Improving running speed can be one of the most elusive and difficult skills to work on in sports. The problem is that once you improve running speed to a certain point, sometimes it seems to plateau. You can always work on kicking, passing, shooting, dribbling, or whatever other skills your sport needs, but sometimes it feels like you can not get any faster. Nevertheless, doing the right workouts to improve running speed really can make a difference even when you seem stuck. Read more…
Fall means sports for many children in school. In fact, they may have already begun to have practice for these fall sports, and that means they may be wearing the same shoes that they were wearing for the rest of the summer. Even if your children are not into sports in an organised manner, they may play them on the weekends, and they should have PE (physical education) while they are in school. That means finding the right youth running shoes for your kids. There are few things to keep in mind. Read more…
The endless rows of high-tech footwear that you’ll see at athletic accessories stores thatpromise to bring a world of corrective techniques to your running gait and make you comfy even as you run on the roughest terrain, can sometimes be too much of a good thing. Here is an introduction to the latest in running sneakers and what each type promises to do for you. Read more…
If you are an endurance athlete and your marathon running training seems to need that special edge, researchers in body mechanics say that there is an amazing miracle performance booster out there that won’t get you failing any drug tests. The miracle booster is the carbohydrate rinse. Athletes who need to really push themselves hard can get a dependable boost for rinsing their mouths out in sugar water or starchy water. If you are wondering how this works, read on. Read more…
The latest in the Asics GT 2000 line follows the Asics design code of delivering new models that develop on a solid previous model – eschewing dramatic developments for reliability and quality. It’s the old Asics motto of evolution over revolution. This design philosophy succeeds particularly well in the Asics GT 2150 women running shoes that feature their award-winning Gel cushioning system for the heel. If you’re kind of new to this, this is a design with two separate parts. One part protects your heel from the worst of the shock when it strikes the ground; as you attempt to transition to the middle of your stance the second part takes over to give your foot additional stability. The women’s version of the model allows more flexibility midsole than the men’s model – a concession made to the way women’s feet work. Read more…
ASICS is a company with a philosophy – as you would expect of an organization from Japan. The name is actually an acronym, which when expanded, reads in Latin, A sound mind in a sound body. In trail running, Asics is second to none. The company’s multipronged approach to the building of any shoe is perfectly matched to the complex needs of off-road running, and so, it is of little wonder that their trail running shoes find such acceptance. Let us look at three of the top pairs of ASICS trail running shoes to see how they have all the bases covered. Read more…
At the top of the stability-promoting Asics Gel Kayano running shoes range exists the 16s: running gear for the pronator that is jampacked with every fancy item of Asics technology in existence – ready to transform your running experience for the better at a top-of-the-range price. Most of the technology involved in the making of the Gel Kayano 16s see a lower key implementation in Asics’ highly successful in GT 2150. If you are a fan of that runaway success, the Gel Kayano 16 will work wonders for you – if your feet tend to toe out. Read more…
Fall means sports for many children in school. In fact, they may have already begun to have practice for these fall sports, and that means they may be wearing the same shoes that they were wearing for the rest of the summer. Even if your children are not into sports in an organised manner, they may play them on the weekends, and they should have PE (physical education) while they are in school. That means finding the right youth running shoes for your kids. There are few things to keep in mind. Read more…
You’ve probably noticed how the women often prefer women doctors; people who are obese, prefer doctors were either obese themselves, or have a reputation for empathy for fat people; could you count marathoners as a special group too? If they are a group with special needs, how much better would they feel if they got to consult with doctors who were marathon runners themselves? And more to the point, do they receive better treatment and a better outcome? Would an athlete involved in marathon running training who went to a doctor who was a marathon enthusiast himself actually see any difference in the way he was treated or diagnosed? There has really been no research that’s been done into this, and apparently no one knows.
But still, there is anecdotal evidence on the issue. There was a study done in Canada that polled about 4000 women doctors and found that it was the doctors who were at least somewhat involved in physical activities who felt comfortable giving advice to patients in exercise-related matters. They also found out that the physically active doctors had better, more useful words of advice for their patients. If the doctor is an athlete, he she is also more likely to not offer advice that is likely to irritate someone involved in marathon running training – such as to say that intense running like damages the knees, or that a person is not to be cleared for running unless he submits to a battery of tests.
For high school athlete Mark Ericson, his running season went great up until spring this year. His training for the past year was relentless and it seemed like it was paying off. Each day that he ran, he was shaving a hundredth of a second off his time. But not long after, at the beginning of spring track, everything seemed to go off-track. Each time he ran the thousand-meter course, he seemed to add about 5 seconds to his time. He seemed to be getting slower with each training round. His coach began to look deeper into the problem; the boy didn’t need any running tips – he was an expert himself. And yet, here he was getting slower by the day, irritable, his muscles numb all the time. His coach had read about something like this – it was called overtraining. It is the thing that every athlete dreads. Is there are a limit to how much you can train your body – is there a limit to how much you can push yourself?
Overtraining is something you’ll rarely read about in any list of running tips you come by. If it is rare, it is only because the kind of commitment it takes to reach a state of overtraining is something most people find to be too much. It is actually a real physical ailment. If you overstress your body for too long, it fights back. It fights back with aches and pains, tiredness and psychological detachment. As rare as the condition is, people are beginning to take notice of this, and it’s becoming somewhat a fashionable ailment to suffer from. These days, people read about overtraining in a section on running tips in the magazine, and the moment they have a problem with their performance, they begin to complain of overtraining.