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Cross Training

Glute Bridge Benefits: Single Leg, Bench, Best Variations

The glute bridge is a great exercise for butt and hip strength. See how to perform variations like single leg glute bridge for benefits and other variations.

Best Bodyweight Workout Moves for Runners: Complete Guide

Here's a complete guide to the best bodyweight workout for runners to help you build strength, improve running performance and prevent injuries.

10 Best Ankle Strengthening Exercises for Runners (A Visual Guide)

Ankle strengthening exercises help prevent many running injuries plantar fasciitis, Achilles tendonitis, and shin splints. Start now!

A Complete Beginner’s Guide to Progressive Overload Training

Progressive overload is the underlying principle of how the body gets stronger through weightlifting. Here's how you can use it to achieve muscle growth.

17 Go To Runner Strength Exercises

: These runner strength exercises are fully approved by a running coach and can be done anytime, anywhere to beat your excuses and still get you results.

Hip Extension: 7 Best Exercises, Benefits, Issues, and More

Hip extension is largely overlooked but it serves many benefits and can lead to issues when not addressed correctly. Learn it all including best exercises here.

The Best 30-Day Ab Challenge (Ideal for Men and Women)

If you’re looking for a solid 30-day ab challenge, then you’re in the right place. And you don’t need it to be Monday or even January 1st to start it!…

40 Best Strength Training Quotes

40 quotes that will give you an extra dose of motivation to make your gym workout happen. Strength training quotes you need to read.

Best Balance Boards For Standing Desks or Home Workouts

Want to increase your movement while working or challenge your core? These are the best balance boards for different needs and price range.

Does Muscle Weigh More Than Fat? Here’s the Real Answer

Does muscle weigh more than fat? Or is it the other way around? This has probably popped up in your mind at some point. Here's the real answer to this…

Upper Body Workout For Runners: 11 Key Exercises

Does upper body strength help runners? Yes! This article shares exactly why and teaches you 11 upper body workout moves that actually work!

Top 10 Hip Stability Exercises for Stronger Hip Muscles

Hip stability exercises can help reduce back pain, knee pain, hip pain, and prevent injuries. Learn why they're important + the 9 best exercises to try today.

Pilates for Runners: Why Do It and 7 Exercises to Try Today

Pilates for runners can be an incredible way to strengthen your core and hip stabilizers for injury-free runs! It uses small and controlled movements to target the core while simultaneously…

How to Get Abs to Show (10 Straightforward Tips to Follow)

Looking for more ways to clean up your eats and add moves to whittle your middle to finally see your abs? Checkout the ongoing 30-day ab challenge filled with workouts…

Resistance Band Workout For Hips And Glute Activation

You might think that I work only two parts of my body: my legs during running and my hips during PT because well that’s what I talk about a LOT,…

Top 10 Foot Strengthening Exercises For Runners

No matter how fit you are, weak feet can leave you injured. Foot strengthening exercises can improve arch, ankle, tendon and muscle strength. Let’s take a look at some exercises…

MOBO Board Review | Strength Training for your Feet

The MOBO Board is not just a circular piece of wood but a versatile tool that can be used to help prevent foot and ankle related injuries. As runners we…

13 Top Hip Strengthening Exercises Every Runner Should Be Doing

One of the most common causes of knee pain, ankle pain or IT Band pain is hip weakness from lack of strength or tightness shutting down muscles. That’s right hip…

Is Running with Weights Safe? (Benefits, Cautions, and Tips)

Does running with weights build muscle? Can it improve your speed or are you simply looking at a new way to injure yourself? Find out.

How to Balance CrossFit + Running (Plus 7 WODs for Runners!)

: Runners know they need to cross-train, but can CrossFit and running work well together? Learn 4 ways to balance it, plus 7 WODs for runners you can try today!

