Half of cyclists get knee pain. Most bike fits measure the wrong thing.
Overuse knee pain turns up in about half of all cyclists. That figure comes from a review of the saddle height literature, […]
Your knee is where it hurts. It’s rarely where it started.
If your knee has started hurting when you run, you have almost certainly been told your glutes are weak. It is the […]
How to taper properly (and why it feels so wrong)
Most people get the taper roughly right by accident and then spend two weeks quietly undermining it. They cut the volume, which […]
Increasing training volume without getting injured
Every September the same thing happens in Perth. The mornings warm up, the evenings stretch out, the race calendar opens, and thousands […]
How much strength training do you actually need?
We’ve written before about why endurance athletes should lift — the running economy gains, the lactate threshold improvements, the tendon stiffness changes […]
Your Ironman build: when you’ll actually get injured
Ironman Western Australia is on 6 December at Busselton, with the 70.3 on the same day. If you’re racing either distance, your […]
Optimising Crank length for road, triathlon and time trial cyclists
After some media publicity around the topic and reading all sides of the debate online, the On Form Physio team decided to […]
Is stretching worth your time?
Stretching before and after exercise is a standard part of most people’s routine. It’s probably what has been drilled into most people […]
Strength Training for Endurance Athletes
It has been long thought that strength training was only for bodybuilders and power lifters. There is now a growing body of […]