Tips to Survive Your ’9 to 5′ and Beyond……
The Perils of Modern Living Chances are you are reading this while sitting in some sort of chair. You, like most of the modern day population, spend your day in a chair. Our jobs and careers require us to sit most of the day in front of computer screens, and the daily demands of our life often keeps us from any kind of beneficial physical movement. But we are not designed to be in chairs. We are designed to move. To squat, bend, push, pull, lunge, twist, walk and run. Yet from the age of six on, we are confined to this man-made prison....
read moreHow to Maintain and Complete Your New Year’s Resolutions
The new year is here! As one year bows out and a new one comes in, we’re prompted to reflect on our lives and what we would like to achieve or change in the new year. I often hear the phrase “new year, new you,” but sadly the vast majority of people fail to capitalize on this reflective phase of their life. The wishes of a New Year’s resolution inevitably fall back to normal routines and all remains the same. “New year, same you”. Why do so many people that “resolve” to make changes in their life fail? We start with good...
read moreMy Marathon is Over, Now What? Keys to a Fantastic Off-Season
Chicago, Atlantic City, Marine Core, ING Hartford, Philadelphia, and the Granddaddy of them all, the ING New York City Marathon… Some of the more popular fall marathon events in the northeast. If youʼve run and completed one of these races, congratulations! Having run seven marathons myself, and considering signing up for my eighth, I understand how much preparation goes into an event of this magnitude. Some of you may you have trained all year for this marathon, or at the very least, the last four months.You shared your glory with...
read moreRecovery & Regeneration: A Runner’s Secret Weapon
Fall in the Northeast is the time for half and whole marathons: The Philadelphia Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon on September 18th, Hamptons Half on September 24th, Grete’s Great Gallop on October 1, Chicago Marathon on October 9th, and the grandaddy of them all-The ING New York City Marathon on November 6th, 2011. A typical training program for events like these can be 12-16 weeks in length and while all training programs advise you how often to run (frequency), how far to run (distance), and how fast to run (pace), most do not tell...
read moreDriving You Foward
Running is one of the greatest types of exercise available to most of us. It has one of the lowest equipment needs of any sport. You really only need a pair of running shoes, a t-shirt and a pair of shorts. Right? What is running anyway? You could simply define running as the act of putting one foot in front of the other…. But as runners do you know how this happens bio-mechanically? What muscles get you from step to step, from point A to point B? From the Starting Line to the Finish Line What drives you forward are your hips. The...
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