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4 Reasons to Embrace Heart Rate training The beat goes on… I thought it would be appropriate to do a bit of explanation about heart rate training. I have thrown around phrases like ‘Zone 4’ and ‘max heart rate’ without really defining them or explaining why they are useful. Heart rate training is using your …
Anatomy of a Hill Repeat You’ll often hear people talking about hill workouts. It sounds like there is one, monolithic thing called a hill workout. There are many nuances to hill workouts. I’ll share one with you today and go a bit deeper so you can practice. This particular type of hill workout I’m going …
Running with a head cold What does the research say? As it turns out there is not much research on this subject. The research that has been done showed that there was no measurable difference in exercise ability between people with colds and a control group without the colds. There was also no difference in …
Politics and Egg Toss How to play politics proactively Politics in the office or the social environment is a game of power. You can say that you don’t engage in politics, but that is like saying you won’t play egg toss. If I want to play egg toss, you have to play egg toss. Otherwise …
A speed workout for change of pace I got asked by a non-running co-worker this week what the best workouts were to stay in shape? Was it the low effort aerobic stuff, like running and walking? Was it the high intensity stuff like crossfit? Was it the strength building stuff like weights? I paused for …
