Advanced Soft Tissue Strategies for Lower Leg Pain
Legs hurting you and foam rolling not working? Here are some other tissue mobilizing strategies you can use to help.
Legs hurting you and foam rolling not working? Here are some other tissue mobilizing strategies you can use to help.
Sometimes pushing through the pain is more detrimental than beneficial to your training.
To keep running feeling good through a lifetime in the sport, it’s important to consider these lifestyle factors.
Having backcountry skills will not only keep you safe, but can allow you to explore more remote trails and vistas.
Here’s what the science says about running outdoors when it’s very cold.
It is important to have specificity in training, but sometimes all we need is general fitness to succeed.
While training hard is important, it’s just as important to find balance among all our life’s responsibilities.
We all have experienced the dreaded jet lag, but today we learn about more of the struggles runners face while traveling and how to avoid them.
Joe Uhan almost quit running: here he outlines ways we can climb out of a hole when we want to quit.
Taking a down week helps your body recover and build on fitness gained within running cycles.
A how-to for putting together your own trail running training plan.
Should you take iron? Are carbon shoes taking over? What about ultra-young ultrarunners? Using science, we bust myths associated with these questions.
Achilles tendon pain keeping you down? Give these strategies a try to reduce that pain while running.
Coach Alex Nichols talks about the ever elusive virtue — patience — and how to put it to use on race day.
How hill workouts can help new trail runners grow strong, fast, and confident on the trails.
What happens if you need your hip replaced? Corrine Malcom dives in with multiple runners who have had to go down this path.
Here’s physiotherapist Joe Uhan’s roadmap to help you recover from a chronic running injury.
Coach Alex Nichols talks about the failure avoidance cycle, and how we can break out of it.
A basic how-to on speedwork for runners just getting into trail running.
A scientific review of the effects of ultrarunning on various body systems and for different runners.
Physiotherapist Joe Uhan tells us how to use the split squat to build running strength.
Coach Alex Nichols talks about the importance of time off after a big race or training block, and how it should vary based upon a runner’s specific needs.
An introduction to long runs and how to execute them in your trail running training.
iRunFar digs into the details and implications of heart rate variability for endurance runners.
These commandments of healthy running will lead you to a lifetime of fast and far running.
Coach Alex Nichols writes about how run commuting can help balance our run training with the rest of our lives.
How easy runs and recovery runs are part of a balanced training program for trail running.
New data are emerging about the mental health of ultra-endurance athletes.