Developing core and back strength through barefoot running

Yesterday we went to Vienna for a day trip with the kids.  They love it: wandering around the old inner city, visiting palaces and dreaming of fairy-tale princesses…  Towards the end of the day we also spent a couple of hours at the Natural History Museum, so by the time it came to returning to the car for the return trip home, we’d spent a good six hours on our feet.  It was then that my elder daughter started complaining: ‘My back hurts!  I’m going to have sore muscles tomorrow!’lower-back-pain

Ah, ‘museum back.’  We all know it.  That achy, knotted feeling in the lower back: the symptom of too much culture, of standing for too long looking at paintings, sculptures or dinosaurs. Continue reading Developing core and back strength through barefoot running