by lockhartbecca@gmail.com | Oct 4, 2022 | Running, Strength
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...
by lockhartbecca@gmail.com | Sep 20, 2022 | Running
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...
by lockhartbecca@gmail.com | Sep 7, 2022 | Running
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...
by lockhartbecca@gmail.com | Aug 9, 2022 | Running
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...
by lockhartbecca@gmail.com | Jul 26, 2022 | Running
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...
by lockhartbecca@gmail.com | Feb 21, 2022 | Running
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...
