How to achieve maximum comfort on your run

Simple Tips

1. Pre-wash your shoes and running gear in FungiSolve.
2. Give yourself a foot massage everyday. Medipod Foot Repair Cream is a 2-min a day spa in a tube.

Benefits of FungiSolve

• Fungal and bacterial infections often return, even after successful treatment with creams or drugs, pre-washing your running shoes will help your feet feel soft and comfortable while you run.
• Some people believe that hard skin will prevent blisters but this is a common misconception.
• Economic laundry solution, that decontaminates any materials even in cold water, in washing machine or by soaking.
• Scientific tests have shown that FungiSolve will not damage cloth, dye colour or stitching of expensive sports shoes and clothes.

Benefits of Medipod Foot Repair Cream

• 4-way treatment: moisturises, exfoliates, combats fungi and deodorises.
• Medipod Foot Repair Cream moisturises, exfoliates and strengthens skin, as well as combats fungi and bacteria and the odours these infections cause.
• Prevents Athlete’s Foot, which requires warmth and moisture to survive and grow. 

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Tips on how to train longer for Comrades

What is DOMS?

It is the result of damage to the muscle cells during intense exercise.

This causes inflammation, swelling and tenderness as the muscles repair themselves.

How to prevent DOMS?

In order to reduce muscle soreness after a workout, it is necessary to do a proper warm up before exercising. This wakes up the muscles and prepares them for physical activity. It is also important to avoid pushing yourself past your physical limit and to build up your workouts gradually instead (hope you already been doing this Comrade’s runners!)

Understand that lactic acid causes the burning sensation during a workout and DOMS is damage to muscle cells and has a long-term effect.

Reducing lactic acid build up though it won't prevent DOMS, will help you to work out harder for longer, which is essential for any athlete training for a marathon.

How to prevent Lactic Acid Build up?

1. Stay hydrated.
   
2. Breathe deep while exercising (main cause of lactic acid build up, is lack of Oxygen while exercising).
   
3. Exercise frequently.
   
4. Stretch after workout.
   
5. Warm up before work out.
   
6. Increase your magnesium, fatty acid intake and drink baking soda dissolved in water to make your body alkaline.
   
7. Eat foods that are rich in vitamin B.