Done With The Run – Do I stretch? How Much? How Hard? Wasn’t this past weekend awesome? My family and I headed to one of the local greenways to soak in the warm sunshine. Since we go at toddler speed, we watch many weekend warriors go speeding by, enjoying...
Plantar Fasciitis – Part 2 – Treatment and recovery! Part 1 of two-part blog on plantar fasciitis (PF) covered risk factors and prevention. This blog will consider the various ways we can treat it, including a newly researched exercise that has...
Exercises for Hip Extension – 2 Strengthening As promised, it is time for our first gluteus maximus exercise post! Why is this so important? Check out my previous article on the power of hip extension in running to find out! Laying prone, you can extend the hip...
Exercises for Hip Extension – 1 A stretch? Well, I kind of lied in the last post. I said we would be looking at exercises for the major muscle that extends the hip, the gluteus maximus! However, before I do that ,there is one other exercise I should show you:...
The controversies of stretching, why, how, when? There are many types of stretching, and many ideas on what stretching is, as well as when and how it should be done. In this post, we are going to consider how stretching works and specifically when we should do two...