Running articles to help you move better.
If you want to live a healthy lifestyle and train, I think it’s really important to have a general understanding of how muscles work. I don’t mean memorizing textbooks of muscle names and functions – I mean, how do muscles work in general? What is a muscle made of, and when I contract it, what […]
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Block Periodization is becoming more popular in programming for endurance athletes. It refers to the sequencing of specialized blocks of mesocycles* directed at developing a particular aspect of fitness or performance. Macrocycle: refers to a full season of training, typically 1 year. Mesocycle: refers to blocks of training within the macrocycle, usually weeks of months.
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There is a clear relation between what you are thinking and what you are doing – your mental-self influences your physical-self and vice versa; your psyche influences your physiology and vice versa. Here’s a little story… You’re playing golf and you walk up to your ball to make a long put. You ask your friends
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Inspired by the teachings in ‘The Brave Athlete: Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion’ by Simon Marshall, PhD & Lesley Paterson I just ran the worst 10k race of my life, and I’m okay with it. I am in the process of rebuilding my athletic identity. My athletic identity is how I
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Effective training is a careful balancing act over the long haul. A balance of training and recovering, to maximize performance and avoid overtraining or undertraining. We have to remember that each workout is weighted differently, and the point of “balance” is always changing. How do you train hard without overtraining? How do you recover without
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THE CHALLENGE: The La Cloche Silhouette Trail is an epic 78 km backpacking trail in Killarney Provincial Park that runs through the 2.3 billion-year-old La Cloche Mountain range. At one time its peaks were taller than the Rocky Mountains. Years of erosion from wind, water, and frosts have caused these once massive cliffs to transform
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Men and women have roughly the same core body temperature (37C), so why are my hands and feet freezing while I am burning up and my partner is lying in bed comfortably? If we really are all the same temperature on the inside, why does dual zone climate control even exist? Popsicle toes explained: Our
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