Chris Ryan Fitness

Summertime is beach time! You want to look your best. You want to show your friends and family those 6am training sessions have been paying off and that fish and veggie diet was not just a fad. Ok that is not you!? So you hit the snooze button a few times on those 6am gym …

Close your eyes and imagine the Olympic 100m final: some of the most powerful men and women on the planet are blasting down the track. Their arms and legs are pumping and exploding like powerful pistons. Immense force is being generated on both sides of the body as it pulls and twists the spine and …

Congrats! You are hitting your training program hard. You are constantly pushing yourself to new levels of personal performance. You should be proud of your efforts, but how do you know when enough is enough? God forbid if all that hard work results in, gulp, that nemesis of athletes all over the world: overtraining. My …

Have you ever thought about the surfaces you run on? Are you a steadfast road warrior who always pounds the pavement, yet finds themselves with shin splints or other overuse movements? Limiting yourself to only one running surface (especially an extremely hard one like cement and pavement) may lead to further problems as your body …