From the monthly archives:

April 2010

The Three Pillars of Exercise After-Burn

I’m a pretty thin guy.  When I’m doing my normal 60-70 miles per week, my weight fluctuates from 125 – 128 pounds.  This was my standard “summer weight” before collegiate cross-country and one of two indicators that I’m in good shape.  The other indicator is that my body considers a ten mile run a “recovery [...]

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Skip the Monthly Membership: Home Gym Exercises Made Easy

How many of us know that we should lift and have bought a gym membership in order to do our strength workouts?  After a month most people don’t go to the gym enough to make it worth it.  The average price of a gym membership is roughly $50 per month and that doesn’t factor in [...]

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Training Journal: March 15 – 28, 2010

These last two weeks were very productive blocks of training.  Unfortunately, it did not end well but a slightly premature end to this training cycle is just fine.  I had no races lined up and was focusing on aerobic development and strength.  Here we go.
Monday, 3/15
Lunge Matrix + leg swings, 66 min. + 6 x [...]

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How to Avoid Injury: Know Your Limitations When You’re Making Bad Decisions

In April of 2009 I started running again after about 6  months of inactivity.  I had a very bad illiotibial (IT) band injury that flared up about a week after the 2008 NY Marathon.  Since resurrecting my running career and learning so much about injury prevention and how to structure a high-quality training program, I [...]

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Can You Race a Fast 5k With Little Training?

I get questions all the time from runners and non-runners about how to hit a certain time or race well while only running a few days a week.  My favorite question came a few weeks ago: “I want to run a fast 5k but I hate running now.  How do I accomplish this with just [...]

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