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Outdoor Gait Training and Shin Splints
Many exercisers enjoy treadmill running, but often suffer from shin splints. Outdoor gait training and home exercises significantly reduced pain for subjects in a 4-week study conducted by University of Virginia researchers. Gait training exercises reduced ground contact time, increased cadence, and decreased stride lengths. For home conditioning, participants did single-leg squats and lateral step…
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Running Benefits for Brain Health
Investigators now have new insight into how running benefits brain health, movement and cognition by examining dopamine levels.
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Isometrics or Static Stretching for Runners?
It may be worthwhile to examine isometrics for runners which have more positive effects and less negative impact than static stretching.
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Run Pacing and Gender
Gender does not alter run pacing strategy in world-record–breaking events at championship and meet races, according to a study.
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Improving Support for Postpartum Running
Women who continue running during pregnancy are more likely to return to postpartum running following pregnancy, according to a study.
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Running Programs for Clients
Having a running program offers advantages for both you and your clients. And the very idea of running is gaining steam. A RunRepeat.com report recently showed that 28.76% of current runners began running during the pandemic. More than 7o% of these new runners run primarily to improve physical health. That’s up 18.03% from runners who began running before the pandemic.
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Music for Running Performance
On days when mental energy is low, the benefits of music for running can help by lifting performance back to normal levels.
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Recurring Running Injuries
A study found that recreational runners with a prior injury were twice as likely to sustain new running injuries.
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High Risk for Recreational Running Injuries
Roughly half of runners will experience recreational running injuries, regardless of age, gender or experience, according to research.
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Running and Mental Health
“Running has important positive implications for mental health, particularly depression and anxiety disorders,” note authors of a comprehensive study.
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Women Pace Better Than Men
Women pace themselves better than men when running marathons, according to an analysis of 10 years of marathon results on RunRepeat.com.
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Muscle Cramps? Find Out Why
Muscle cramps can stop athletes in their tracks. Although they usually self-extinguish within seconds or minutes, the abrupt, harsh, involuntary muscle contractions can cause mild-to-severe agony and immobility, often accompanied by knotting of the affected muscle (Minetto et al. 2013). And cramps are common; 50%–60% of healthy people suffer muscle cramps during exercise, sleep or pregnancy or after vigorous physical exertion (Giuriato et al. 2018).
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