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Introducing: Running Strength & Skills Online Workouts!
Categories: Articles, Classes, Core Corner, Health & Wellness, Running Resources
A perfect complement to our Monday morning Running Strength & Skills Class, our new online subscription program gives you access to ALL of our current and future running strength, skills, and educational programs for just $15 bucks a month!
Finding Your Running Flow
Categories: Articles, Brian Beatty's Blog, Functional Movement Concepts, Running Resources
These routines were inspired as a way to prepare for optimal performance in at a race event. Most of us could use something to smooth out the pre-race jitters, mental chatter, and taper tantrums.
Maximizing an Event Specific Training Plan
Categories: Articles, Brian Beatty's Blog, Running Resources
Goal events (Marathon, Half-Marathons and Ultras of all terrains) give us focus and motivation. We create specific run training programs for the event and put in the miles in a specific and thoughtful manner. Rarely does the same focus and preparation carry over into how we prepare our bodies for, and recover from, the training miles. However, the non-running (Supplemental Strength and Skills) part of a training plan can be critical for maximizing the benefit of the training.
Musings on the Cycling Core (our new online program!)
Categories: Articles, Core Corner, Cycling Resources, Fitness and Strength Exercises, Zanna's Blog
Our goal with this program is to give bicycle riders a super clear, cycling-specific understanding about the purpose of training your core in a focused, time-efficient way. We talk about concrete goals (i.e., minimizing hips rocking on the saddle, the ability to control your upper body and hips when climbing or sprinting, so you can put #alldemwatts to their intended use…) and we SHOW you how to achieve them.
Cramping: What Do We Know to Do?
Categories: Articles
Cramping is no fun, and the solutions are not as simple as managing hydration and electrolyte intake. Here’s an overview of what we know!
Developing a Body Checklist
Categories: Articles, Brian Beatty's Blog, Cycling Resources, Functional Movement Concepts, Running Resources
Raise your hand if you love a good checklist! The goal of the “Body Checklist” is to catch changes early and intervene. The unnoticed stiffness in the hip last weekend could be the thing that robs 45 seconds from your running pace in a couple weeks and sets up an awkward knee twist and injury next month!
“Progress to Tolerance” – What is Tolerance?
Categories: Articles, Brian Beatty's Blog, Health & Wellness
The meaning of the oft-repeated phrase in the rehab world: “Progress to Tolerance”
Running Gyroscopes: Finding Your Line
Categories: Articles, Brian Beatty's Blog, Cycling Resources, Running Resources
Going off road can be a refreshing and exhilarating experience, but it also challenging. In a previous post and the Endurance Magazine August 2016 Off Road issue we talked about the importance of being able to find and follow the line of the trails. In this article we explore finding the central line of your […]
Finding Your Line: On Trails and In Life
Categories: Articles, Cycling Resources, Running Resources
There are many things that draw us off road and nourish our individual needs. Life’s lessons can be refined and practiced with clarity as we move in nature. The variability of terrain can be both a challenge and an enjoyment. The roots, rocks, sticks that look like snakes but aren’t, rocks that are actually turtles […]