If the winter temps where you live regularly register below freezing and you’re buried in snow for months at a time, it can be tempting to stay inside and push pause on training—but that may not be the best for your health. Weeks of inactivity will leave you deconditioned, making it harder to enjoy your […]
I hobbled across the finish line of my first marathon, swearing up and down that I wasn’t running another one—ever again, under any circumstances. Less than three months later, I’d be training for my next 26.2-mile race, aiming to catapult myself to PR and more enjoyable experience, all the while finding out that being able […]
Plantar fasciitis can be a particularly scummy injury. Anti-inflammatories don’t do much; ice doesn’t help. And if you let it linger, you could be waiting for over a year to find relief from chronic pain—and not just in your foot. “If you let [plantar fasciitis] go for too long, it can lead to other issues, […]
If you have tight calves, you know lower-leg pain and movement restriction can make everything from doing a squat to descending a flight of stairs seemingly impossible. You may have tried stretching and foam rolling with limited success, or taken a massage gun to your calves only to find that, within a day or so, […]
“There’s no way I’m middle-aged—not me.” I firmly told my 15-year-old daughter as she was grouping me with the more mature set. Then, as teenagers often do, she bluntly pointed out that 41 years was indeed more than half the average life expectancy of women in the U.S. Let me tell you, that hit harder […]