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Workouts for Runners

Summer Speed Workouts for Hot Weather Training

July 12, 2019

Summer Speed Workouts for Hot Weather Training

The high humidity and heat place extra demands on your body while running. Your body directs more blood flow to your skin in order to cool you, thus increasing your heart rate at any given pace. Running is harder in summer and your paces are often slower at the same effort level.  Workouts like continuous tempo runs or long intervals become more difficult in the summer. In these long efforts, your heart rate increases as the run progresses and your body works even harder to regulate your ...

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Stability Ball Core Workout for Runners

June 14, 2019

Stability Ball Core Workout: 5 Stability Exercises to Strengthen Your Core for Faster Running

 Most runners and coaches know that strength training is essential for runners. Strength training reduces injury risk, improves power output, and increases fatigue resistance. Core work is one aspect of strength training (although not the only aspect) - and certainly one of the most popular for runners. This stability ball core workout is one way to incorporate core work into your larger strength training regimen.  Core Work Inproves Your Stability Your core is composed of the ...

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How to Run Surges to Improve Leg Speed

May 24, 2019

How to Run Surges to Improve Leg Speed

Most running workouts aren’t flashy or glamorous. Oftentimes, the most effective workout looks deceptively simple or boring on paper. Surges are this type of running workout: not flashy, but certainly effective. This simple workout improves leg speed and running economy, making any runner a faster, more efficient athlete. Surges benefit all runners, from those preparing for the mile to even ultras. For competitive age-groupers, surges prepare you to pass others during the final miles of a ...

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Quick Injury Prevention Exercises for Runners

May 10, 2019

Quick Injury Prevention Exercises for Runners

All runners want to remain injury-free. Running injuries are painful, frustrating, and sometimes expensive. Thankfully, despite the high rates of runners injured each year, you can reduce your risk of injury with some simple injury prevention exercises for runners. An injury prevention workout focus on two effects: strength and mobility. Weak muscles are more prone to injury, especially if the weakness results in a strength imbalance. Weakness in one glute causes excessive strain on ...

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Treadmill Incline Workouts for Runners

May 1, 2019

Treadmill Incline Workouts for Runners

Whether it’s snow, thunderstorms, or high heat that drives you inside, most runners inevitably run on the treadmill at some point in the year. And almost every runner has the same reaction: the treadmill is boring, even though it is beneficial for consistent training. Speedwork is one approach to making a treadmill run more engaging. But it is not the only option for beating boredom on the treadmill. Incline workouts add variety, improve muscle activation, and may actually make you a stronger ...

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