All things training. Mostly advice and tips but maybe questions, general comments, or who knows what else.
When you’re in hard training, do you ever get to the point where you’re just dragging? You’re dead tired and nothing you do can get you feeling good again?
While sometimes we need to work through fatigue in order to come out the other end stronger, we also need to be careful to not get too deep into this fatigue tunnel. This is why I believe most runners would benefit from cutback weeks.
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Do this one simple thing and you’ll run 30 seconds per mile faster, be guaranteed to not get injured and lose weight in the process!
It’s all over social media. Hacks to lose weight, hacks to run faster or injury free, hacks to do anything you want at levels that seem impossible.
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What an Olympics it was! I hope you were able to enjoy it, I know I managed to watch almost the entire track and field program and it was fantastic!
Are you feeling inspired by watching the Olympians perform their amazing feats? Feeling fired up and ready to step up your training?
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We all (hopefully) know that both your hard workouts and your easy runs/rest matter. The hard days are the stimulus for improvement but recovery is when the improvements happen so you need to make sure you’re recovering adequately. Not to mention, if you don’t recover adequately, you’ll eventually break down and either get burned out or injured.
But what classifies as rest? Well, that’s a difficult question.
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As this posts, I’m preparing for what should be a very fun trip.
That’s right, it’s vacation time for me! Don’t worry, I brought my running gear.
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