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Runner's High: What is it and why is it a good thing?
Experienced runners crave it. Beginners can't wait to experience it. What is runner's high? To put it simply, it is that sense of accomplishment, that euphoric feeling you get when your body and mind attune after intense physical exercise. Running is a unique physical activity because it involves cardio, endurance,...

Seven Psychological Benefits of Running
Running has been recommended by many doctors and therapists to people who are in the quest to improving their mental health. This is because running, like other exercises, unquestionably takes care of the mental health as efficiently as it does to one’s physical well-being. There are many psychological benefits of...

Running Tips for Beginners
Running is an enjoyable, low-maintenance sport that it is no surprise many are enticed to get into it. Many beginning runners, however, initially find running somewhat injurious and exhausting and so give up. Truth is, it can be, especially if the novice runners have not been properly educated. To get...

Running Affirmations
Running is empowerment. Before I begin a run, I prepare mentally. I pre-determine goals. I plan to improve my distance, time, or pace. Running challenges my physical and mental stamina. I maintain focus throughout. Distractions affect my ability to succeed. I concentrate on the path ahead of me, my pace,...

Breathing Enhances Performance in Running
One of the more important aspects of running is the proper way of breathing. Running is not just about the legs and thighs and feet. It is also about the lungs and how to bring greater amounts of oxygen into the system efficiently. Unnoticed by many, even by the athletes...

Nutrition and Running
Running is one of today’s healthiest ways to help maintain your body’s physical well-being. It is one good cardiovascular exercise that helps keep good circulation and a healthy heart. Everybody needs proper nutrition and a healthy diet. This requirement becomes more vital for people who are into health activities like...

Losing Weight With Running
Running is one of the best ways of losing weight, as attested to by many experts and the hundreds of thousands of runners who had lost weight. If your immediate goal right now is losing weight, running is one of the best alternatives. It is almost without cost. It might...

List of Important Running Gear
People say that when you have a good pair of running shoes, you’re good to go. This is generally true, but if you want to make the most out of your running experience, you need to invest in some things. Following are some of the important running gears and accessories...

How to Stay Motivated With Running
As one ignorant non-runner said, running is boring, exhausting, and sometimes painful. Yet today, running is one of the most popular individual sports in the world, counting millions and millions of followers. This number does not even include yet those who are engaged into serious competitive running. How do they...

Fueling Your Running
Like a car, a runner who wants to operate at his or her most optimum potential needs his or her particular set of fuels. He or she needs the right combination of carbohydrates, proteins and fats to fuel his running. Each of these food groups has a specific function to...

Dressed Up for Running
Running, one of the world’s most popular sports, is actually the most ideal of them all. What makes it ideal is the fact that it is a very simple, healthy kind of sport and that it does not entail buying any expensive gear at all. The benefits are the same...

Common Running Injuries
Although running is perhaps the simplest form of sport and exercise, it is highly susceptible to injuries. Running injuries are not uncommon among runners—novice or long-time. And if you’ve been running for a while, you most likely have experienced any of these common injuries: Runner’s knee Also referred to as...