength Exercises
Key Leg Strength Exercises A strong core will help you hold your running form longer and deeper into a race and stronger upper body will prove invaluable in delivering a more powerful arm drive helping propel you forward faster. But there is no doubting that developing stronger legs is a priority for runners. Our legs take the load at ground contact and power our gait through toe off. So any strength session must have a bias towards developing these key muscle groups- our glu
...and stretchhhhhhhh!
Stretching - Flexibility and Mobility Most runners know that they should be stretching and mobilising muscles on a regular basis. Despite knowing this, many don’t do it, are not sure what to do or when to do it or even really why they are doing it. Runners who just run and ignore stretching, mobility, strength work and forms of cross training are more likely to become tight in some muscle areas and weak in others. Tightness in key muscles such as hamstring and glutes requires