Your long run can only be as good as your recovery. Once your run ends the real work begins to ensure your body can recover quickly and healthily. By following these practical long run recovery tips, you will be back on the road, track, or trail in no time!
Not all training days are great! Learn how to notice progress in your fitness and overcome obstacles on the more difficult training days.
Race week is here. You’ve put a lot of time and effort into training, and now it’s time to see the results! Stay on track with these tips.
Whether training for an upcoming race or just training to improve your health, it’s important to follow a training schedule that includes rest days. Here are some answers to common questions about utilizing rest days for recovery when training.
Over-training is common in runners. It affects far more than your body’s ability to recover. Identify and combat the over-training syndrome.
Base building is a commonly used but rarely well defined term in running. Base training can be summed up as teaching your body to rely on fat for fuel at increasing paces.
Ready to improve your running speed? Even long-distance runners can get faster with these 5 ways to improve running speed.
Marathon race week comes after a long and dedicated training cycle. Follow these Do’s and Don’ts to not let your hard work go to waste.
The Rate of Perceived Effort Scale (RPE) is very useful in helping to determine if you are exercising at the intended intensity for a workout. Learn how to use this scale to maximize your training benefits from running.
If your goals are to get faster, run longer, build more muscle, or even to lose weight, you may want to consider adding stamina runs, tempo runs, speed runs and more to your training routine.