Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. A common issue that people experience either when running or as a result of running is lower back pain. Sometimes the pain is so intense that the severe lower back pain leaves them unable to walk. What many people mistake this pain for a back strain or injury, when …
Treadmills are a great option for running and will provide you with a sprinting option, however sprinting on a treadmill won’t provide as many benefits compared to sprinting on a solid surface such as grass or a track. Treadmills force you to use your entire body when running, which means your body will be moving …
Sprinting doesn’t build muscle. However, sprinting does condition your muscles. Sprinting is about developing speed. Speed is generated from the power that you can exert from your muscles. The more powerful and explosive your muscles are, the more distance you will cover when running, which will help you increase your average speed. To get more …
If you want to get fast quickly, you need to improve your explosiveness. And to do this, you need to develop power by conditioning your body with explosive speed workouts. You need to increase your stride length, and turnover speed in order to run faster. To increase your stride length, you must increase the horizontal …
This is more of a fitness related post. There are people that run long distances and have improved their cardiovascular strength and stamina so that they can run long distances. This is great for your health, but to condition your body for peak athletic performance, you need to progressively overload the muscles so that it …
I’ve mentioned in other posts how important it is to improve your cardiovascular endurance. To really maximize your speed endurance, you need to do intense training. This is fine, but it isn’t something that your body will be able to do everyday, which is why you need to train the body in a way that …
I’d mentioned in a previous post about the importance of developing your speed endurance to improve your average speed over a race. To improve your speed, you must be able to hold your technical form while you are running so that you can execute power with each stride for the duration of the race. When …
If you want to improve your running performance, you need to build your speed endurance. And the way that you will build your speed endurance is by running with more intensity for longer. To achieve this, you need to build up your cardiovascular strength, which means you need to be able to train your body …
Have you considered how much your speed endurance and running technique impact your running performance? Especially with sprinters that seem to accelerate towards the end of a race, they are actually slowing down at a rapid pace due to their muscles fatiguing. The only way to overcome this is to build your speed endurance. If …
There are a few ways you can make yourself run longer. However, in this post, we will focus on how you can run for longer with more intensity and at a faster pace. You likely want to run longer so you can run a faster time and break through any running distance plateaus. How can …