Are You Leaving Gains on the Track?

Are You Leaving Gains on the Track?

Today I want to talk about speed work. But not the speed portion. The recovery portion of a speed workout. A speed workout is typically done in intervals. Think 400m repeats on a track. Or timed intervals like 2 min on, 2 min off. All of these various speed workouts...
How to Implement Polarized Training

How to Implement Polarized Training

We’ve talked a lot this month about polarized training and if you’ve been keeping up with the series, you probably know the benefits of polarized training and the downfalls of training mostly in the gray zone.  How do we now implement all this newfound...
How to Avoid the Dreaded Gray Zone

How to Avoid the Dreaded Gray Zone

Have you heard of the gray zone in running? If you’ve read some of my other blog posts like the one I just put out about polarized training, you might be familiar with the term. Let’s go a bit more in depth today about what the gray zone is and why...
What is Polarized Training?

What is Polarized Training?

Polarized training is one of the most common ways for runners to train.  Polarized means opposite so basically it means you do part of your training super easy and the other part hard, but don’t hang out in the middle. Runners need to develop two things. The...
She Achieved a 40-Minute Marathon PR!

She Achieved a 40-Minute Marathon PR!

No that’s not me in the photo. That’s my amazing client, Michelle! I wanted to feature her on the blog today because she just crushed her marathon back in December and she deserves a shout-out. I started training Michelle just for strength training back in...