Do you practice good manners at running events? Written by: Matt Fitzgerald A road race is not like a formal dinner at Buckingham Palace. There aren’t a million different rules of etiquette that you must remember to avoid embarrassing yourself and annoying others. But there are some rules of proper conduct in running events, and [...]
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Are you eating the foods you should be for energy, recovery, and fitness? Written by: Matt Fitzgerald Suppose you could only stock your kitchen with 10 foods. As an runner, which foods should you choose? If you asked a dozen sports nutritionists to answer this question, you would almost certainly get a dozen different lists. [...]
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Racing Weight author Matt Fitzgerald explains how not just eating breakfast, but eating a big breakfast, can help you get leaner and race faster! Click here to watch the video.
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Six-hundred-meter breakdowns are a great speed workout for all distance runners. Whether you’re a first-year runner or a veteran competitor, whether you race 5K’s or marathons, there’s a place for 600-meter breakdowns in your training.
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Your body knows what it can do. Confidence is its way of telling you. Written by: Matt Fitzgerald There are two types of confidence: mental and physical. Mental confidence is confidence as we all know it: a belief that one is capable of performing specific tasks or achieving specific goals. Physical confidence is a subconscious [...]
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The ultramarathon man promises we ain’t seen nuthin’ yet. Interview by: Matt Fitzgerald It’s been five years since Dean Karnazes suddenly became one of the most famous runners in the world with the publication of his bestselling memoir, Ultramarathon Man. It’s been four years since he made more waves by running 50 marathons in 50 [...]
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A new Canadian study shows that a little jumping goes a long way for runners. Written by: Matt Fitzgerald Running is basically a form of jumping. Plyometrics is a type of exercise that is designed to maximize an athlete’s jumping ability. So it’s not surprising that past research has shown that plyometrics training enhances running [...]
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Are you a marathon veteran who has contemplated going longer but you keep talking yourself out of it? Let America’s best ultrarunner give you a push. Interview by: Matt Fitzgerald When Scott Jurek came out of nowhere to win the first of his seven Western States 100 titles in 1999, many other runners admired him, [...]
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When the nine-time New York City Marathon winner gives running advice, we should all listen. Interview by: Matt Fitzgerald The second edition of Run Your First Marathon: Everything You Need to Know to Reach the Finish Line, by nine-time New York City Marathon champion Grete Waitz and collaborator Gloria Averbuch, was recently released by SkyHorse [...]
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Has your fitness development stagnated? Get the momentum going again with these five plateau-busting training changes. Written by: Matt Fitzgerald There’s no better feeling in the life of a runner than getting fitter. When every workout seems both faster and easier than the last. And there’s no worse feeling than the dreaded plateau. When your [...]
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A new study suggests your body knows best how hard to run each interval and how long to rest in between. Written by: Matt Fitzgerald Effective interval training depends on two factors: good planning and proper execution. Good planning entails choosing specific interval workout formats that are appropriate to your goals and current fitness level. [...]
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The benefits are scientifically proven. All the pros do it. But the average competitive runner won’t budge. Written by: Matt Fitzgerald I started running a few weeks before my 12th birthday. Sixteen years later I raced my first triathlon. My motivation for branching out to multisport at age 28 was a simple desire to experience [...]
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She will run the anchor leg of Sunday’s marathon for the “LA Ink” relay team. Interview by: Matt Fitzgerald More than 30,000 runners will participate in the Rock ‘n’ Roll San Diego Marathon and Half Marathon To Benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Sunday. The participant with the most Twitter followers will be Kat Von [...]
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The next time you bonk, blame your brain. Written by: Matt Fitzgerald For almost the entire history of the field of exercise science, fatigue was believed to have been caused by “catastrophic” events in the muscles, such as muscle glycogen depletion and lactic acid buildup that caused them to simply stop working right. But a [...]
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Business is booming at America’s running injury clinics. Written by: Matt Fitzgerald Darwin Fogt, PT, owner of Evolution Physical Therapy in Culver City, CA, is alarmed by a stark new trend at his facility: runners with injuries caused by barefoot (or virtually barefoot) running. Fogt says he has four or five current patients with heel [...]
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