Category: Running

This post may contain affiliate links. Please read the disclaimer for more info. About a year and a half ago at this point, I suffered a major injury to my left foot/heel that, unbeknownst to me, would expose many frailties in my body that were waiting to come to the surface.  I smashed my heel…

This post may contain affiliate links. Please read the disclaimer for more info. Barefoot and Minimalist style shoes have seen a recent upturn in popularity across the internet. I can now see people searching specifically for them instead of just coming across them like I did a while ago. But what’s the catch? Why are…

The first thing you’ll want to do is remove your shoes so you are barefoot. It’s important in general and in this exercise specifically for the nerves in your feet to be able to feel and respond to the ground they are on. To demonstrate this importance, you can walk around on a hard surface…

Running stride length is something that most people will recommend you try to INCREASE if you want to run quicker or improve your long distance times. It seems like a no-brainer that if you take really long strides, you’ll probably get to your destination sooner and having taken less steps, maybe more efficiently. I’m going…

This post may contain affiliate links. Please read the disclaimer for more info. Tight muscles are something that affect most people on a daily basis, whether or not they even know it. Many of our physical limitations or sources of pain are simply caused by tension in our bodies that we haven’t properly addressed yet.…

Flexibility appears to be an often neglected area of health. Many people I have encountered have passed off flexibility as something only yogis or gymnasts have and the rest of us will always wonder what that must feel like to be limber. While I was still practicing taekwondo, some of my friends were impressed that…

Developing routines can be difficult at the beginning of any process. It certainly requires some goals or motivating factors to get you to commit to the new habit change. There’s also a degree of learning to move past some of the roadblocks that get in your way throughout this journey. It’s important to understand that…