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Running shoes get a thumbs down from various critics (taken a little of context to be fair). Mick Habgood, podiatrist, and running orthotic specialist offers an alternative view in response:
This is the original article published in the Daily Mail:
http://tinyurl.com/cerpyu
Here is the alternate view from Mick:
Companies like those mentioned seem to create their idea of the [...]

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I read this blog yesterday whilst searching to see who else was talking about the G-trainer and marathon training. I came across this Addicted to Running Blog:

One pointless podiatrist appointment then another more fruitful one!
If you’ve been reading this blog for some time you’ll know that I’ve been wearing custom made orthotics for pretty much [...]

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Rafael Nadal has not been able to defend his title at the Queen’s Club due to an ongoing knee problem.
Nadal, who lost his unbeaten record in the French Open, was due to defend his title at the AEGON Championships before returning to Wimbledon for the third grand slam of the year.
However, the world number [...]

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Recycling this blog direct from Cj…
With 19 days left until registration closes, the Uk Open Kettlebell Competition 2009 is truly underway. Men, women and teams from throughout the UK and beyond will be stepping up to the platform and pitting themselves in a gruelling contest against the steel, plus raising money for two worth [...]

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Despite the tube strike the planned lecture as part of Balance’s CPD Evening Lecture series organised by Raph Rinaldi will continue:
Dr Simon Shepard, Team Physiotherapist of CCC Middlesex and CEO of Optima Life will present his research and clinical experience on different methods of monitoring recovery patterns according to various level of activity. This could [...]

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Graham is frequently out working with the sporting elite, this week is the AEGON Championships, the professional tennis tournament at The Queens Club, London. Graham is responsible for the players sports injury treatment there so will be working with the likes of Andy Roddick, Gael Monfils, James Blake, Nicholas Mahut and Rafael Nadal.
Image courtesy of [...]

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We have some well used, well loved kettlebells that need to be rehoused into caring homes. They need to make space for some shiny new competition and conventional /fitness cast iron bells we have coming.
It hurts me but some of our more aesthetically fixated clients won’t touch the roughed up ones.
But it presents an opportunity [...]

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On 22nd May 2009 the Arena Wien, (Vienna, Austria) hosted the Red Bull Art of Motion international free running competition.
Congratulations to Paul “Blue” Joseph who won first place in front of a crowd of 2,500. Paul is part of the Urban Freeflow team that Balance has recently become partners with to provide the team with [...]

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MMA Bay arranged a Q&A session on their forum with Michael Bisping, I logged on and asked a question on strength and conditioning. http://tinyurl.com/pb3lgx
There is also a training video on the Industrial Strength London website http://www.islondon.co.uk

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Although Asics are not the only running shoes we recommend we do stock a range of Asics running shoes for men and women because they are a company that puts design before fashion and we tend to find that a large percentage of our client’s biomechanics suit Asics trainers. Mick Habgood the running specialist podiatrist [...]

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