When you think about doing hill workouts, what image comes to mind?
If you’re like a lot of runners, hill repeats are the end all be all.
Now, I’m not saying hill repeats are bad.
They’re not.
But what I am saying is that if the only hill workout you find yourself doing is a sprint up and recovery back down, you’re missing out. Read more
As you may remember, if you’ve been around these parts for awhile, I got a new guitar for Christmas a couple of years ago.
Up until that point? I’d never owned a guitar and had only dabbled on the guitars of friends a handful of times over the years.
To say I couldn’t play the guitar at all was not an understatement.
I’d always wanted to learn to play the guitar, specifically how to play Dave Matthews songs on the guitar.
So I took the plunge, bought myself a starter guitar, and dove in. Read more
My guest on the show today is a guy that is pretty much all in on all things endurance.
He has competed in events that I didn’t even know existed.
Nate Loman
I am looking forward to going a few easy miles with Nate Loman and learning a thing or two. Read more
For even the most dedicated of runners, it is possible that over time running can become a bit stale.
Maybe running becomes a chore that “needs” to be done.
Maybe it’s something that you’re expected to do by others.
There are dozens of reasons running can become stale, but if/when it does, what can be done to make running fun again?
Kids Definitely Make Running Fun
Pretty safe to say that they are having fun.
I was having coffee recently with Nicole Welch from Rap with Nic.com, we started talking about our kids and the joy that kids have for running.
When kids are running, they don’t care about what other people are thinking. They don’t care about what they look like. They don’t care about anything.
They simply are fully present in the moment and are having a blast.
The joy is evident on their faces, and captured quite well in the above photo.
You simply can’t convince me that these kids aren’t having fun.
Just as their are many reasons that running can lose its luster, there are many ways that we can make it more fun again.
These are just a few of the ways you can change up your running in order to inject a little more variety (and fun) into your running routine.
But there are many others.
What do you do to make running fun when you find yourself in a running rut?
Leave a comment below, and let me know!
If you’ve been following along with any of my content for the past few years, you know that I’m a big believer in the benefits of strength training for runners.
More and more, it seems that runners are starting to come around to the idea of regular strength training, which is a good thing.
Yet many runners are still struggling with understanding what an effective strength training routine consists of, which is why I’ve done several videos in the past year demonstrating simple and effective routines designed specifically for runners.
One of the common threads in most of those videos from the past is that each of the exercises involves virtually no exercise equipment.
And that’s by design.
You do not need to to join a gym or buy any fancy strength training equipment for runners in order to get a challenging, effective, and beneficial workout.
That said…
You can combine the dozens of the equipment free strength training exercises that I’ve talked about before in an infinite amount of ways in order to keep your workouts from getting boring.
Shoot, I mix up the routine for almost every workout, just because I hate doing the same exercises ad nauseam.
Yet even with all of the possibilities that exist, you can get even more variety if you add just one or two pieces of equipment to the mix.