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Over-Training Symptoms How do you know if you’re working too hard? This is an interesting question. First, because overtraining can take a physical or mental form and is usually a little of both. Second, because how do you tell the difference between being tired – which is to be expected from training – and being …
Running Meditation An audio Experiment I have always considered running a mental activity that calms my mind and sorts out my challenges. Recently I have been reading about flow states and starting to dabble in meditation. I find that the universe as always is making a great effort to teach me something and connect the …
So you started running during the stay-at-home, what now? How to use exercise as a keystone habit. If the parade of humans passing by my window everyday over the last 6 weeks is any indicator, a lot of people have taken up running during the pandemic. Why not? You’re working from home. You don’t have …
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Plantar Fasciitis Part Three You’ve got it, now what? You have to be careful. There are a whole lot of ‘guaranteed cures’ out there on the internet. This is a very common running injury so everyone you meet will have some advice. Be careful. There are two things you need to absolutely burn into your …
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The Training Pyramid Talking about the constituent parts of a training campaign Jeff, my coach from PRSFit, posted this really good graphic that visually summarized the concept of periodicity in training. I’ve re-drawn the graphic here for reference. The basic summary of the pyramid of training is that when you are training for an event, …
