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Tips on How to Breathe While Running
There are a few tips on how to breathe while running that will help make your future miles a breeze, even if you’re running with a mask during the [...]
Heart Rate Zones
Heart rate training zones are calculated by taking into consideration your Maximum Heart Rate (HRmax) and your Resting Heart Rate (HRrest). Within each [...]
The Health Benefits of Running
Everyone knows regular exercise keeps you happy and healthy, inside and out. But why is it so good for you? Here's the science behind running and how it [...]
Strength Training – Progressive Overload
Progressive overload essentially means doing more work over time.
This principle is based on the concept that your body eventually adapts to the demands [...]
Importance of Run Duration
The great endurance coach Arthur Lydiard wrote, "Aerobic training at moderately high volumes is absolutely essential in developing the endurance athlete. [...]
Running Economy
In many sports, speed is an important attribute and ways to improve speed are constantly sought after. To improve speed, you need to increase stride length [...]
Warm-up/Cool down
Time spent on warming up and cooling down may help improve
an athlete's level of performance and accelerate the recovery process needed
before and after [...]
Recovery runs – Slow down to speed up
Occasionally slowing down your pace can actually make you run faster in the long-term. That means running at a pace that doesn’t tax your body. The most [...]