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Moms on the Run National Fitness Director, Olympian Carrie Tollefson, regularly shares training tips regarding how to strengthen our running, fitness and health. Today, we feature part 2 in our series about shin splints — ouch! Shin splints are one of the most common injuries runners experience. Here are three additional exercises you can do to strengthen and stretch your shins. And if you missed part 1, check out last week's training tip on our blog!
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Moms on the Run National Fitness Director, Olympian Carrie Tollefson, regularly shares training tips regarding how to strengthen our running, fitness and health. Today, we're talking about shin splints. Shin splints are one of the most common injuries runners experience. It’s that nagging pain in your lower leg that can be the result of small stress fractures of the shin, extremely tight muscles or from overuse and repetitive stress. This pain can be a caused by increasing the mileage or frequency of your runs too quickly to a weakness in your core or hips. If you have pain in your shins when you run, your first course of action is to avoid running on hard surfaces, reduce the frequency of your runs and your weekly mileage and warm up properly. In addition to those three, stretching and strengthening the feet, lower legs, hips and core is your next alternative. Today, we feature part 1 of three exercises you can do to strengthen and stretch your shins.  When the pandemic started, you may have had the best intentions of using your time to get fit. However, with a variety of challenges filling your time, don't feel bad if you have yet to start over a year later. The good news is it's never too late and now is the ideal time to find a fitness routine that works for you.
Moms on the Run National Fitness Director, Olympian Carrie Tollefson, regularly shares training tips to help us strengthen our running, fitness and health. Today, Carrie shares tips on hydrating, not only with water but with electrolytes too. Rehydration is an essential part of recovering from a workout — it helps lower temperature and heart rate, lubricate joints, repair muscles, ward off muscle cramps, ease fatigue and keep the digestion process working properly. And of course, it helps prevent dehydration. Today's video is Part 3 of our Ask Coach Carrie series with Moms on the Run National Fitness Director, Olympian Carrie Tollefson. Kathryn N. asks: "Can you discuss foam rolling and show us the proper way?" Listen in as Carrie shares about one of her favorite tools. To watch any previous training tips, please search our blog archives (to the right) by topic under Training Tips or find Moms on the Run on our YouTube channel. |
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