Tip of the Month
Runners Need have teamed up
with LGN Wellbeing to provide all our customers with the best running advice
available.
LGN was established by Ben Pochee, an
international runner with an academic background in Sport Science.
Ben had worked successfully with Runners
Need as a consultant in all running-related issues, therefore the synergy with
LGN was a natural running fit for Runners Need and its customers.
Creating and installing in-house corporate
running clubs, LGN uses über running passionate personal trainers to provide an
unparalleled running service and has a client list that includes some of London’s leading blue chip
companies.
LGN also provide advice and information on
all matters running via their marathon training sessions, running events, email
coaching service and seminar provision.
Key running brand Nike have worked with LGN
to provide running seminars in Niketown London and help develop the training
programme for the hugely popular Nike Run London 10km series.
LGN is dedicated to make running a fitness
gift for life for as many people as possible and especially those who
previously believed running was for ‘other’ people.
See also www.lgnwellbeing.com
LGN Tip of the month - March 2010: ‘Runners need their oats'
Porridge is the breakfast gift that just keeps giving, check out LGN’s top 5 health facts.
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LGN Tip of the month - January 2010: ‘A Very fresh running start'
To help you plan your wardrobe for running this winter, LGN have come up with a three point action plan to help you consider what to wear while running in this inhospitable weather.
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LGN Tip of the month - November 2009: ‘Failing to achieve Great 26.2 Expectations?'
What the Dickens?!
Recent articles in the US indicate that many runners stateside are struggling to achieve their marathon expectations and indeed fail to find the true benefits of running a marathon.
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LGN Tip of the month - October 2009: ‘I am not a number, I am a pace-judging and body-empathising guru'
One of the beautiful aspects of running is that while fitness can be measured, calibrated and downloaded onto a spreadsheet, how you actually use this fitness is somewhat less numeric nor black and white.
Instead, pace judgement requires us to obtain a true feel for what our body is trying to tell us and the art of getting in tune with fitness is just as important as the training itself.
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LGN Tip of the month - July 2009: ‘LGN 1km London Loops'
After building a period of gentle running consistency, the next step within the LGN philosophy is control, and - like a painter equipped with canvas & brush - you are now in position to truly make your mark. Training that is comparable and measured over time provides the backbone to running progression.
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LGN Tip of the month - June 2009: ‘Keep doing it ‘vigorously’ and you won’t go blind!'
Good news for friends of LGN and indeed anyone in need of yet further motivation to lace up and get running out the front door in search of their aerobic threshold. Contrary to the fears of an entire teenage population, latest robust research indicates a strong link between vigorous exercise and reduced risk of losing your sight.
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LGN Tip of the month - Marathon Special: ‘Porridge & Paparazzi’
For those with the Marathon on their mind, in the immortal words of 80’s soft rock legends Europe ‘It’s the Final Countdown’. But while you eat porridge like Goldilocks and the Three Bears and covertly rub in Vaseline, it should also be noted that the London Marathon also provides a unique opportunity to share exactly the same experience as many faces from MTV or Heat magazine.
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LGN Tip of the month - April 2009: ‘Aggregation of Marginal Gains’
Well OK, so we at LGN may well have purely studied for various sports science qualifications which ordinarily would not give us the clout to string such long words together in a rather catchy phrase. However, as we love sport, we have passionately followed British Cycling with glee in recent years culminating in the 7 out of 10 Gold medals at the Beijing Olympics and that term ‘aggregation of marginal gains’ just kept popping up.
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LGN Tip of the month - February 2009: ‘Fitting running into your working day'
‘Workin’ 9 to 5(km), what a way to make a livin’…’
Dolly Parton’s lung-busting voice sang it and we like to think we at LGN help deliver the ‘9 – 5’ functional lung-developing experience.
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LGN Tip of the month - January 2009: ‘Cool Runnings?'
