How to Build Mental Toughness for Runners
If you have ever run before you will know that it doesn’t just take practice, more distance and increased speed work to make you a …
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External Factors to Consider for Lower Leg Pain in Runners
Lower leg pain is incredibly common in runners, both new and experienced. And right now, in this year of unusual and different training for so many, new aches and pains are creeping up. This leads to a lot of unhappy runners!
Quantifying Training Load
In the running world, the most common way to measure training load is how many miles per week an athlete is doing. While running distance is an important factor, it only accounts for one aspect of training stress. It can actually be a poor representation, and an underestimation, of training stress.
Supplement Timing
As runners, we put a lot of stress on our body in many ways – physically, mentally, emotionally…you name it! Unfortunately, this tends to result in injuries. And bone stress injuries are always close to the top of that list. A recent study from the National Institutes of Health showed eumenorrheic female athletes have a spinal BMD of 5-15% below non-active individuals! With a lower BMD, runners tend to be at a greater risk for these bone stress injuries.
Does choosing your own effort make workouts more enjoyable?
While HIIT draws to mind burpees, jumping jacks, and push-ups, interval speedwork is also a HIIT workout. Endurance athletes have been doing HIIT workouts for ages; we just call it speedwork.
Running With Music
Do you run with music? We think of running with music as just a personal preference, but what if there were certain conditions in which running with music could improve your running to exhaustion time or help you forget about the environment you’re running in?
Good Posture For Efficient Running
Running isn’t all about the lower body. Yes, you run on your legs, but what about the upper body? What about your spine? Think about this for a second: if you hunch over or extend backward at your spine does your core work?