Stretching – do we need to do it?

January 24, 2020 | by Katie Meredith, Performance Rehabilitation Coach, www.fortiussport.com ‘I’m just so TIGHT!’ ‘I definitely need to stretch more.’  ‘I can’t even reach my hands past my knees!’ We’ve heard it all before. Being ‘inflexible’ is commonly viewed as a hindrance to our bodies and stretching is commonly viewed as the answer. Before…

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Resolutions are not just for New Year

By Jim Constable, from The Performance Room We know that by mid-January countless New Year’s resolutions will have been abandoned. Why? – What’s not working about how people set goals? We’ve been banging on for a few years now with our thoughts on goals. Here’s some key principles we return to again and again. Firstly,…

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Fall 7 Times, Get Up 8

Derek Redmond was favored to medal in the 400-meter race for Great Britain at the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain.  But 150 meters into the semifinal race he felt a searing pain in his right leg and fell to the ground in agony with a torn hamstring.  He was not willing to give…

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