Tag: injury

  • Yoga Works for Everyone

    Yoga Works for Everyone

      Ultimately mastering yoga comes down to learning to breathe.  It is the breath that can help you push past your current state to improving your health. “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”-Emma Lazarus Quote on the Statue of Liberty. My Story I spent my youth destroying my…

  • More Fuel for the Barefoot Fire

    Runners’ World just blogged an interesting research topic (thank you Miha: http://sweatscience.runnersworld.com/2012/02/barefoot-versus-running-shoes-which-is-surprisingly-more-efficient/ The research showed that running with shoes is actually more energy efficient than running with minimalist shoes.  As I am adding more fuel to fire the barefoot vs.shoed running debate I wanted to give a couple reasons to use minimalist shoes. A good place…

  • Do as I say, not as I do

    I runners am just as stubborn as you are.  I too make mistakes.  I’m known to push  too far and too fast than a smart training program would prescribe. On Sunday I did my 3 mile recovery run in my Nike Frees just to see how it felt–TOO FAR runners!  You should run .5-1 miles…