Daniel Lynch’s dedication to youth athletics fuels development of a sport-changing learning system. Read the full article for Illinois Alumni.
If your prerun warmup typically consists of jogging—or worse, nothing—here’s reason to step it up. Read the full article–and watch the video–for Runner’s World.
Use the injury-prediction calculator from the March issue of Runner’s World to determine your risk of getting hurt—then take proactive steps to lower it. (Bonus content: Hear my interview about this article, and others, on Coach Jay Johnson’s Run Faster podcast; download a pdf of the quiz to print; and see video demos of the strength training moves.)
Some runners think of foam rolling as a necessary evil at best, a tortuous experience at worst. Elite distance runner Chelsea Reilly Sodaro, however, views the 30 to 45 minutes she spends daily on rolling and other forms of self-therapy as a much-needed release from the stress and tension of hard training. Read the full article for Runner’s World.
Get off the pain-pill train by using one or more of these techniques—they’re safe and effective. Read the full article for Prevention.
For heel-strikers, speeding up may reduce risk of runner’s knee. Read the full article for Runner’s World.
Struggling with knee pain? For relief, consider aiming higher. Rehab routines that incorporate the hip—as opposed to the knee alone—appear to work better for combating runner’s knee, according to a new research review published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Read the full article for Runner’s World.
Tech CEO Dave Goldberg’s death highlights the rare but serious risks linked to fitness equipment. Read the full article for Runner’s World.
One minute, you feel invincible: You’re squatting heavy, tossing bags of mulch, helping the lovely passenger in 12D hoist her bag into the overhead compartment. The next, your back barks, leaving you hunched over. Researchers at the University of Sydney recently studied 1,000 patients to pinpoint some of the most common triggers of acute back pain—those sudden, sharp spasms that seemingly occur at any time and can leave you laid up for days. Read the full article for Men’s Health.
That quick catnap might not always work to make you less sleepy. But a new study suggests a surprising benefit of 30-minute snoozes on the sleep-deprived: less sensitivity to pain. Read the full article for Runner’s World.