Ten days ago I thought my London marathon experience was over, however the healing hands of a local fitness trainer comes to save the day.

As I have stated before the training for the London marathon is very hard and takes a lot out of your body, especially the knees the worse part of it, is not knowing what is wrong should your body start to say no.

Ten days ago I came to a complete stand still with my training due to an unbearable pain in my left knee; I couldn’t rum more than 500 meters never mind over 26 miles. With only 2 weeks left to go before the marathon I was absolutely shattered and didn’t know where to turn. I was going to do the normal soldier task by taking pain relief and carrying on however that wasn’t working this time.

By fate I had previously been in contact with Boris from outrageously active by email about a charity event that we are planning to do together later in the year. As Boris comes under the category of personal trainer I didn’t think for a minute that me contacting him would help, as you would automatically think a personal trainer makes you fit and looses you weight, how wrong I was.

What Boris doesn’t know about how the human body works is not worth knowing, with 13 years as a Military PTI and 7 years in business with outrageously active he has bags of experience. I rang him on the Monday he had me in his studio on Tuesday and I was running 10 miles on Tuesday evening as if I had a new leg, absolutely amazing.

His main area of expertise is on the human posture and how the body is balanced, if the body is unbalanced and your posture is wrong it can lead to all sorts of problems, I could go on forever about his techniques and what effects what, but that is a book in itself, but at the end of the day he has put me well and truly back on track for the 13th April 08.

I would like to pass on a personal thanks to Boris and welcome him onboard the Charity Support team, and also I would like this to show what a great community spirit we have in Weymouth.

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