Roads to Freedom
Roads to Freedom
David Perry
Welcome to Roads to Freedom. This is a podcast dedicated to discussion of all running related topics, including all the lifestyle pieces, like nutrition, sleep, stress, recovery etc.
Sleep matters
A critical part of your progress is sleep, for multiple reasons. Here are a few basic tips.
Jun 5, 2020
2 min
Breathing while running and in life
Good, deep, nasal breathing is a sign of a well trained aerobic system and a healthy parasympathetic response. Stress, lifestyle postures, too much high intensity exercise, poor diet, sleep etc are all involved in problems with breathing, in addition to simply inexperience of running for longer periods. Here are some tips.
Jun 4, 2020
8 min
Light energised runners find it easier! Hormones not calories for fat loss.
Many runners start running to lose weight and it certainly can help a lot. But for maximum results and better health, pay attention to what you eat and when, rather than how much.
Jun 3, 2020
8 min
Bodyweight strength and mobility routines for runners
Why separate your non-running training into strength and mobility sessions, since they are inter-reliant in movement and not separate at all?
Jun 2, 2020
6 min
Balancing Running and Recovery
How to integrate running, walking and other varied mindful movement practice for great active recovery and better running consistency.
Jun 1, 2020
5 min
So you want a longer running stride?
Many runners are looking to increase their stride length, but few understand the biomechanics involved or how to improve them.
May 31, 2020
5 min
Feet, free energy and footwear
How to optimise your footwear to get the best out of your anatomy, whilst staying out of pain.
May 30, 2020
11 min
Increasing stride length
Momentum, bodyweight, gravity combining to load elastic energy from the ground and people us forwards with a stride that lengthens behind us.
May 28, 2020
5 min
Running as effortlessly falling and pulling, led by the arms.
Moving from working on cadence with short steps as we progress forwards, to effortlessly falling into our first step.
May 27, 2020
5 min
Taking cadence forward into running.
Faster cadence does not mean you are going faster. You might just be running up and down on the spot. But it does improve a lot of the key elements of running form that will enable you to eventually run faster with less effort, because it takes full advantage of your bodyweight, your momentum, your elastic tissues, to get the most out of every landing step. We want to be using the 'free energy' from the ground so that we don't have to create so much ourselves, using our own muscular energy.
May 26, 2020
10 min
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