Get Off Your Arse: A ran-dumb blog to get you moving, by a bit of a nudge and a bit of a push.
La Ultra - The High 111 km team challenge
Here is your chance to be part of this outrageous event called La Ultra - The High. A run in Leh - Ladakh where very high altitude, low oxygen content and out of this world beauty will literally take your breath away.
You need to put together a team of three that will run 111 km in a relay format where each runner will run about 20 km twice over. Yes, anyone is capable of doing it, but not everyone has the self belief to get to the start line.
Last week (18) plan before Mumbai Marathon
Mumbai marathon is only 4-5 days away now. You need to take it very easy during these few days before the race. Even if you are not doing it and training for New Delhi Marathon, which is in 7 weeks time, take this week easy.
What you can very easily do in the last week before the marathon in your eagerness to train, is injure yourself. If you haven’t trained enough, please don’t risk a permanent injury. It might be better not to run. Think long term, not just about this one race.
Running marathons back to back & running sideways to keep fit
Listen to episode 28# of MoveMint, Mint newspaper's podcast on running. Running marathons back to back, running on tarmac post back injury & running sideways to keep fit.
Why things hurt?
All of us experience pain. It is your body and it is your business to know what is going on in your body. I firmly believe in Einstein's quote that 'if you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough'. Here we go with a simple explanation on pain.
Importance of Pre-Hab before Surgery
Does getting a surgery mean that there is no need to do pre-hab before surgery and rehab post surgery? You aren't only an injured body part. You are a lot more than that. Think of the whole you. If you respect yourself, doctors and the rest will follow too.
Shoulder pain: Does it really need a tagline?
Do not blame the name, Understand the game.
A lot has been said about diagnosing shoulder pain where the focus is too much on identifying the structural damage. Whereas when it comes to managing pain, it has been seen that the symptoms are produced by multiple factors including posture, mobility and muscular strength in and around shoulder joint.
Pain can be a disease too, not a symptom alone
We think of pain as a symptom, but there are cases where the nervous system develops feedback loops and pain becomes a terrifying disease in itself. Starting with the story of a girl whose sprained wrist turned into a nightmare, in a TedTalk Dr Elliot Krane talks about the complex mystery of chronic pain, and reviews the facts we're just learning about how it works and how to treat it.
Full Marathon Training Plan: Week 17
I am of a firm opinion that anyone who is able bodied and is remotely fit, is capable of running a full marathon in under 4 hrs, of course with appropriate training. 85 year old Ed Whitlock recently did the distance in 3hrs 56min 39sec.
Fear of fall is worse than the fall itself
I have been telling my patients for a while now that fear of pain is far worse than pain itself. I would say that based on some personal experience but a lot more based on what I was told by my amazing teachers over the years.
'(Expecting) Instant relief is a problem with patients and doctors'
'I have a reputation of being invited to medical conferences just once and never again. That's because I call a spade a spade.': Interview of the author of The Pain Handbook: A non-surgical way to managing back, neck and knee pain, with DNA newspaper.