Lactate Threshold
What Is It and How Do You Leverage It for Endurance Running? If you take running seriously, you may already be familiar with your lactate threshold and how to utilize it to improve your performance. If not, we’re here to…
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Running Indoors
The Pros & Cons of Treadmill Running Even if the majority of the miles you log are outside, there are still plenty of reasons to go for a run on a treadmill. Whether inversion, cold temperatures, or short days keep…
Does Heart Rate Training Still Matter?
Perhaps the bright toes of barely unboxed running shoes peep from your closet or sit stationed at the ready next to the front door. Winter’s toxic air inversions and slick patches of blacktop that have keep runners sequestered on treadmills…
Mindfulness – Mental Health with Sports
How Runners Can Use Mindfulness to Gain an Edge By Natalie Graves, AM, LCSW, CADC What is mindfulness? The practice of mindfulness comes from Buddhist mediation. Research shows mindfulness therapy has numerous uses, including reducing symptoms of depression and anxiety.…
4 Reasons to Roll
The Resurgence of Inline Skating By Kimberly Kraan: owner, the SKATENOW shop, Inc. Over the past few seasons, the once thought ‘dead and gone’ sport of inline skating has witnessed a vast resurgence. New technologies of larger wheels and improvements…
So You Want to Be an Ironman
What to Know Before Your First Event By Angela Heydorn That moment you push submit and then BOOM! Suddenly, you’re signed up for your first Ironman or Ironman 70.3. You giggle at first in a fit of joy. Fast-forward three…
Mix Up Your Training with Watersports
Maybe your training has plateaued and no matter what exercises you try or what gym you go to you just can’t quite reach that next goal. Maybe your joints ache every time you do anything involving running and you’re not…
Why Weight?
The Whole-Body Benefits of Strength Training To stay fit for running, biking, or skiing all year-round, you already know the importance of keeping up regular cardio workouts. But you may be missing out on another core element of a balanced…
Rest & Recovery | A Key to Success
As a trainer, overtraining is something I see a lot of people do, especially when starting a new program. You’re excited and committed, but you work yourself so hard that you’re stiff, sore, and can barely move. This increases your…
How Dangerous is Our Air?
Facts and Tips for Utah Athletes An unborn baby’s lungs are full of amniotic fluid. Before we exit the womb, we’re incapable of breathing so mom delivers the requisite oxygen through the placenta, but once on the outside…we’re on our…