Achilles Tendons - Out of Shape running is Better than No Running

This is a continuation of my 6 month follow-up post from an Achilles tendon tear last year. It’s now been one year. Things were going well until February this year. I had delayed getting into the strengthening I mentioned in that previous post… and it caught up with me. I strained a hamstring slightly in [...]

Youth Running: How can I help my teen runner get faster?

Here’s another question about youth running:
“I have a 15 year old son who has run cross country & track for the past 5 years. He does very well and is top ranked in his division. My concern is that he’s a small for his age; but his size never was an issue until now. He’s [...]

Youth Running: Keep it simple, varied and fun

A reader named Tracy with a 12 year-old son asks the following question:
I was wondering if you could pass along some advice for running with my son. He will be 12 in a week and I want to get him running with me a bit and then entered into some 5k runs over the summer. [...]

From Excuse to Motivation

Thanks to a comment on my previous post, I’m going to elaborate a bit about the excuse list and its ties to motivation.
The list was created over the years by groups I coach - specifically High Performance Running Club and RxRunning & Racing Club. And the last portion of excuses dates much further back to [...]

The Myth of “I don’t have the time”

The National Sporting Goods Association did a survey of inactive people (less than 25 days a year fitness activity) and active people (more than 150 days a year of fitness activity). The number one complaint of the inactive people was that they lacked sufficient time to workout. I know as a coach of both experienced and novice athletes, [...]