Every human being has a comfort zone in various areas of your life. Your comfort zone could be staying home on a Friday night vs. going out to a bar or party. Or vice versa. Your comfort zone could be always ordering the same thing at your favorite restaurant and...

I think it's safe to say that everyone starts running for a reason.   For many of us, that reason is aesthetic. Maybe you're trying to lose weight or you want your body to look a certain way. And you've heard that running burns fat so you take it up.   Great...

A recovery week is a down week of training, meaning we decrease overall volume and remove intensity for a week. These are necessary to allow our bodies to fully recover from the load of our training. Training puts stress on the body, especially if we are in a race...

As a runner, I'm sure you hear all the time how important strength training is. It makes us stronger, faster, and more resilient runners - decreasing our chance of injury and improving overall performance. But what are the most important things to be hitting during...

Let's talk about marathon training and what weekly volume you can expect to be hitting during a training cycle.   Weekly Volume   First, let us define weekly volume. Your weekly volume is the number of miles or the amount of time spent training each week....

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...

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 knowledge? It...

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 it's not great to...

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 first,...

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 August of...