Wear patterns in shoes whether it be running or general use can show significant clues in understanding and assessing a runner. General recommendation for runners is to change shoes every…
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With all the hype surrounding Usain Bolt’s seemingly effortless victories at Rio we thought this might be a good opportunity to talk about why rules don’t work when it comes…
With the emergence of smart watches able to monitor a plethora of data relevant for runners far beyond just distance and time comes the ability to track and work on…
Running shoe selection is important, we can all agree on that front. Any runner should have a keen interest in what wraps their feet, starting with the understanding that there’s…
Running Is A Skill Malcolm Gladwell states in his book ‘Outliers’ that it takes 10,000 hours of purposeful practice to master a skill. If we are spending 10 hours a…
To be able to complete activities overhead you need mobility. Are you sick of this word? Do you even understand it? Mobility is essentially comprised of two parts; range of…
The knee is often the bearer of injury and pain amongst runners. Most runners will have heard of or been on the receiving end of diagnoses such as patellofemoral pain…
For decade’s coaches, trainers and athletes have sworn by the post-workout ice bath, claiming decreased recovery times, increased hypertrophy and increased strength due to the notion that inflammatory processes inhibit…
Chest is out….Back is in! Unfortunately as a society we exist in an anteriorly dominated world, from driving our car, to texting our friends and families and even eating and…
Recently in clinic we have been throwing around the creation of a goat track analogy for movement and memory. Neurology and movement go hand in hand. We utilise the nervous…
NEURAL PRIMING – Eccentrics build strength @bigred322 demonstrating a deadlift warm up we’ve been playing with to prime the posterior chain. Focus on the slow controlled descent maintaining a stacked…
Fatigueability in running is generally recognised through soreness in calves, knees and hips at certain points in time during the gait cycle. However as discussed previously what if the fatigue…
In the human body all systems are interconnected. From the nervous system and the musculoskeletal system to the digestive and immune system. It would be INCOMPLETE to just address one system…
Well almost, Our newest toy at TRIDENT MT is the not so humble laser. We have taken to creating a visual feedback tool for the purpose of re-patterning and rehab….
OPTIMISE – Movement Patterns “First move well then move often”- those are the words of movement guru Gray Cook. It couldn’t ring more true for any activity and especially gym…
