It’s just one workout
These things happen to all of us. I hope we are all trying to minimize these occurrences but it’s almost inevitable that a whole training cycle is not going to go perfectly as planned. …
If you can’t be great, be good
Late last year, I was listening to an episode of the On Coaching podcast with Steve Magness and Jon Marcus in which they interviewed Mike Smith, whose men’s team at Northern Arizona University had just won the NCAA Cross Country Championship.
In the interview, one quote especially stood out to me: “If you can’t be great, be good.” …
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Focus on the fundamentals
Do you ever find yourself looking at the workouts the pros do and thinking about whether you should do them?
It used to be hard to do this. We’d have to get a book like Running With the Legends. Now, you can just browse Twitter or Instagram and see all kinds of workouts.
These are fun to look at but is it really useful to look at them?
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Monthly roundup: December 2017
Another month, another large number of articles read. A couple especially that caught my eye were a comparison between fresh, frozen, and canned vegetables and the benefits of lifting weights, not just for your running but for your health in general.
Is there a difference between fresh, frozen, and canned vegetables? Well, yes but not quite what you would expect. In the end, the best thing you can do is eat whatever will get you eating the most vegetables.
We know pollution is bad for us. We know exercising is good for us. So what has the bigger impact? Well, don’t let pollution stop you from exercising. Sure, avoiding pollution while exercising is ideal but exercising in pollution is better than not exercising at all.
We’re runners. We know that running can prolong our lives, right? Well, do you know that strength training can also prolong your life? For the record, size (muscle mass) doesn’t matter. Strength matters. Based on the numbers, it almost looks like being small but strong is actually better than being big and strong (though the most important thing is being strong and the difference between the small/strong and big/strong might fall within the margin of error).
Looking back on 2017 and forward to 2018 at HillRunner.com
While the first half of 2017 at HillRunner.com was pretty quiet, the second half was anything but. As usual, I’d like to take a moment to look back at 2017 at HillRunner.com and look forward to what, as of now, are my goals for HillRunner.com in 2018. …
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