Free 7-Day Email Course
Free Achilles course from a Melbourne CBD podiatrist
Sore or stiff Achilles when you walk, run, train, or get moving in the morning?
Tendon Time helps you understand tendon load, common rehab mistakes, and when a personalised Achilles assessment may be useful.
Based in Melbourne?
Pride Podiatry is at 80 Collins Street in Melbourne CBD. The course is free for anyone, but if your Achilles pain is limiting running, walking, gym, sport, or work, an assessment can help clarify what is irritated and how to load it appropriately.
Achilles pain usually needs better load decisions
Rest, stretching, shoes, exercises, shockwave, orthotics. They can all sound like answers.
Tendon Time starts with a better question: what load is your tendon currently tolerating, and what load is tipping it over?
What You'll Learn
Why Your Achilles Gets Stiff And Sore
Understand load versus capacity, and why morning stiffness is often a useful clue.
Why Location Matters
Learn why mid-portion and insertional Achilles symptoms are not always managed the same way.
How To Start Loading
Use simple pain and next-morning rules to decide whether the dose is tolerable.
Where Shoes And Support Fit
Shoes and orthotics can change load. They are useful tools, but they are not the whole plan.
When Assessment May Help
Learn the signs that general advice is not enough and individual assessment may be useful.
How To Use The Load Map
At the end of the course, get the map for deciding when to progress, hold, reset, or get help.
Who Is Tendon Time For?
Tendon Time is especially useful if you are an active Melbourne or Victorian adult with Achilles stiffness, morning pain, running flare-ups, walking pain, gym-related tendon irritation, or a tendon problem that keeps returning when you increase load.
- ✓Runners dealing with persistent Achilles stiffness or soreness
- ✓People on their feet all day who feel tightness at the back of the heel
- ✓Gym-goers who want more than another stretch
- ✓Anyone trying to work out whether to progress, hold, reset, or get assessed
Start with Tendon Time if...
Your symptoms are mild, stable, and you want to understand the basics before changing your exercises, shoes, or training.
Book an Achilles assessment if...
The pain has lasted more than a few weeks, keeps returning when you train or walk, is changing how you move, or you want a plan matched to your tendon load, footwear, and goals.
Your Day 7 Gift
The Achilles Load Map
At the end of Tendon Time, you will get the Achilles Load Map. It is not a complete rehab program or a substitute for individual care. It is a practical decision map that helps you work out what to do next.
What loading stage to start from
When to progress
When to hold
When to use a 72-hour reset
When an Achilles assessment may be useful
How to use next-morning stiffness as your scorecard
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is this course for?
Tendon Time is for runners, walkers, gym-goers, and active adults dealing with Achilles stiffness or pain, especially first-step stiffness in the morning or symptoms that flare when load increases.
Why should I treat Achilles pain early?
Achilles symptoms often become more frustrating when the load problem is not addressed. Early action does not need to mean panic or complete rest. It usually means understanding what your tendon can currently tolerate, reducing the irritating spike, and building capacity gradually.
Why should I trust this course?
Tendon Time was created by Tim Mulholland, a Melbourne CBD podiatrist and clinical educator who treats Achilles pain in active people. It is based on load-management principles used in modern tendon rehab, explained in plain English.
Is this a replacement for seeing a podiatrist?
No. Tendon Time is general education. It can help you understand tendon load and make better starting decisions, but it cannot diagnose your Achilles or build a plan around your exact symptoms, footwear, training, work demands, and goals.
Your Instructor
Tim Mulholland
Tim is a podiatrist, founder of Pride Podiatry, and clinical educator at La Trobe University.
He has also dealt with Achilles tendinopathy himself, so he understands the annoying gap between knowing what to do and actually getting the tendon to tolerate it.
Access Tendon Time for freeStop guessing at your Achilles
Start with the free course. Use the Load Map. If the map shows you are stuck, Pride can help you work out the next useful step in clinic.