What Running Gear Do Beginners Need?
All it takes is a few simple items to build a basic running wardrobe from the ground up. Let’s face it: Running is a fairly low-tech activity. You don’t need complicated machines or heavy equipment, just you and your legs, and some ground to cover. In fact, the only gear a runner really requires is [...]
The Best Running Gear For Beginners
Don’t let an equipment shortage keep you from running for fun. One of the advantages running has over other activities is the equipment it takes to get started: not much. In fact, the first couple of times you try it, you don’t even need running shoes. Here’s the essential gear you need to get started or to [...]
The Physical Benefits Of Running Daily
Running has many addicts, and the reasons are obvious: It’s an activity that can be done in any location, in any weather, at virtually no cost. What’s more, the exercise benefits are enormous. Physical benefits: Running burns calories like almost nothing else. It improves cardiovascular and muscular endurance, especially in the quadriceps, hamstrings and gluteus [...]
Hill Training Workouts For Runners
Believe it or not one of the finest training tools isn’t found in the gym or on a track, requires no membership fee and is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Whether mountains or molehills, to increase your leg power and your performance head to the hills. Benefits Even if you compete [...]
Distance Running Tips From The Kenyans
Anyone who follows international distance running is quite aware that the runners from Kenya are among the best in the world. Parker Morse, a young employee with Runner’s World magazine, was visiting Kenya and went for a 46 minute run with five Kenyans. He listed some of the things he observed and learned from them [...]
How Long Do Running Shoes Last?
How many miles should you take off a shoe before you retire them? To speak in terms of mileage is a little difficult because there are so many variables. For example, what do you weigh, what are your bio-mechanics like, what surfaces do you normally train on, what shoes do you have, etc. However, there [...]
Running Tips And Techniques For Beginners
Improve your running performance through proper form, technique and targeted muscle training. Train your runner’s muscles in specialized sequences, angles, and ranges of motion. Exercises to train these muscles and runner’s tips from award-winning triathlete, Ray Browning will enable you to enhance your strength and overall endurance. Running Tips There are three phases to ensure [...]
Weight Lifting Workouts For Runners
Five fundamentals form the core of our approach to fitness and weight training for runners. Breathing deeply and rhythmically will provide a consistent flow of oxygen to your working body, allowing you to perform to your full potential. Concentrate on filling the lower and mid-rib cage as you inhale through the nose, and then actively [...]