“The finest clothing made is a person's skin, but of course, society demands something more than this.” (Mark Twain)
Nice words by Mr Twain - and indeed your skin is amazing, with 19 million skin cells per square inch, being the largest organ of the body and always renewing itself, etc… However, when Jack Frost is keen to accompany you on most of your winter runs, your running kit suddenly becomes vital for protecting your skin and you.
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LGN Tip of the month - December 2008: ‘A run is for life, not just for Christmas’
While the cold blanket of December settles and induces lethargy for many, for others the countdown to the Winter Solstice marks two ancient and iconic lunar running phases.
1. Ye Olde London Marathon ballot place cometh good
2. The bell doth toll for New Year’s running resolutions
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LGN Tip of the month - November 2008: ‘Running rhythm - music to your ears?’
LGN are strong advocates of striving to enjoy each run and finding a way that you can get the most smile-time from each aerobic two-stepping effort, and listening to music for many people can certainly enhance the endorphin running joy.
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LGN Tip of the month - May 2008: ‘Top 10 Running Myths.’
You woke on Sunday 13th April, bleary eyed, turned on the TV to see 36,000 people pounding the streets of London and smiling . . . and just maybe you thought, ‘Yeah, why not?’
So to help you get started, we thought it might be good to dispel a few running myths so you can begin your journey with fact not fiction:
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LGN Tip of the month - March 2008: ‘Top 10 Marathon Tips.’
Well, the time is almost nigh, you have trained like a Trojan, perhaps have one final long run left to do, and now you need to plan some of the pre-race practicalities and logistics that are very often overlooked and can sometimes render your fantastic training redundant.
Welcome to LGN’s Top 10 Marathon Tips.
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LGN Tip of the month - February 2008: ‘Practical Food Advice . . . for life.’
At LGN we often get asked for practical food advice, and there is indeed a plethora of research and books available on the subject. I firmly believe that there is no one eating structure for everyone and would instead encourage everybody to be aware of some basic food facts and then discover over time what works for their lifestyle and their physiological requirements.
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LGN Tip of the month - January 2008: ‘You gotta have sole . . . and a midsole and, er, an upper. . .’
The art of running is beautifully simple and, while not quite painting by numbers, finding your own style is very much part of the process.
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LGN Tip of the month - October 2007: Hydration
You can lead a horse to water . . .
. . . but more than likely the water has been siphoned off by dehydration fearful runners.
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LGN Tip of the month - September 2007: The LGN 3-step Beginners’ Running Guide.
So you took the deep breath and walked into the Runners’ Emporium that is Runners Need, were bamboozled by a whole world of running jargon and very helpful staff informing you that perhaps you ever so slightly ‘overpronated’ and required a mild ‘medial post’ in your trainers . . . etc.
And now you are at home looking at the shoes as they dazzle you in there iridescent multicoloured rainbow of new shoe glow . . . you know that running is one of the most powerful forms of exercise you can do and you really do want to shift those extra few pounds that have slowly emerged over the course of following Wimbledon, the last series of 24 and now the Rugby World Cup from your very comfy sofa and so you are thinking ‘What now?’
To get the most from your new running shoes and the beautiful sport that is running, you need to follow the LGN 3-step philosophy.
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LGN Tip of the month - August 2007: Periodisation – All Greek to you? – Let’s discuss . . .
To gain improvements in your running, whether you are hoping to go sub-30min for the first time over 10km or indeed break the hour mark – the same basic principle runs true:
You can’t keep doing the same thing and expect a different result.
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LGN Tip of the month - July 2007: Good nutrition for runners...
As runners, be it beginners or advanced, we all make sacrifices to achieve and hopefully improve. The sacrifices are often basic - go for interval running session in the rain OR watching celeb TV and finding out if Big Brother's Jade really is set to return once more to the BB house for 2007 . . . yup, sacrifices.
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LGN Tip of the month - June 2007: Working with your body, not against it...
To get the the best performance from yourself or to simply gain the most enjoyment from your running, it is very important to work with what your body can tell you and indeed from what you know about past experiences and how your body has responded.
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