Sprint Training

For many people, running is a sport that comes with numerous benefits. Such benefits include cardiovascular conditioning, weight loss management, and mental wellbeing. From a competitive standpoint, whether against others or oneself, running also provides an outlet to perform with more efficiency and speed as you become stronger and faster. One way to improve your running speeds is with sprint tra...

How to Optimally Combine Strength Training and Running

To improve as a runner, going out regularly and often to pound the pavement is the best place to start. But because running is considered to be a high impact sport, strength training is seen as beneficial to help the muscles and joints respond well to the increased stresses that occur from running. However, for many of us, the question remains, how does one fit it all in? We have researched the an...

Running Buddy: Benefits of Running with Someone Else

Being the social creatures that we are, it would come as no surprise that having a running partner brings you a lot of benefits. However, during the current times, remember to always keep the social distance and take care of yourself and those around you.How to find a running buddy?While running alone has benefits like being able to fit a workout in during your own schedule, finding the right runn...

Morning Run or Night Run?

Running is a versatile sport in that it can be a way to manage stress, improve overall health, and can be a way to satisfy one's competitive edge. Running is also an activity that does not require much equipment and many love the sport for the ease of in which it can be done, practically anytime and anywhere. So when is the best time to run? Does running in the morning or evening differ in benefit...

Training Plans for Beginners and Short Distances

All runners had to start somewhere. While maybe elite runners have been performing a grade above all else since leaving the womb, the rest of us took to running as a new activity for a myriad of reasons. Maybe it began during the Covid-19 Pandemic and the only way to be outside was to start by exercising. Or maybe it was a health-kick way to start to lose weight. Or maybe it was in conjunction wit...

8 TIPS TO RUN IN THE RAIN

The rainy season is arriving and you cannot cope with the idea of becoming a victim of the treadmill? Although it is hard to take the first step in what is far from being the perfect weather conditions for training or racing, running in the rain can be rewarding and beneficial. Your body temperature rises while you are exercising and the warmer you get the more you have to sweat to maintain your b...

Brain Effects of the Runner's High

When it comes to running, people may be inclined to associate it with celebrity athletes, particular races, certain brands of trainers, or the fact that it is a good tool for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. But there is certainly much more associated with running. There is a science to running. Whether you look at the physics of kinesiology of the gait and movement patterns, to the physiologic an...

How to Keep a Positive Mindset During Long Distance Runs

Let us start out by taking a moment to calculate how many thoughts you create over a period of one hour, then consider how many you have in two, three, of four hours of your day? Probably a whole heck of a lot. Now imagine your thoughts over that period of time while you are performing your long-distance runs. If you had to estimate your emotional connections to these thoughts, one would hope the ...