Category Archives: strength training
Know Your Weak Spots and Care For Them: All about strengthening your calf muscles and keeping your achilles tendons healthy
As I write this I’m icing my right calf muscle; the little bugger has been a bit cranky as of late so I’m being proactive and giving it a little TLC. Let’s be honest, a runner’s reality (or regular worker-outer) … Continue reading
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P90X: A Bit Overhyped and Do Runners Actually Do This Thing?
You too may be guilty of letting those annoying, yet oddly entrancing, informercials for the P90X training system run a little longer than you’d like to admit. Though, the same sort of effect does occur when the Shake Weight or … Continue reading
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Choose Your Own Adventure – Creating Your Own Weight and Strength Routine
Does anyone else remember those books? My favorite were the Goosebumps Choose Your Own Adventure. This one will be with a fitness twist, but we’ll get to that in a short bit. So I was reading about this Schwarzenegger 5k … Continue reading
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This Runnerchick Can’t Jump, BUT Plyometrics are Your Friend – Part I Bounds & Skips
I don’t jump. I can’t really, anything that I do would only qualify as a hop at best. In my one-time attempt at the high jump in junior high PE, I made the running start, I tried to clear the … Continue reading
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Beef Out Those Hummingbird Arms..It’s Good for You, I Promise
What day is it? My week is all helter skelter, yesterday I kept thinking it was still Sunday but then Bachelorette talk started storming Twitter so I knew it had to be a Monday. But I woke up today feeling … Continue reading
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