How to Structure a Warm Up

How to Structure a Warm Up

The purpose of a warm up is to prime your muscles, your nervous system and your brain for the rigors of what you are about to undertake.  Depending on the duration and intensity, you could be putting your body under tremendous stress so you want to ease into that and...
What is in my Recovery Toolkit?

What is in my Recovery Toolkit?

This is Part 2 of a 3-part series on running without injury: Part 1 – What I Did to Avoid Running Injuries for the Past 3 Years Part 2 [You are here] – What’s in my Recovery Toolkit? Part 3 – Injury is Not Normal I’m 35.  Not exactly over...
Take a Breath

Take a Breath

Take a big deep breath in.  Do you think you got as much air in as you possibly could?  Now exhale.  No, really push out.  Now push out some more.  And more. So many of us live in such a fast paced world that even our breathing speeds up.  It’s not that we breathe...