I frequently get emails from readers with specific questions about problems they’re having with injuries, race strategies, or faster workouts. I don’t mind the questions – in fact, I encourage them. Email me with any of your training issues and I’ll be happy to reply. Many of you know that several months ago I launched [...]
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“Hills are speed work in disguise.” – Frank Shorter With a good hill, you can train almost perfectly. Hills build leg strength, increase your running economy (efficiency), prevent injuries, reduce impact forces on your legs, increase stride power, and improve the neuromuscular communication pathway. Excited to run more hills yet? If there was one training [...]
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When I’m traveling, I find it really hard to warm up properly before I go running. The drills I do, especially the iron cross and hurdle seat exchange dynamic stretches, take up a lot of space. Knocking over a coffee table is a real possibility when you’re swinging your legs back and forth with the [...]
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Running injuries don’t come easy to some people. I know runners who haven’t been hurt in years despite marathon training, 100+ mile weeks, and really hard workouts. There are other runners who manage to train for 5k’s and marathons with no aches and pains whatsoever. This tutorial is for the 25-50% of the running population [...]
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The Standard Warm-up is a dynamic flexibility and stretching routine that is done before you run. This series of light strength exercises and mobility drills help prepare your body to work harder. What I love about this routine is that it takes about 8 minutes once you learn the order of exercises. You can do [...]
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One of the best cross-training exercises for runners is pool running. It’s zero impact and has an extremely low risk of injury – making it a perfect supplemental form of training for a healthy runner and one of the best alternative exercises for injured runners. I spent a full two weeks in the pool doing [...]
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Runners are always looking for the newest way to prevent running injuries and help them train smarter. From compression socks, foam rollers, and even full leg compression sleeves (ridiculous, aren’t they?). Most of the products that you buy help you recover from hard training or treat running injuries. But I had an opportunity recently to [...]
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“Running is easy! Just put one foot in front of the other over and over again.” We’ve all heard it from our non-runner friends. And they couldn’t be more wrong. Running is a highly complex motion involving the entire body. If you lack the coordination, flexibility, and athleticism to run efficiently then you’re not going [...]
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The last major injury I had was a severe illiotibial band (IT Band) injury after the New York City Marathon in 2008. I took 9 days off from running after the race and then started to slowly run a little bit, only to have sharp pain on the outside of my left knee. I couldn’t run [...]
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Runners can be in great shape, but most of them aren’t very athletic. Two of the worst basketball players I’ve ever seen were three-season runners. Ask most runners to hurdle, dribble a soccer ball, or cut back and forth on a football field and you will see some of the most laughable movements. This is [...]
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I'm Jason Fitzgerald, a 2:39 marathoner and running coach. I want to help you get faster.
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