In the past I have done posts about whether women should run and the benefits of barefoot running. However, I’ve seen a few posts and articles recently discussing endurance running and sprinting. Are we genetically designed to be endurance runners? Are we better designed as sprinters? Do you need carbs if you are an endurance [...]
Almost as soon as I wrote about barefoot health in January a new study was published in Nature (Lieberman et al 2010) looking into barefoot running which resulted in lots of noise on the primal/paleo scene where lovers of “the natural way” abound. In essence, the study compared habitually barefoot runners (those who, by running [...]
Two things happened over the last fortnight to get me thinking about whether it is beneficial to convert to being low-carb if you are an endurance athlete. The first was a question on one of my old posts from someone who wanted to know how I dealt with the problem of being glycogen starved while [...]
I am a huge fan of being barefoot. I love it. As soon as I get in through the front door I kick off my shoes. In an ideal world that would be it, but our ancient carpets (or my bad housework) combined with the cold temperature in our house in the winter and my poor circulation means [...]
I must confess that I hate running. Years ago when I was at school I could do a half-decent 1,500m time. However, this wasn’t through training. It was just my natural ability for endurance. When everyone else was starting to suffer from exhaustion I could carry on putting one foot in front of the other. [...]
