Do you suffer from tight hamstrings or trouble engaging your glutes? Does your posterior chain need work? Here’s what you can do to increase the efficiency of you kinetic chain.

Hydration

How you step actually does impact injury prevention in running. OVERPRONATION One way your foot can move when you step is called...

Mastering the fundamentals

Warming up raises your heart rate, breathing rate and core temperature.

Time management is an essential skill to reach your goals. You're always going to wish for more time.

Bands help you correct any muscle imbalances and improve your muscles' activation. This means the movements you make while running are more efficient.

"Vert" is the elevation gain in a run/race, sometimes this involves altitude (like Leadville) and sometimes it doesn't.

Here's my "Best trick in the book" for anyone with twinges or full blown of Plantar Fasciitis, heel pain, calf pain, ankle soreness, tight hamstrings :

It’s pretty obvious we all love the trails and it’s no secret as to why. They are softer, more beautiful and way more fun than any road. But oftentimes we get sucked into the trap of only training on trails when there are lots of benefits to switching it up.

The Rate of Perceived Exertion measures the level of intensity of any physical activity. It corresponds to perceived exertion, it relies upon how hard you feel your body is working.

Strides are short bouts of faster running with recovery in between. These can be done at the end of a long or easy run.

ARE YOU QUAD DOMINANT ?

It’s your friend and your worst enemy, especially in the heat. This is a major culprit of GI distress. Too much sugar makes you feel sick...

Another friend easily turned foe. It’s a great way to pick you up throughout the night but much like sugar once you start you can’t stop....

Breakfast Peanut Butter Toast - Optional Add Honey Bananas Blueberries Avocado Toast - Optional Add Seasoning Salt Fried Egg Shelled...

MAGNESIUM SUPPLEMENTS

Endurance athletes can develop hyponatremia — an abnormally low level of sodium concentration.

Types are 3 main types of stress

So I posted briefly about the overstimulation of our sympathetic nervous system.