Here are some nutritions tips you can use for recovery
Save a Friendship, Bring a Towel
Here’s a quick trailrunner life hack: always have a towel with you in the car. We all know what it’s like when your shoes are caked in mud (signs of a good time) and you step into the car. The simple solution to this is removing your shoes before you get in. But what if you’ve got a bad case of stinky socks?
Proper Breathing
Don’t Let Your Core Temperature Drop: Change Your Base Layers
I was so close to having the race of my life 2 years ago. I had made my way up to 2nd place female during a 100 mile trail race and had been able to comfortably hold my position all day and night. My training had paid off and I was able to execute pacing and fueling according to plan. It was a fluke weather race for the history books with a blizzard and tornado (yes, a tornado in Utah) that hit the day before the race.
Uphill Battle
When anyone compliments my skiing, I want to hug them and cry. Sometimes I just give the hug and pause until the frog in my throat retreats. Nothing frees up — or focuses — every cell in my body like leaning into a nice, fast turn. Nothing pairs free-wheeling giddiness with the immediate necessity of reading and evaluating a backcountry snowpack.
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Save Your Knees with Proper Landing Mechanics
The HOW TO Prepare Guide: Before/During/After Training and Racing
Stop Looking at the Scale
I have always struggled with the dichotomy of achieving a desired weight on the scale and achieving a specific performance goal with my running. That’s not to say that hitting a certain “race weight” has its benefits in your performance (optimal VO2max for one). The problem with my past obsession with the scale is that I found myself restricting my calories in order to lose weight during my training season. There are two problems with this:
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Sports Nutrition Basics
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Personal Culture
Guidelines to Training When Sick
he ever frustrating scenario: you are on a roll with your training, nailing all your effort sessions and hitting some new levels in your fitness. You feel good! And then you wake up in the morning and you aren’t feeling so good anymore. In fact, you feel awful. You’re sick. Now what do you do? Here are some simple guidelines to help you decide whether you should continue training or take some time off:
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What is Base Training
During preseason, a common phrase you’ll hear thrown around is base training. So what is it? In a nutshell, there are two main types of training: aerobic and anaerobic. Aerobic training focuses on improving cardiorespiratory endurance. Anaerobic training focuses on increasing muscular strength and your body’s ability to buffer lactic acid in the body. So when we are base training, we are trying to keep our body in an aerobic state. Anaerobic training is still important to the endurance athlete, but for the sake of discussion, we will keep this to the base training and talk about anaerobic training in another article.
