How important is proper rest and recovery to you?
How important is it to you to successfully reach, and potentially exceed, your running goals?
If you didn’t answer these two questions with basically the same answer, then you’ve got a problem. Read more
Any good training plan, and most bad training plans for that matter, will have at least one rest day per week.
Yet for many runners, the rest day is the hardest day of the week when it comes to sticking to the plan…
You understand what I’m saying there, right? Read more
If you’ve been running regularly for most of the year, you might be in desperate need of a break.
Taking a Break from Running
When it comes to taking a break from running, how do you know how much is good for you and how much is too much?
That’s a good question.
Somewhere a while back, I heard this rule of thumb about breaks, and I thought I’d share it as the final Quick Tip of 2015.
Because you see, I’m taking a bit of break during the next two weeks and only releasing posts/shows on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday for the rest of the year. But don’t worry, I’ll be back to normal the first week of 2016!
If you’ve ever had shin splints, you know that it’s a painful injury that can take FOREVER to completely go away.
In this week’s video, I’m continuing the shin splints series by talking about how to treat shin splints, especially for us runners.
Please be forewarned, you may not like what I have to say in the video, but if you want to kick your shin splints as fast as possible this is the best advice I can possibly give.
If you missed last week’s video, make sure you check it out because I talked about what causes shin splints and exactly what the injury is.
One of the most overlooked aspects of distance running is what you should do the week or so after a really long run.
After racing, there are a couple of standard answers.
There is the reverse taper technique, where you basically take the next 10-14 days and do the exact opposite that you did during your taper. Lots of stretching, and easy run here and there, hydrate like crazy, and after a couple of weeks you can get back to training for your next race.
Then there is the idea (that I think is bullocks, by the way) that you should take the same number of days off after a race as the number of miles run. So for a half, you take 13 days off. For a full, 26.
No way.
I’ll take a few days off after a full, but I’m not taking almost 4 weeks off.
So I guess, almost by default, that makes me much more of a reverse taper guy. And I’m ok with that.
But what do you do after a long run (maybe your longest ever) during your training for a race? Read more