Steve Haywood is a qualified Personal Trainer (Member of the Register of Exercise Professionals No. R0035374) who took to personal training following a life-long love of walking and competitive running. Steve Haywood is a member of Otley AC & Wetherby AC and works at an NHS gym designed to aid drug rehabilitation. 
Christopher McDougall faced a problem that stares most runners in the face at some time along the road, namely injury. His background in running journalism for outfits like Runners World had earned him a good name and respect in the game. This gave him access to some of the best people in the sports world [...]
Advanced too hard? Try the intermediate 5K training plan by clicking here. Well done on improving your 5k time after following the intermediate running programme. You have now been training for around 6 months and running should be a natural part of your life but hopefully still enjoyable. To satisfy that competitive itch it’s now [...]
Intermediate too advanced? See the beginners programme by clicking here. Congratulations on completing your your first 5k race with the beginners programme put together by you for you. This means that you have been training for around 3 months and your body and mind are adapting to your new lifestyle. I very much hope you [...]
There is a lot of information in books and on line about what to do and how to do it if you are one of the many people wanting to start running for the first time, or making a return after a long break with a view to a race. It can be bewildering, with [...]
As more and more sports are implicated in using drugs to enhance performance, I have just read an article that takes the biscuit (or the pie). Some may think that pie eating will never become a sport. By the 2020 Olympics it will be included along with Marathon TV watching. Please read on:- A Wigan [...]
In this article H & S stands for Health and Safety (and related legislation). So what has this to do with my world of running some may ask. Well, the reason I have been prompted to put fingers to keyboard was because of a local race that has been cancelled. The race in question was [...]
Here are two simple tips to help with running relaxed, even when pushing the pace along. Keep you hands loose and relaxed, not flopping around but not clenched fists either. Once you screw your fingers into a ball it tenses up the rest of the body making your stride pattern shorter and generally tiring you [...]
My work brings me into contact with lots of runners so I get a good idea of what’s on the horizon regarding future races. A good proportion of the people I have talked to are working towards their first marathon next year with London, Edinburgh and Paris high on the agenda for April/May time. It [...]
The seasons are turning once more and it’s time to get the waterproof socks and high-vis tops out again. Here are some of the top selling Winter items among fitness fanatics this month: Inov8 Flyroc More and more people want off-road shoes for training in muddy conditions during the Winter – especially if they are [...]
My work takes me in to lots of different working environments eg schools, call centres, police forces. Talking with hundreds of staff on a personal level it is very evident that the single hardest thing to cope with is stress. Someone at one of these sessions joked that if you could hook up stress to [...]
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