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Are you neglecting your other half?
As runners we tend to focus a great deal of our energy and attention on our legs. While our lower half largely drives running, our upper bodies play a key role. Tight chests and shoulders or weak upper...
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Get your knee back on track
A sharp pain in your knee can bring any runner to a halt – or at least slow us down significantly! Unfortunately, as runners, we are prone to knee injuries. The issue is not necessary the knee itself,...
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Four for your core
When we think about a strong core, most of us imagine washboard abs and endless hours of crunches. Surprisingly, it’s possible to have a six pack with a relatively weak core. The core is comprised of...
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Stay safe by stabilizing your ankles
Our ankles aren’t glamorous! In fact, they even cross our mind very often. But the oft-ignored ankle may have the greatest impact on your running performance, especially if you haven’t considered...
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Pre-race meditation: 3 breathing techniques to calm your nerves.
In preparation for a race, we might spend hundreds of hours training. While yoga increases strength and flexibility of the body, it also does this for the mind. Pre-race nerves can affect both new...
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Top 10 reasons why runners should do yoga
1) Helps to identify muscular imbalances. Runners who have visited a physiotherapist at some point in their running life have probably done the test where you squat on your right leg with the left...
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New runners need extra dynamic stretching
Regardless of how athletic you are, when you take up a new sport like running, you will feel some strain on your muscles, but that’s okay! We all know that when we start running, or change up our...
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Restorative yoga: relax and recover during training
Yoga is a great cross-training activity that can help prevent injury and enhance your running performance. It not only strengthens and lengthens your muscles, but it can also be used to help relax your...
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Prevent tibial stress fractures with strong calves
Running causes repetitive force and stress on our bodies. Sometimes this continuous stress can cause tiny cracks in our bones, known as stress fractures or hairline fractures. Stress fractures account...
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Your posture is key: fixing anterior pelvic tilt
There is a lot of research on exaggerated pelvic tilt in athletes and how it is linked to injuries, particularly in the hamstrings and lower back. Anterior pelvic tilt, or forward rotation of your hip...
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Keep your TFL flexible
Want to run faster and avoid knee pain? Keep your TFL flexible. The tensor fascia latae (TFL) muscle is one of the hip flexor muscles responsible for pulling your thigh up (flexing the hip!), abducting...
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Find focus with mindfulness meditation
We all run for different reasons. Running can be extremely therapeutic, helping people to de-stress or separate from the busy thoughts of the day. Running can be a great way to practice meditation...
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Explore your edge
The phrase “playing the edge” is used in yoga to describe the point in a stretch before pain, where you body begins to feel intense sensations. Finding your edge in each posture is essential for...
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Strength moves to do when killing time
Life gets busy. Sometimes it’s easier to just not to the strength and stretching that keeps us strong for running. But these few moves can be done throughout the day while waiting for other things to...
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Run faster with strong arms
Run faster with strong arms. We all know that cross training is key to becoming a faster, stronger runner. No matter how many hours you spend on the road or track, running alone won’t always make you...
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How to cross train properly
Q: I’m primarily a runner but I have interests in other sports and I use them to cross train. I don’t know how often I should be doing these other activities. Is there such thing as too much? A: This...
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Strength and yoga training books for runners
Runners keep up motivation in many ways. One way to stay on track is by keeping up with the smaller things. Maybe your calves need a little extra help or maybe you’ve ignored tightness for too long....
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Post-run rituals to add to your routine
Being a runner means more than just putting on a pair of shoes, heading out the door and running for a set period of time. What you do in your spare time, what you eat, and how you take care of...
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Runner’s yoga pose of the month: Butterfly
Yoga can work wonders when it comes to fixing stiff muscles and correcting imbalance. City Yogis brings us a pose of the month, Butterfly Pose, for runners to stretch out the inner thighs. To do this...
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