Category: Fitness
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Smile Your Way to a Personal Record
Recent studies have shed light on the fascinating connection between smiling and running, revealing the multifaceted ways in which a positive facial expression can translate into improved performances.
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Juicing for Recovery and Performance
My focus as a coach has always been recovery. I know that a good recovery leads to better training and thus better performance. Being a chef, diet and food have been a focal point of recovery. So when I hear of a food related, performance enhancer, my curiosity is put on high alert. Two…
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The Battle Cry to a Healthy Childhood
If you ask my children, one phrase that they heard from me, it’s “ get outside“. It has been ingrained in our family for 30 years and will continue to be so. We fell that encouraging children to spend time outside offers numerous benefits. It is key to their physical, mental and emotional well being…
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Are You Ready? Top 10 List for Training.
As you are starting to train for your next cross country season, racing season or fall marathon, you probably ask yourself, “Am I ready?”. After 4 decades of coaching I have found that the best way to answer that question is to make a list. In the spirit of David Letterman, here is my…
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Become a One Percenter: Can I Run a Marathon?Checklist.
Online running plans without coaching are like New Year’s resolutions, they usually do not last.
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Eating Against Colon Cancer
As we just left March, colon cancer awareness month, once again I will reiterate that diet has a large impact on colon health. As some of you know, I am a stage 4 colon cancer survivor. I do not know if diet was the reason n for my cancer, but I know that it will…
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Is Stretching a Bad Word for Runners?
Why is stretching a bad word in the running world today? I can remember, our high school track mentor, Coach Pierantozzi would stress the importance of flexibility and we needed to stretch, before our workouts. We would do a 30 count stretch; hurdle, toe touches, left right middle and so on. As I moved…
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Are we too conservative?: Our next kid’s first phone.
We are a little more conservative than most. We have set 15 1/2 years old as the time to give our child a smartphone. We have done this with our oldest who is now 30, so she got her first phone in 2007. I am sure several days later she got her first inappropriate text…
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Running: Healthy Mind/Healthy You.
Running, of course, has been found to have a number of benefits for both the mind and body. While many people might think of running as a purely physical activity, as it has been found over and over, running can have a profound impact on mental well-being as well. A study at the University of…
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Turn Sibling Rivalry into Sibling Fandom
With six active children, we have attended a lot of events, soccer, plays, talent shows, track meets, debates, and the list goes on. During these events I have observed many children, who are there for their siblings, not engaged or supportive. Their parents bring IPADs, or give them phones, they may run around or linger…
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