Jason Fitzgerald, Author at Strength Running

3 Essential Ingredients in Every (Good) 10k Training Plan

Posted June 9, 2016
BY Jason Fitzgerald

The 10k is like the 5k’s ugly step-sister: it’s often used as a tune-up race, but rarely do runners focus on 10k training exclusively.

Why? Why is the 10k ignored as a goal race and usually earmarked as just …

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Q&A with a Registered Dietitian: Why am I not losing weight?

Posted June 6, 2016
BY Jason Fitzgerald

Have you ever gone to the grocery store when you were absolutely famished?

It’s a terrible idea – you end up buying WAY more food than you intended and much of that food is junk.

And I’m the …

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5 Foundational Lessons I Learned from High School Track

Posted June 1, 2016
BY Jason Fitzgerald

Can you believe that I used to loathe running?

It’s true – in middle school PE, I avoided all of the running events during Track & Field week by throwing the shotput.

Less than a year later, I was …

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Running isn’t hard (it just takes awhile to learn)

Posted May 26, 2016
BY Jason Fitzgerald

A few months ago, my wife and I took a beginner’s swing dancing class that met every week for five weeks. It was a disaster.

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How Hollie Smashed Her Already Competitive Half Marathon PR

Posted May 23, 2016
BY Jason Fitzgerald

How do some runners race so fast? What makes them capable of achieving such blistering finish times?

Today, we’re doing something a little bit different. While it’s paramount to your success to love running, be consistent, and plan smart …

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4 Professional Runners Answer: “Why do you love running?”

Posted May 18, 2016
BY Jason Fitzgerald

Running captured my heart in 1998 – and I’ve been running nearly every day since I tied my first pair of running shoes.

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Can you help this runner who’s getting slower during marathon training?

Posted May 12, 2016
BY Jason Fitzgerald

Anybody who’s training for a marathon knows how difficult it can be: the long runs never end, the mileage keeps creeping up, and those tempo runs are grueling!

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3 Counterintuitive Ways to Eat Healthy (the easy way)

Posted May 9, 2016
BY Jason Fitzgerald

You just ran a local 5k and you’re at brunch with friends, talking about how you’re training has went over the last few weeks.

Inevitably, somebody complains about their weight or not eating right. Let me know if any …

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Should you taper before a tune-up race during marathon training?

Posted May 3, 2016
BY Jason Fitzgerald

We all know that tapering before a goal race is important to perform at your best. But should you taper before a tune-up race?

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In Defense of Specialization: How CrossFit Gets it Wrong (again)

Posted April 28, 2016
BY Jason Fitzgerald

I. Am. Fired. Up. CrossFit has – yet again – got my blood boiling with their utter nonsense.

As you probably know, I don’t think CrossFit is smart training (for anybody, not just runners). It’s simply hard exercise for …

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