Build speed and tone those pins with these five lower body exercises
Core Values Workout
By Ted Spiker Strong abs will improve your form, reduce injuries, and make you faster. Add balance training to your routine. Exercises that challenge gravity and simulate the demands running makes on your muscles are called balance exercises. Balance training recruits the muscles you use while running and gives you the ability to properly catch yourself, with minimizes the chance of fatigue or injury. We created the following exercise routine…
Tone Your Trouble Spots: Tummy
Do you need to tone your stomach? Want wash-board abs? Need that six pack? Do these 4 simple exercise routines to work those abs.
Standing Up Core Exercises: Band Rotation
Runners need to train the entire core – the muscles that attach to the pelvis – to run safely and efficiently. This routine strengthens the core plus the hip flexors, hamstrings and quads and improves balance. Do these moves, working up to three sets of ten reps, after easy runs – when you wouldn’t want to lie down anyway. Band Rotation a) Attach a resistance band to a doorway at…
Standing Up Core Exercises: Posterior Reach
Runners need to train the entire core – the muscles that attach to the pelvis – to run safely and efficiently. This routine strengthens the core plus the hip flexors, hamstrings and quads and improves balance. Do these moves, working up to three sets of ten reps, after easy runs – when you wouldn’t want to lie down anyway. Posterior Reach Stand with feet parallel, hip-width apart, hands across the…
Standing Up Core Exercises: Single Leg Reach
Runners need to train the entire core – the muscles that attach to the pelvis – to run safely and efficiently.
Excess Weight Around Your Middle
A RW reader sent us this question: I train quite a lot and am fairly fit. One problem is that I do still have to try lose some weight on my waist but find this difficult even with the training. What foodstuffs should I avoid to help?
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