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26.06.2022
26.06.2022Muscle cramps during or shortly after training
Muscle cramps during training or at other times are certainly familiar to almost every one of us. During a cramp, the skeletal muscle contracts...Tuusa Running coaching09.01.2022
09.01.2022Body peace in sports
Every month and a year, body peace in sports raises its head and the subject is repeatedly on the surface. Athletes talk about how their appearance, weight and body are publicly judged, coaches monitor weight…...Tuusa Running coaching31.10.2021
31.10.2021I started strength training, and I’m too sore…
Roughly speaking, there are two types of runners, those who do strength training and those who avoid it. Sometimes those who avoid strength training...Tuusa Running coaching22.08.2021
22.08.2021Humans are the greatest distance runners in t...
We are born to run and we are the greatest distance runners in the world. We might lose with speed to cheetahs and antelopes, but we win every other...Tuusa Running coaching11.07.2021
11.07.2021What happens to you when running a marathon?
Marathons are fun, right? We all know that after marathon muscles are quite sore for a couple of days. But, there are happening a lot more than...Tuusa Running coaching27.06.2021
27.06.2021Review: Master Your Core – Dr. Bohdanna Zazul...
I got to chance to read Master Your Core: A Science-Based Guide to Achieve Peak Performance and Resilience to Injury by Dr Bohdanna Zazulak. I also...Tuusa Running coaching16.05.2021
16.05.2021Body composition methods – how can benefit?
The scale doesn’t tell everything. What do you need to know about body composition methods? Are they reliable? Who can benefit them and who...Tuusa Running coaching02.05.2021
02.05.2021Interview: sports massage therapist Juha Haut...
I have a great opportunity to get an interview with Juha Hautakorpi, sports massage therapist. Who also do endurance sports. He provided a lot of...Tuusa Running coaching21.03.2021
21.03.2021Runners foot and ankle mobility for better pe...
Runners tend to look after their legs and train them to stronger, but foot and ankle mobility is often overlooked and forgot. Poor foot and ankle...Tuusa Running coaching17.01.2021
17.01.2021Should women train differently than men?
In a physical perspective, there is some difference between women and men. Women are often described slower and weaker, because of the physical...Tuusa Running coaching08.11.2020
08.11.2020Hamstring movements for runners
In the case of runners, there is often talk of little tension, which is expected to improve economic running and thus performance. The mobility and...Lola Pähkinämäki
21.07.2020
21.07.2020What we are?
Where are we coming from? For me as interesting question is, where are we going to? Who we are, but also the question what we are, will surely tease me...Tuusa Running coaching19.07.2020
19.07.2020RUNNING ECONOMY FACTORS – which you can partl...
Running economy (RE) means runners’ energy utilization when they are running at aerobic intensity. There are multiple factors, which plays the...Tuusa Running coaching
05.07.2020
05.07.2020Running with narrow stride width or toe-out?
Each of us has individual running style and foot pattern, but sometimes they can cause more harm than good. Runners often observe their foot stride...Goodlifebyme14.04.2020
14.04.2020Wheat or oat bag, Kauratyyny
Sore neck? Tight muscles? Let’s make an oat bag to help deal with the pain. Here is what you need: Fabric for the inner bag and outer bag Peeled oats Sewing equipment This is what you...Tuusa Running coaching
19.01.2020
19.01.2020Do you need a cold shower after a workout?
We all have seen athletes using an ice bath or hear them speaking about a cold shower. After a workout in hot weather, you might want to take a cold...Tuusa Running coaching
08.12.2019
08.12.2019SCIENCE TALK: cool-down, do we need it?
I have written about warm-up earlier, you can find it here. It contained benefits and importance of warm-up, the excellent warm-up protocol to...Tuusa Running coaching
01.12.2019
01.12.2019SCIENCE TALK: the truth about lactate and lac...
Everyone’s favourite subject lactate or lactic acid! The topic that rises up regularly, with plenty of mistakes and misunderstanding. You might...Tuusa Running coaching
13.10.2019
13.10.2019SCIENCE TALK: warm-up, do we need it?
First, lace your shoes and then start running, maybe slower at the beginning so the body will have time to warm-up, that’s enough? Right?...neurotravel.eu
29.08.2019
29.08.2019Back in Physiotherapy
Last Tuesday I was finally back in physiotherapy, and it felt both good and heavy, the latter one especially for my legs. We toured the gym excluding devices I can’t use because of the...Tuusa Running coaching
14.07.2019
14.07.2019SCIENCE TALK: The consist of distance running...
Roughly speaking running performance can be divided into three sections; psychological factors, biomechanics and physiological factors. Each of these...Tuusa Running coaching
26.05.2019
26.05.2019SCIENCE TALK: Energy systems and strength training
There are three energy systems in human body. I’m not going to explain how they break down, to avoid making this post extra long. I’m...Tuusa Running coaching
01.04.2018
01.04.2018How massage affects the body?
Relaxation and opening muscles knots, are maybe two the most common reason why people seek massage therapist help. But, if we eliminate relaxation and tight muscles, is there are any other...Tuusa Running coaching
25.02.2018
25.02.2018Foam rolling tips
Foam roller that painful, but so wonderful tool, it can help to ease knots and relax sore muscles, but do you take all benefits from it or do you use it right? 1. Don’t only… LisääTuusa Running coaching
21.01.2018
21.01.2018Should runners do strength training?
Just run, that’s enough? Or is it? Becoming the better and faster runner, doesn’t only mean tons of running alone. Runners should also do...Tuusa Running coaching
18.06.2017
18.06.2017How to cure shin splints
Shin splints or Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome (MTSS) is a common injury among runners. It is usually the result of overuse of tibia muscles, especially the tibial anterior. When the muscle...Tuusa Running coaching
16.05.2017
16.05.2017DOMS – what it really is?
One of my client asked me another day, why her muscles feel sore day or couple day after training, why not immediately? Simple answer is because it DOMS, but in the reality what is DOMS… LisääTuusa Running coaching
20.04.2017
20.04.2017Plyometric training for runners
What is plyometric training? Plyometric training is often perceived as explosive jumping exercises, even if it means short, mostly of own body weight...
17.04.2017
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