Fitness

Here’s what it’s like to work out with a personal trainer from the comfort of your own home without ever actually being in the same room.

5 Tips for Preventing Running Injuries I belong to several on-line running communities, and one thing that comes up in our chats quite often is what can we do towards preventing running injuries. Here are my tips.

As I returned to running I felt like a complete newbie, even though I knew what was around each corner. I knew how to dress in various kinds of weather. I knew I should stretch, eat well, get plenty of rest when training etc… But building my endurance and reintroducing myself to running was hard, but with these few tips in mind, I recently was able to train for and complete a 10 K race.

Three months ago I made the decision to see what would happen if I ran four times a week, these are my results.

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! I know for many of us (myself included) Valentine’s Day is a great excuse to eat too much chocolate, and to show our loved ones how much we care about them. Because I live way too far away from you to send you chocolate, I put together a special Valentine’s Day gift …

In this post I share with you some injury prevention tips and the 5 things I wish I knew when I started running.

Trail running tips…. I’ve always wanted to run a trail race: The mud, the hills, and the obstacles like rocks and tree roots are sure to beat the monotony of any road race! Besides, I love a good challenge: I’ve done road races of all kinds of distances, triathlons both short and mid-distance, and even an overnight relay… so what’s next??? A trail race of course!!!

You put on your running suit, tie your shoes as firmly as possible without causing your feet any pain, put on your stop-watch, and head out for a jog on a cold winter afternoon – or just straight to the gym and onto the treadmill if that’s your thing. After a 5-10 minute warm-up, you …

Last night I was brainstorming blog topics in order to put together an editorial calendar for the month of August. Then, as I reviewed my topic list, I realised I’m not likely the only healthy living/fitness blogger out there who struggles to come up with blog post ideas (am I?), and since I haven’t organised …

So on Sunday I ran the Sporting Life 10k and here it is Thursday and I haven’t ran yet. I did let my co-worker drag me to BodyPump class yesterday, but that’s pretty much the extent of my running. This leads me to ask: How much time do you allow yourself to recover after a …

The other day I walked through my office after a particularly hard tempo run to grab my backpack, and bring it to the showers so I could get cleaned up and dressed back into my office clothes. As I walked through I was embarrassed and aware that I my clothes stunk something awful (it might …

Hey gang \” go grab a pencil and paper Ëœcause I\’m going to help you plan your fitness success. This little exercise is easy as one, two, three …