Amanda Brooks's Blog, page 145
August 20, 2021
How To Tell If Running Shoes Fit Properly
One of the first pieces of gear we need to upgrade is our running shoes. We often start with whatever is available and quickly realize that the right, high quality, properly fitted running shoe is a game changer! Running shoes need to fit slightly different than your everyday casual shoe. We’re looking for a shoe …
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August 18, 2021
How to Take 10 Minutes Off Your Half Marathon Time
In a sport that can be measured in milliseconds, improving your half marathon time by 1 minute is a lot… and 10 minutes is an eternity. Most runners only see such huge time improvements when they first begin running and racing. At that point the body has plenty of room for big leaps and the …
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August 16, 2021
How to Become a Running Coach
I don’t have to tell you that running has become a popular sport and that so many of us who started out just wanting to run one race, now find ourselves years later wanting to spread the fun. Wanting to become a running coach and show others how to do it smarter, run faster and …
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August 14, 2021
Legs Feel Heavy While Running? Here’s Why
A mysterious disease seems to be sweeping through the running community and no matter how often I Google legs feel heavy while there’s no real diagnosis. I mean we know WebMD will always lead us down the path of a painful death, when you type in things like “sudden on set” and “otherwise healthy” + …
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August 13, 2021
Celebrating 40 with a Colorado Bucket List
In just a few hours, the sun will rise on my 40th birthday and let’s be honest, doesn’t a birthday like this inspire a must do Colorado adventure list?! For my 36th, I’ll threw back the covers in a warm Dublin hotel room, kissed that handsome man of mine, downed a slice of bread with …
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August 11, 2021
Lower Back Pain While Running
Running injuries are not required, but they do happen for a couple of very common reasons. One of which is tight muscles, the other is poor form and both could be causing lower back pain while running. Unfortunately, stats show over 31 million Americans experience lower back pain, which means it’s not unusual for runners …
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August 9, 2021
T25, P90X3, PiYo – Can it Improve Your Running? Complete 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 runs. What is Beachbody? Beachbody became a household name thanks to Tony Horton and P90X, but they have quickly and continuously built on that with …
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August 6, 2021
Why Your Workout is Causing Weight Gain
Nothing is more frustrating than stepping on the scale after consistently eating healthy and working out and gaining weight instead of losing. Worse yet, you’ve crushed your longest run ever, yet the following morning Grrrrrr the scale has risen!! WHAT THE F. If you’ve been working out but gaining weight, let’s talk about the culprits …
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August 4, 2021
What is RPE in Running?
Running is a sport that requires you to find the fine line between pushing yourself and not overdoing it. One of the ways we do this is by avoiding the grey zone in training through using RPE or Rate of Perceived Exertion. Distance running is different than other sports where there are often quick bouts …
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August 1, 2021
Resolve Tight IT Band Pain | Causes, Exercises, Stretches
8 miles in to my 16 mile run a slight burning around my knee turned in to a stabbing pain, that had me sitting on the sidewalk gulping back the tears. This was in the age before you took your cell phone everywhere or even Googled every injury to it was a tight IT Band. …
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