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Moms on the Run National Fitness Director, Olympian Carrie Tollefson, regularly shares training tips regarding strengthening our running, fitness and health. Today she discusses a couple of her favorite stretches for the quadriceps, that large muscle group on the front of the thigh. Quads are essential to walking, running — and pretty much anything to do with moving. Along with strengthening the quads, it's important to keep them flexible. Without proper stretching at the end of an exercise session, they will become short and tight, affecting your knees and hips. Listen in!
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Moms on the Run National Fitness Director, Olympian Carrie Tollefson, regularly shares training tips regarding strengthening our running, fitness and health. Today, she shares about cross training. Sometimes, we're cross training due to an injury, but often, cross training is an important way to strengthen our muscles and our endurance. Changing up our routines is a great way to surprise our bodies and build muscle. Any of our training plans at Moms on the Run can be used as intervals in the pool or on the bike. Try it! Moms on the Run National Fitness Director, Olympian Carrie Tollefson, regularly shares training tips regarding strengthening our running, fitness and health. Today she discusses hills! If you run with us at Moms on the Run, you know that hills are an important part of our workout. Hills are a great way to build speed and endurance and help you become a stronger, more efficient runner. Listen in as Carrie talks about proper running form for hills. Moms on the Run National Fitness Director, Olympian Carrie Tollefson, regularly shares training tips regarding strengthening our running, fitness and health. Since we're in the middle of the our Month of Miles challenge, Carrie addresses why and how we work on building distance and speed. At Moms on the Run, our training plans are specifically targeted to incorporate difficult days, endurance runs and rest days. We have distance runs to help us build our endurance, we have interval days to help us work on pace. Mixing up various distances and paces will help us to become strong runners. Moms on the Run National Fitness Director, Olympian Carrie Tollefson, regularly shares training tips regarding strengthening our running, fitness and health. Today, she discusses safely increasing your distance. June is our Month of Miles challenge, where we are challenging you to log distance every day. This does not mean you have to add more days of running; walking is also important in this challenge. When we speak of increasing distance in our runs, rather than adding another day, increase your distance by adding on to a current run — whether it's an additional five minutes or half a mile. Listen in! |
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