Yesterday’s workout was the cardio recovery Insanity DVD. As the name suggests it is a “recovery” day, so the workout was a bit different. Instead of a fast paced high intensity workout, the pace is slower with controlled movements. Apparently…
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Tagged with: DVD, Insanity, Plantar Faciitis, Saucony Kinvara
Posted in recovery, running, running injury, running shoes
Posted in recovery, running, running injury, running shoes
Insanity
So, in theory I am “allowed” to start running again this weekend. The Podiatrist said I could give it a shot. This leaves me running in the “improper” shoes however, and my new (although still not what the podiatrist ordered – it…
Tagged with: beach body, Insanity, Plantar Faciitis
Posted in Other Exercise, recovery, running injury
Posted in Other Exercise, recovery, running injury
Product Review – The Stick
So I got one of the “Stiff” sticks for Christmas from my darling wife and have mentioned it in many posts – yet I have never done a “formal” product review. In case you are not a daily reader of…
Tagged with: Calf Pain, Foam rolling, Mathew Nark, product review, self massage, The Stick
Posted in Product Review, recovery, running
Posted in Product Review, recovery, running
Don’t let me get me, I’m my own worst enemy.
It’s amazing how dead on P!nk was with that line. How many quotes have you seen that echo that? “Whether you say you can or you can’t, you’re right!” or what ever inspirational quote Runner’s World posts today on Facebook.…
Injury free Running seminar at Binghamton University
I find it difficult to believe that there are many runners out there that wouldn’t like to run “injury free.”. I especially think that any runner who pulled their calf muscle five times last year AND got shin splints that…
Tagged with: fms, Foam rolling, functional movement system, Health, Injury Free Running, muscle assymetry, Static stretching, Stuyvesant Plaza, The Stick
Posted in Other Exercise, recovery, running, running injury
Posted in Other Exercise, recovery, running, running injury
Not even a late work day is going to keep me from running when it is 60 out!
So, I had great plans last night. I was going to leave work at my usual time (4:00), head home – do a quick mile outside, followed by a nice strength work out. THEN the glory of glories – I was…
A new Domain Name.. and some of that running stuff too..
So its been a quiet week here at onceandfuturerunner.wordpress.com. (Although if you look up at the address bar – you will notice a change! This blog is now “onceandfuturerunner.com!” As you recall from my last posts, my calf muscle had knotted…
Rest Day!! Some days they can be the hardest…. BUT NOT THIS TIME!!!
Yesterday was a rest day! After the previous two days my calves were beyond tired and well in to the realm of “sore.” Ok.. They were into the realm of “hurts to walk”, even though I used the stick quite…
Rest day.. Because your body needs it, even when your mind doesn’t want to!
Sometimes rest days are like a toddler’s nap. The Child may insist they don’t want/need them – yet due to that nap they are MUCH better to be around. Like wise, as a runner, we may not WANT to take…
Foot Turning, Shin Splints and changing the stride.
So, ever since my long run in my marathon-training attempt, I have suffered from some shin splint pain on the left shin after a run. This week has been true to form, with the pain returning as my running has. …
Tagged with: Achilles, Chi Running, Long run and short run, POSE Running, Road running, running, Shin-Splints
Posted in 100 up, recovery, running, running injury
Posted in 100 up, recovery, running, running injury
2013 Was an amazing year, for me, So I am really looking forward to 2014!
Once and Future Runner 