if you’ve ever rationalized skipping it to prep for the next day’s mileage, you may have a point. that’s especially true for people who took up the sport as adults and whose non-running hours include a lot of sitting. that’s running, and your body is the hand truck—it moves its own weight rather effortlessly. the reason strength training makes you faster is because it lowers the amount of energy required to hit a certain pace, explains kenji doma, ph.d., a …

the first thing i decided, about two years ago now, was that running is secondary for me. my goals don’t necessarily require running to be at the forefront of my training. i had a half marathon last june, but my running since then has been, essentially, 20 minutes of sprints once or twice a week with one easy 30-minute run per week occasionally, like only if the weather was nice—and it’s been atrocious here in the pacific northwest. so, i …

if you’ve ever rationalized skipping it to prep for the next day’s mileage, you may have a point. that’s especially true for people who took up the sport as adults and whose non-running hours include a lot of sitting. that’s running, and your body is the hand truck—it moves its own weight rather effortlessly. the reason strength training makes you faster is because it lowers the amount of energy required to hit a certain pace, explains kenji doma, ph.d., a …

so, first of all, i was swimming 3 days a week and lifting weights at the gym the other 2days. i have a feeling he doesn’t think swimming works you out so much, he says it’s more like cardio… i’m not so knowledgeable on this so i don’t know what is right or wrong. if someone starts swimming in a different way than the one she thinks is the correct form, she’ll call that person out trying to teach the …

so you want to be like kobe? to put into perspective how much work he puts in, this is just one part of the infamous 666 workout that kobe does- during the off season. he breaks down each 6 hour workout into 2 hours of track running, 2 hours of shooting and skill conditioning, and 2 hours of conditioning and weightlifting in the gym. today, we show you the exercises that make up the running and weightlifting parts of kobe’s …