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Top 5 Tips to reduce injuries from endurance running: 1. Tight IT/Knee Pain: Start stretching and foam rolling! Runners get extremely tight IT bands (illiotibial bands) which is the fascia that lines the outside of your quad, if tight it can affect knee movements and tenderness to the patella. Patella tendinitis can also come from tight and weak hamstrings so work on those also. Foam rolling the outside and back of the legs everyday will fix it! This is also a great dynamic warm up  2. Shin Splints: Can be caused buy a number of factory including tight calves, muscular..

   It is with great please that we welcome Alice Round to the Sports Fever blog team. Alice is our resident expert on nutrition and training and will be imparting her vast knowledge to our community via our blog. Alice, is a Strength and conditioning coach, and nutritionist at shredded Strength Institute Floreat, "I have always had a passion for a healthy lifestyle and especially physically activity and nutrition. From a young age i have represented nationally in athletics in particular sprinting and surf life saving as well as being heavily involved in netball and other sports such as football,..

  adidas has released the world’s first intelligent football boot, the adizero f50 powered by miCoach. Here’s the deal. addidas took their lightest football boot, the adizero f50 (weighing in at a feather-light 165g) and hooked it up with miCoach technology, letting you track and upload performance data all from the sole of your boot. miCoach will keep up with you as you play, logging in speed, number of sprints, distance and time so you can get your head back where it belongs. In the game. Here’s how it works. The adizero f50 boot has a special space in the..

Today we'd like you to meet Rowena Kendall, a physiotherapist at Lifecare in Cottesloe. When a friend of hers passed away last year from cystic fibrosis, Rowena decided to do the Rottnest Channel Swin solo to fundraise for CFWA. She made it to Rotto in 6 hours and 16 minutes and raised just over $32,000. Rowena found some busy time in her schedule to chat to Sports Fever about her job, her preparation for the race and her experience. We hope you are inspired by her story as much as we were. What do you love most about being a..

If you are new to running, you may be experiencing some common ailments or injuries. According to Dave Moala from Bayswater Physiotherapy the most common runners conditions are tibial tenoperostitis (pain on the inside border of the tibia or shin bone, commonly referred to as “shin splints”), achilles tendon pain/injury and anterior knee pain (patello-femoral/knee cap pain). The causes for these three problems are also varied, but Dave says they can be loosely grouped into three categories, musculoskeletal and biochemical factors, training regimes and footwear. Musculoskeletal and biomechanical factors include joint stiffness or mobility, inadequate tissue length and muscle strength..

Last week we introduced you to Katrina Mercer, an elite triathlete sponsored by Sports Fever. Here's part two of our chat as Katrina shares her nutrition and training routine. What is your nutrition like on a normal day?  Nutrition on a normal day includes a lot of carbohydrate and protein based foods. I tend to limit saturated fat intake. I need to make sure I eat certain foods before, during and after training sessions to ensure proper recovery – especially as at the moment as I am training for the Busselton Half Ironman and a lot of the sessions are..

At Sports Fever we’ve always been proud to support the local sporting industry and of course, our local athletes. Katrina Mercer is an elite triathlete and one of the athletes we sponsor. Katrina was happy to take some time out of her busy training schedule to answer some of our questions. How did you get into triathlon?  I started swimming and little athletics when I was in early primary school then began competing in running events through school before following my dad and brother into triathlon when I was 15. From there I competed in National Schools Triathlon Championships &..

The make-up of children’s feet may discourage them from being active, a new study has shown. The study featured in the January 2011 issue of The Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, is the first to determine whether foot pressures generated during walking by preschool children were related to time spent in physical activity and sedentary behaviour. Results showed children who experience greater pressures on the plantar surface of the foot may suffer more pain and discomfort during weight bearing activities which in turn may act as a barrier to physical activity. Author of the study, Karen Mickle from the..

With The Australian Tennis Open inspiring many to take to the sport, tennis players can get an advantage via Sports Medicine Australia’s Preventing Tennis Injuries Fact Sheet. Always warm up, stretch and cool down Maintain an adequate fitness level. Undertake specific conditioning and training exercises that simulate tennis (i.e. acceleration, deceleration, twisting, turning and stretching). Seek instruction from a qualified coach to develop correct skills and techniques. Avoid over-repetition of any one type of shot. Practise a range of strokes including groundstrokes, serves, return of serves, overhead smashes and volleys. Use a racquet suitable for your style of play and..

Approximately two thirds (64%) of Australians aged 15 and over participated in at least one sport or physical recreational activity in the last twelve months, according to figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Unfortunately this participation rate has fallen from 66% when the survey was last undertaken in 2005-2006. The three most popular sport or physical recreational activities participated in by Australians were walking for exercise (23%); aerobics, fitness and gym activities (14%); and swimming and/or diving (7%). Women reported higher participation rates in each of these activities than men. Walking for exercise was also reported to..

Safety precautions should play part in New Year ‘get fit’ resolutions to avoid injury, advises Sports Medicine Australia. During January, many enthusiasts start new exercise regimes to get fit and lose weight gained over the festive season. However, without taking suitable safety precautions before starting activities, injuries can occur – postponing any fitness benefits. Each year one in 17 Australians is sidelined as result of a sports injury, making injuries one of the major barriers to participation. Sports Medicine Australia spokesperson, Dr David Bolzonello says this need not be the case, as up to half of all sporting injuries are..

Do your wear orthotics or a corrective device? Or are you finding you get pain in your feet, knees or back when you run? We all need a good podiatrist, physiotherapist and sports trainer in our life, even if it is a one off visit. Some people’s feet need more than a good shoe; some injuries need the advice of a good physiotherapist or sports doctor. The Sports Fever staff can and will direct you to the best people in your area, importantly they see a lot of customers who are already wearing corrective devices / orthotics and so have..

So you read our post on why summer safety is important? Here are some suggestions from Sports Medicine Australia to keep you safe in the heat. Stay hydrated by drinking water before, during and after exercise.  Schedule activity to avoid the hottest part of the day.  Take rest breaks, in the shade if possible.  Wear light coloured, lightweight and loose fitting clothing that allows easy evaporation of sweat from the skin. Wear sunglasses, 30+ sunscreen and a hat.  Reduce the duration and intensity of a warm up to minimise an increase in body heat and temperature.  Do not take part in..

During summer those who are active need to prepare for hot weather conditions or risk heat injury, warns Sports Medicine Australia. Being active in hot or humid conditions can lead to dehydration, heat illness and sometimes the more serious consequence of heat stroke. Sports Medicine Australia spokesperson Dr Anita Green says while physical activity is important for overall health, in the hotter months certain precautions need to be taken to avoid heat injuries. "Heat illness is a serious matter that can result in the life-threatening condition of heat stroke, if left untreated," Dr Green says. "While people need to exercise..