Running Analysis in Leamington Spa
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Running Analysis is an essential part of your pre and mid season training program.
Whether you are preparing for the Regency Run, or the Leamington Spa half Marathon. By understanding how you run, you can start to address inefficiencies and avoid injuries.
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Based just outside Leamington Spa, we are Sports Scientists and Running Specialists able to effectively analyse how you run by looking at your biomechanics.
Why have a running analysis?
The way you run can hugely affect your run times as well as your chances of getting an injury.
No two people run in the same way, and the optimal running style for you will be different to someone else. When your foot hits the floor in running, you get a ground reaction force that comes up through your body.
Depending on how your specific body works and where your strengths and weaknesses are, that ground reaction force can either improve or hinder your running.
Those forces can cause your knees, hips, back and even shoulders to move fluidly together, or they can work against you, creating injuries for the future.
This is why an analysis of your running is an essential part of your running journey.
What happens during the assessment?
Our running assessment sessions take 50 minutes During this time we will assess your posture and analyse how you run.
We use video technology to video you running out in the real world, this allows us to see how your foot strikes the floor, as well as the effect this has throughout your body all the way from your feet to your head.
Along with your history and our physical assessment, this allows us change your running style to either improve your efficiency of running and therefore your run times, or to get rid of a running injury, or to prevent you getting injured in the future.
Within this session we ask you to run in all of your shoes and we give you advice on the best shoes for you.
S Bancroft
I visited the Clinic for a running gait assessment and was really impressed with the information and guidance Ian was able to provide to help me tackle an Achilles problem after a short video assessment. He was very professional, knowledgeable and gave me confidence that the issue is not the end of my running career!
I would recommend him to anyone wanting to get to the bottom of a sports injury. His advice was practical and helpful. Thank you.
It is six years since I had a gait assessment which was on a tread mill. So visiting the clinic for a new gait assessment after all these years was nothing like I expected. Ian’s approach by videoing my gait with me running and then analysing in slow motion was massively revealing.
Even more revealing when I repeated the run in one of my older pair of running shoes. I now understand why I am prone to so many injuries.! Ian was able to give me a series of exercises to help strengthen the weak points that were picked up. A fantastic approach to injury treatment and even better to provide a route to prevention in the future.
A very down to earth and practical advice which has now also helped my rebalance my training regime to help reduce injury and rejuvenate my running. Thank you
I went to the clinic for a running gait assessment with Ian. No specific injury problems, but from the wear on my running shoes I knew there was something not quite right. A very professional approach to not only analysing my style but also identifying the cause of the problem.
Suggested exercises provided which should help, and the offer to review again in a few months if I sent a video. Couldn't really have asked for more.
