Well, what a start to 2021 January was. I expected some tighter restrictions following the Christmas period, but had hoped it wouldn’t be a national lockdown. And it wouldn’t have been quite so bad if the schools hadn’t closed – that threw a real spanner in the works. It hit my ability to fit running…

Lesson 2 – If I can’t run, what can I do? OK, so in the last lesson email you looked at getting yourself some kind of plan – even if that’s a rough sketch that makes you think about a goal and provides some loose guidance on how to get there. We also looked at…

Lesson 3 – Threat Levels. From the last couple of emails, you’ve formed a plan and learned how not to get too stressed if you can’t stick to it, and you’ve got some exercises you can do to help improve your hip and core fluidity and activation. Today’s lesson will help you take a different…

Lesson 4 – Taking The First Step This post relates to my Blueprint for running, which is free to download here – from my other site, The Confident Runner. I hope you’ve been getting the benefit from the lessons I’ve been sharing with you in the last few emails. Of course, all of this stuff…

Lesson 5 – Process and Result This post relates to my Blueprint for running, which is free to download here – from my other site, The Confident Runner. In the last lesson you learned that putting your focus on the process rather than the end result is a better way to find success. However, you still need an end…

Lesson 6 – Running Technique This post relates to my Blueprint for running, which is free to download here – from my other site, The Confident Runner. I hope you’ve been enjoying this series of emails, and you are finding them useful. If you are, could I ask you a favour? Could you please share…

Lesson 7 – Running Technique This post relates to my Blueprint for running, which is free to download here – from my other site, The Confident Runner. Firstly, from the next email they will be titled Lessons From The Blueprint as I now want to dive more into helping you improve your technique. In the last lesson,…

Upper Body This post relates to my Blueprint for running, which is free to download here – from my other site, The Confident Runner. By the time you read this email, you’ll be much more aware of the sound that you make as you run, as you learned in the last lesson. In this lesson,…

Midsection Part 2 This post relates to my Blueprint for running, which is free to download here – from my other site, The Confident Runner. In the last email we looked at the rotation of your shoulders and upper back (thoracic spine). You learned that your brain will use a huge amount of energy performing…

Midsection Part 3 This post relates to my Blueprint for running, which is free to download here – from my other site, The Confident Runner. Firstly, I want to thank you for continuing to read these emails and I’m glad you are finding them useful. Secondly, you’ll have noticed I’ve reduced them to one per…

Hips, Hips Hips! This post relates to my Blueprint for running, which is free to download here – from my other site, The Confident Runner. Right then. You’ve had kind of a deeper dive into the self-assessment side of things than I had originally intended. It’s where I would start if I were teaching run…

Legs and Heels This post relates to my Blueprint for running, which is free to download here – from my other site, The Confident Runner. After last week’s email you may think there’s not much point in continuing with the self-assessment until you’ve got your hips sorted. And to some degree this is right. (If…