Category: Strength Training
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A couple weeks ago I took my third crack at this notoriously difficult half marathon course. It was the ninth half marathon I’ve raced (darn it, I really thought I was in the double digits by now) and this time around I was not pleased with my performance. I’ll write a bit more about that…
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What I see when London participates in sports is a mind that wants to go faster, a face that believes in her ability, but a body that isn’t quite there yet. It’s a real thing that some studies suggest 50% of autistic children deal with and it is called hypotonia (low muscle tone). Autism Parenting…
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It’s race week! Time to panic, I mean, spend all week trying not to panic about the upcoming race even though I’ve spent the last three months gearing up for it, which, this year, is a big one––the Horsetooth Half Marathon. If you know anything about this race, you know its distance isn’t really the…
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Trail running. I have always loved it. One might think that living in Denver for 15 years provided a lot of trail running opportunities. Well, if that’s the case, you just don’t know Denver. It is a shockingly flat city and spread out. Omaha has more undulation and hills than metro Denver. Truly. I have…
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When I look at my map on CityStrides, I see progress, hours of running, thousands of miles, and quite a bit of time spent mapping out a six mile run, ensuring that I spend as much of those six miles on brand new blocks. The thing that irritates me more than anything though are whole…
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Advice, strategies, and thoughts on 1000 pushups in a week: Anytime you think of them, drop and do 10. Do you know that 1000 pushups a week is only 142.86 pushups a day? Most of us are up for well over 12 hours a day. That’s only 11.9 pushups per hour! Totally possible! My pushup…