Apparently my blog has been reduced to a coffee break. Oh well, that’s where I am in life right now and I’m just going to own it. I’m joining Deb and Coco for another virtual coffee. Someday I’ll get to have coffee with friends again. If we were having coffee, I’d tell you that I…
Tag: cross training
Shaking things up: Faster Way to Fat Loss
For the last few years, I’ve been in a bit of a rut. Or maybe it’s more of a repetitive pattern. Build my mileage, run a series of half marathons or a marathon, drop my mileage for a while. Repeat over and over. This has worked really well to get in new states and a…
Building a home gym #MakeYourMove
This post is sponsored by Kohl’s. I was paid for this post and received the included exercise equipment as compensation. Confession: I am not good about cross training and I like to take the path of least resistance when it comes to exercise. I can’t tell you how often I’ve said I’m going to take a…
Time for some cross training: winter is coming!
I confess, when I’m marathon training (even as poorly as I trained this year), I drop cross training like it’s a snake. I stop strength training, I don’t hit the gym, I don’t do yoga. Heck, most times I don’t even use my foam roller. Guess what? I can tell I’ve been doing nothing but…
ZOOMA Summer Fitness Challenge
Confession: I’ve fallen off the running wagon. Life has just been crazy. Not necessarily busier than usual, but just more things from different directions. It’s like trying to keep 1000 balloons in the air rather than five balls – they move slower but there are so many more of them! I have, however, been doing an…
Home Gym Essentials
For the last few months, I’ve been slowly but surely turning my children’s playroom into my personal home gym. The room that used to be filled with legos and cars and balls is slowly but surely being converted into a place to exercise for me. After all, at 14 and 10, my kids really weren’t using…
FE Strong Home Gym Trainer Review #trainbold
It’s been pretty strongly established on this blog that I love to run, but I’m not good about doing anything that resembles cross training. I’ll take a class here and there and I’ve done some sessions with a trainer, but when push comes to shove and time gets tight, running wins every time. So, I…
Cross Training for Runners around Washington DC
This week has been a bit of a rough one. Circumstances beyond my control have prevented me from having a convenient time to run or go to the gym and my own emotional struggles have kept me from putting myself first. I did manage to run on Wednesday with a group of friends and I’m…
Snowzilla hit DC this weekend
As I mentioned on Thursday when I was “thinking out loud about winter”, there was a big storm AKA Snowzilla slated to hit the Washington DC area this past weekend. I have to admit that I had a fair amount of skepticism about exactly how bad the storm would be. We do get the occasional…
5 Reasons to Hire a Personal Trainer
It’s not exactly a secret that I’d rather run any day than hit the gym. When I do hit the gym, I’d rather take a spin class or jump on the elliptical. I’m not sure when this started – I used to weight train 2-3 times a week before we had kids. I think it’s…
Core Strength for Runners – TOTR
Today on Tuesdays on the Run, we are chatting about core strength and workouts for your core. Many runners (ok, I’m referring to myself here) neglect any sort of core work, in favor of just running. Yet a strong core is important for running, especially for long distance running.
Let’s talk injuries (Tuesdays on the Run)
Sometimes it feels like “runner” is synonymous with “injury”. I mean, how often do you open up a blog post to read and find out that one of your favorite running bloggers is dealing with an injury of some sort? Shin splints, plantar fasciitis, stress fractures, achilles tendonitis – which one do YOU have? But…