As a runner, you want to have strong legs and lots of endurance. Here’s a whole-body resistance band workout that can help improve your running performance and improve your flexibility and balance. Continue Reading →
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What A Strength And Conditioning Coach Can Do For An Athlete
In the modern age, athletes cannot afford to solely rely on their natural ability for success. Ensuring that they are in tip-top fitness is vitally important. Many athletes who have brilliant natural ability but who lack fitness or work ethic end up not achieving their true potential. Continue Reading →
Recover with Sleep and Nutrition
Running is one of the best things you can do for your body. It’s an exercise that practically anyone can do, anywhere, anytime. However, it needs to be accompanied with proper sleep and nutrition, otherwise, you can run into problems like sore muscles and injuries. Continue Reading →
Still Running with My Dad After 40+ Years
Today, March 11th, 2020, my dad, Adolfo Salgueiro, Sr. is turning 82 years old.
He is still running 3-4 times a week and competing in local 5K.
The experienced runner and running coach that I am today would have not been possible without his inspiration and encouragement to get started over 40 years ago.
4 Great Ways to Stay Active While You’re Stuck Inside
Being in voluntary self-isolation or a mandated lockdown is never fun. Not only does it quickly get boring, but unless you have a full gym setup in your home, it presents serious challenges for maintaining your physical health. That doesn’t mean that you can’t remain active while you’re stuck inside, though. Here are 4 ways of doing just that. Continue Reading →
Runners and Bone Health: 4 Things You Need to Know
While running is incredibly good for us, and for many it is a fantastic way to let off steam and get fit, did you know that it can influence our bone health? If you enjoy running either leisurely or in marathons, you need to know these four things to ensure you keep the best care of your bones while running. Continue Reading →
Should I Go To An Urgent Care For My Running Injuries?
Running as a form of exercise is a great way to maintain a healthy weight and keep your cardiovascular system in great shape. Unfortunately, running can be hard on your body- especially your shins, knees, and ankles. If you are someone who runs quite often, you may eventually encounter a running injury. Instead of going to an emergency room if this injury occurs, you should consider visiting an urgent care center instead. Continue Reading →
How Running Helps Your Health
If you often engage in sports activities, you’ve most certainly enjoyed their health benefits. If you haven’t been that much of a sports person, though, the many benefits they trigger might make you reconsider your schedule and squeeze in some running, fitness, or tennis sessions. From the way you feel to the way your body looks, sports activities impact your physical and mental health positively and do so in various ways.
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How You Can Unlock Your Hip Flexors
The hip flexor muscles join your lower back and your upper thighs with the role of flexing the hip. They are a group of muscles that coordinate to facilitate leg movement and generally very strong and can stiffen from prolonged sitting. Undertaking hip flexor activities helps to give you a better stance and improves your adaptability.
Having frail or tight hip flexors can give you a terrible stance. Therefore, it is important to find ways in which you can unlock your hip flexors. Fortunately, we have a few tips on how you can achieve this as discussed below. Continue Reading →
9 Reasons Why Running Barefoot Is Good For you
Barefoot running is defined as running without shoes. In the past, people don’t wear any shoes and walk barefoot. But in modern times different kinds of footwear are made and used for different occasions. It is uncommon to see people without any footwear, especially if their running. But no one can deny the joy it brings every time you walk in your lawn or on the shore. The feeling of how the surface of the earth touches your feet with every step gives you warmth. Continue Reading →
5 Hacks for Getting More from Your Run
Running is one of the best ways to engage in physical exercise and on the surface of it, what could be easier? When you begin to examine the art of running, there is a lot more to it than it seems.
We’ve compiled this quick guide to five of the things any runner can do to get more from their run and see better results while improving their endurance and stamina. Continue Reading →
Miscellaneous Fueling Questions Answered
Fueling is one of the great mysteries of long distance running. Whenever we gather questions from readers about nutrition we are guaranteed to get lots of great ones about fueling.
The following were sent in by subscribers to the MTA Newsletter. We had help from the amazing nutritionists at MetPro in answering the questions that follow. Continue Reading →