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Training

The Road To Aerobic Improvement

by pribut on August 12, 2009

The road to improvement, like any journey begins with your first steps.  And it really happens by examining your last few steps. You have to know where you are to know what you have to do next to improve. Slow, gentle beginnings and graduated additions to that will get you in shape and prepared to [...]

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7 Habits of Highly Effective Stretchers

by pribut on June 24, 2009

For Runners:

Remember that stretching is not a warm up.
Don’t stretch before you’ve moved. Warm up gently first with movement and slow running with short strides. There is no evidence that stretching before exercise is helpful to prevent injury, but it might be useful at the end of a run. Specific injuries or susceptibility to specific [...]

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Hills Instead of Pills

by pribut on June 6, 2009

Running hills has been used for many years as an intermediate step in building strength and endurance on the way to speed work and later racing. Arthur Lydiard included hills as an integral part of his training program.
Long distance training came first. Hills followed. And later speed work was undertaken before peeking for the racing [...]

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