Eat well, stay healthy and keep running

Whether you are a beginner or an experienced runner, a balanced diet is not only important for keeping your body healthy, but it is crucial for improving overall performance. Regardless of how hard you are training, eating the right food to keep yourself well nourished is vital.One of the most important things you can do is feeding your body with foods that give you enough calories to replace ener...

What Should Be My Diet During Marathon Training?

There are so many aspects that go into marathon training. First off, there is the decision in making and choosing the right marathon course and season to participate in. Once you have decided where and when you will run, the ultimate commitment for the athlete comes from registering and paying for the race. Once the race has been committed to, next up is choosing the right marathon program and tra...

Signs of Iron Deficiency

Athletes and runners work and train several hours a week to put forward their best efforts when it comes to competing. Aside from intense training, often just daily life just makes us feel overwhelmed and tired when we have jobs and families to tend to as well. In fact, for many of us, we would attribute these feelings of fatigue as 'normal'. So one can appreciate that training, in combination wit...

Avoid These Overdoing it Mistakes! - Give It A Rest Once In A While

If you are an avid runner or training for a race, you might have a hard time telling yourself to sit it out once in a while. Those who hit the pavement even when their body is saying “No,” not only run a high risk of injury, they might be overtraining. And, overtraining can lead to a degradation of the immune system and predispose runners to frequent infections and injuries. If you are making thes...

Are Supplements A Good Supplement?

Runners are notorious for getting caught up in the runner’s high but don't forget your nutrition The very reason we love running may be the reason that we end up not taking care of ourselves the way that we should. Whether you are training for a marathon, a 5k, or any event, it is important that you maintain good health. If you don’t pay attention to how you are feeling and what your body needs, y...

5 Protein and Energy Boosting Recipes For After Your Run

Hard-work and dedication help a runner to achieve enjoyment in the sport as well as contribute to a competitive edge in developing strength and speed. With most marathon training programs there are often a couple of weekly high-intensity workouts in addition to a long run session. We all know recovery is essential in assisting with proper muscular repair. This includes stretching, foam rolling, ic...

10 Things You are Doing Wrong When Running

Running is a sport that comes naturally to most people. But that doesn’t mean that there aren’t things that you might be doing that are inadvertently keeping you from excelling when you hit the pavement. To enhance your performance, make sure to avoid these ten things that you might be doing wrong and not even know it!1 Forgetting to stretchThe debate has ragged on as long as competitive r...

Why Curcumin Can Be Your Secret Tool To Reduce Inflammation, But Only In This Form!

Some of the most significant reasons why you get stalled on your road to training for a race event are due to wear and tear stress and injuries. The best way to keep on, keeping on, is to know how to prevent injury and those little things that can physically slow you down. Curcumin is an excellent supplement to take for any athlete who wants to stay on track to race day and enhance their athletic ...

Lose Body Fat and Gain Lean Muscle Mass By Compressing Your Eating Time-Window

A recent study released in the Journal of Nutritional Sciences related to an experiment done in the UK poses some exciting information about limiting the window of time you eat during the day. Based on the findings, you can lose body fat and increase lean muscle mass even if you make no other changes besides shortening the time that you allow yourself to eat during the day.If you are running to lo...

The Five Best Supplements To Enhance Your Running Performance

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In The Heat Of Summer Give Yourself A Break, Both Mentally And Physically

Runners are a different breed. Kind of like “horse people,” they run to a different drum, literally. When other people see rain or hot weather they think, "What a good day to sit on the couch and watch television". Die hard runners think “Water and sweat!”. As you get older, as hard as it is to accept, those little hurdles and obstacles that used to enhance the runner’s high and create an ...

How To Keep Getting Faster As You Get Older?

What every runner has always anticipated with fear is the day when they can no longer strap on their shoes and do their regular run. For some, it happens at the age of 30, while others age doesn’t seem ever to slow them down. So, what is the secret to continuing to run for a lifetime? There is a mixed science about how age affects a runner. Some of it is antidotal, and some of it is real. What sci...

Nutrition and diet for male marathoners

Treat Your Body Well And It Will Do The Same If you have committed to running a marathon, you know that it is no small commitment to make. Training for a marathon takes persistence, drive, and above all, the ability to push yourself when you would rather just sit on the couch. If you want your body to help you by staying active and healthy, you have to help it. When increasing the mileage you run...

Female marathon runners' nutrition

Eat More Will You? A Guide To Marathon Nutrition For Women Runners I am going to tell you something you aren’t going to like very much; you have to eat more. As women, we are often trained that less is more when it comes to what we put in our mouths. Unfortunately, many women hit the pavements to either lose weight, or to maintain it by collecting miles. If you are going from causal runner to mar...

Selecting the right marathon apparel and gears

If you are heading out on the trail, the same holds true for running then everything else in life, have a plan. There is nothing that can squelch the pleasure of putting feet to pavement more than getting half way in the run and having an outfit malfunction, or not being prepared for something that comes your way. There are certain things that you can plan for, and then there are those you can’t. ...

Marathon training with less injuries

Starting Slow And Building The mistake that most of us make when starting a new venture is that we go all out. We get excited about something and, instead of being methodical and taking the time needed, we rush into it head first. It is important when you make any new commitment to put your heart into it, but you must also put your head into it. If you have decided that you are ready to begin...

Male Ultra Marathon legends

Those Who Inspire, Awe-Strike Us, And Tire Us Just Thinking About Their Amazing FeatsA marathon is something that only elite athletes can dream of competing in. To cross the finish line after traveling 26.2 miles puts even the slowest of runners in a very distinguished category. An ultra marathon, gaining traction for those who aren’t satiated enough with the grueling 20 some miles, is something t...

Marathon race Nutrition

Nutrition For Race Day… Stick To What You KnowIn Psychology, there is something called state-dependent learning. It is the theory that whatever you do while you are learning something if being tested, you should follow the same routine and do the same things. The same is true for the day of the big race. Whatever it is that you eat before your long run training days, is what you should eat the day...