Fifty percent of people who start an exercise programme quit within the first six months, so starting exercise and sticking to an exercise programme can be challenging. Before you start you need to ask yourself these questions to determine whether it's SAFE for you to exercise:

Choosing to exercise at home or in a gym will depend on a few things. First, do you know how to start an exercise programme? If not are you prepared to put in the research to find something that will actually get you results?

Stretching is still very much a debated subject within the scientific community. Some studies suggest the benefits are undeniable regarding injury prevention, while others report little or no benefits at all. There are a few things that everyone does agree on though: stretching improves flexibility, and when done correctly stretching can increase the range of motion of the fibrous fascia surrounding the muscles of the body. I want to explain these points further and hopefully provide you with the knowledge required to achieve your running goals faster.

It has been, or should I say used to be, a long standing misconception that strength training was just for athletes and casual fitness enthusiasts who wanted to build bigger muscles. However, it is now widely accepted that strength training is an integral part of many sports conditioning programmes, as a means of improving power, speed and muscular endurance.

Sports specific strength training requires a more sophisticated approach than merely picking up an impressive weight and curling it to absolute exhaustion. While most sports are very skill specific, it's easy to see that most of them require some kind of muscular endurance, speed, power or even all three.