An expert coach recommends these three exercises if you keep tripping over yourself when you run

There are sprinters, plodders, slouchers and over-striders. Me? I'm a heel-clipper.

Whether I’m feeling fresh or fatigued, I often catch my feet against each other when I run—no doubt slowing myself down in the process.

So when I recently interviewed Emmanuel Ovola , an expert running coach, physiotherapist and Technogym ambassador with a lightning-fast 5K time (16min 40sec), I asked where I was going wrong. You may like

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Ovola told me I had a classic case of cross-over gait, a running style that causes my feet to cross the midline of my body, like