Yoga for Runners| Benefits + Top 5 Poses for Runners

As runners, yoga isn’t the first thing that pops into our minds when we consider all the different options out there. But a regular yoga practice can not only stretch…

Why Runners Need a Chiropractor and Why I Used to Avoid Them

A sports chiropractor can help much more than back pain. They help with muscle imbalances from IT band to hip adjustments for pain free running.

Active Stretching: What Is It and Why Runners Should Do It

Active stretching is about more than increased flexibility. Learn why it's different from other stretches and how to add it to your routine.

Aqua Jogging: Pool Running Workouts And Benefits

Aqua jogging is an excellent form of cross-training for runners. Here are benefits, gear you'll need, and sample workouts for training.

Herbs for Muscle Recovery, Growth and Strength

A few years ago, I was introduced to the idea of turmeric as an anti-inflammatory. It wasn’t my first dabbling with a supplement (hello protein powders, greens powder, essential oils),…

Does Running Give You Abs? A Complete Guide for All Runners

Does running give you abs? Find out how running affects your abs and how you can use it to meet your goals to get a stronger core.

3 Full Body Workouts For Runners

Cross training to build strength and power in your running are key. A full body workout for runners you can do anywhere will get you started!

Rowing vs Running: Which Workout is Better?

Rowing vs running: both exercises burn calories and build muscle, but is one better than the other? Find out the benefits and drawbacks of each one to see which one…

The Best Glute Activation Exercises to Maximize Your Runs

Are you suffering from tight hip flexors or lower back pain while running or right after a lower body workout? Do you struggle to feel your glutes ‘turn on’ while…

Can Yoga Replace Strength Training? Which Makes You Run Better?

Can yoga replace strength training? Yoga or weights? Weights or yoga? Which will make you a better runner? Are you better doing one than the other? Will one result in…

5 IT Band Stretches for Runners Based on Yoga

If there’s one injury that plagues running friends more than any other it’s the IT Band. I’ve talked here about the specific things I do to keep mine happy since…

Your Beachbody vs Peloton Overview: Which is Right for You?

If you’ve found that working out from home has lead you to fall in love with video led workouts then you might be debating Beachbody vs Peloton as two of…

30 Day Core Challenge | Abs, Glutes and Hips

30 Day Core Challenge | Abs, Glutes and Hips THE SECRET TO RUNNING INJURY FREE… is just 10 minutes a day. 4.8  (937 runners) Grab the course now before prices…

T25, P90X3, PiYo – Can it Improve Your Running? Beachbody Comparison

I love watching the Beachbody Program infomercials while I’m on the treadmill. Is that really weird? Yes? No…admit it. It’s weird, but we do weird things to survive long treadmill…

Snowshoeing for Beginners

Do you ski? A natural first question when someone finds out we moved to Denver. Nope. However, I’ve fallen in love with snowshoeing for beginners and that’s my way of…

Plank Benefits for Runners

Do planks make you run faster? I say this is debatable, but without a doubt working your core makes you a more injury proof runner. I DO NOT believe that…

Best Running Injury Prevention Exercises

Nearly every runner has been through an injury, which makes the average non-runner believe that you simply can’t enjoy this sport without hurting yourself. As though there are no running…

Loosen Your Hips to Lose the Belly

While researching stretching for runners, I learned a crazy fact that some stretches to lose lower belly fat are what we’re already doing in our workouts. It’s important to note…

Mobility vs Flexibility: Why You Need Both and a Workout

Mobility vs flexibility – they can seem like the same thing, which we think simply means spending time stretching. Nope. In fact, they are two different pieces of training that…

The Incredible Yoga-Running Connection: Improving Life Through Two Modalities

You can practice running or yoga for an hour every single day for a month, a week, a year or a lifetime and while your focus might be on the…

Stability Ball Workout: Full Core Focus for Stronger Running

If I asked you the last time you worked on your core, what would say? Maybe you’d remember a plank recently or hey some crunches as you waited for the…

Ultimate Running Knee Pain Treatment and Prevention Guide

When I took up running in 2002, the first thing I heard was “it’s bad for your knees“. At the time, I didn’t have any information to dispute that, but…

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