I enjoy listening to music while exercising. When I look around the gym where I work out or watch other runners when I’m out running for fitness, it’s clear I’m not alone. But apart from the simple enjoyment of music, is there any benefit to running with music? First, I find certain songs to be…

We’ve all been there: in the shape of our lives until life gets in the way and we just can’t seen to find the time or energy to exercise. Running for fitness can be a great way to recover your health and be happy with your body. But before you get going, you need a…

As a runner, you have a number of tools in your toolkit of tricks that can improve your speed, increase your endurance or maybe help you manage or lose weight. When running for fitness, I like to think of your training program like three legs of a stool: how far you run, how fast you…

For anyone to be fit, running is one of the most recommended methods to be followed. The oxygen content in the atmosphere will be very high in the early hours of the day. Thus running in the early hours of the morning is greatly beneficial to the person’s body. Once started, the person should continue…

Most people start running to lose those few extra pounds, or to maintain that ideal body weight. Running soon becomes their exercise of choice for physical fitness. Running requires a lot of energy from the body. Using the large leg muscles, as well as virtually every other muscle in the body, running burns more calories…

For people running in the dark may be the only time when they are free to train. There can be many reasons for this that includes avoiding the heat during the day, their work schedule or family commitments. There are many advantages of running after dark. The obvious one is there will be less traffic…

Are you beginning to wake up in the morning dreading your training run? Do not worry, because you are not alone. We all go through this stage at sometime in our training and it is only natural. It feels that those days where we could not wait to get out of our beds and start…

When you are doing your weekly training sessions it is a good idea to include strength training into your training program. This means you do not have to lift weight but it does mean you can add a few strength exercises. One great exercise to build strength is circuit training. Circuits are simple to do…

Many people have tried running, and many people have hated it. The roots of this displeasure can be traced to the running boom of the 1970’s, when running proponents, caught up in a near orgiastic buzz, loudly pronounced that the best approach to running was longer, faster, and harder, and they did exactly that –…

The running shoe model needs to be fixed. Pronation, motion control, cushioning, and stability shoes? Get rid of them all. It’s not just barefoot running and minimalism versus running shoes, the either/or situation many portray it to be. It’s much deeper than that. It’s not even that running shoe companies are evil and out to…