Fitness 

Hip & Glute Strengthening Exercises for Runners (Injury Prevention)

Hip and Glute strengthening exercises are an important part of injury prevention for runners. These exercises can help runners avoid injuries such as iliotibial band syndrome, hip labral tear, and iliopsoas strain. There are many benefits to hip and glute strengthening exercises for runners. They can help prevent common running injuries like iliotibial band syndrome, hip labral tear, and iliopsoas strain. — These strengthening exercises are important for runners because they prevent injuries. They also help improve running performance. This article provides a list of hip and glute strengthening exercises…

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Fitness 

5 Best Exercises for Runners!

5 Best Exercises for Runners! Running Cross Training Exercises. Become a faster, stronger runner using these in your routine. Marta wears lululemon: amzn.to/1SPa23O Subscribe to our channel: bit.ly/22LGXK7 Music Credit: “All My Chicks” – Ken Wallace. freeplaymusic.com/search/category_search.php?t=v&i=1680 All you need for running are two feet and a heart beat! It can be such a rewarding activity, regardless of whether you are a competitive runner, or just doing it for health benefits. Brock and Marta share five exercises that will make you a stronger, faster runner. Most importantly, these exercises will…

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Leg Workouts Runners 

Exercises for Runners: Clock Lunges

Exercises for Runners: Clock Lunges Why: Improves ankle, knee, and hip stability while moving through all planes of motion. Especially important for injury prevention in the case of unanticipated movement while running (e.g. side-stepping off sidewalks, moving around other runners during a race, and avoiding slipping at water stations) How: 1. Imagine you are standing in the center of the face of a clock. 2. Keeping your right foot planted, step forward to “12 o’clock” with your left foot, reaching your arms forward at shoulder height at the same time.…

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Leg Workouts 

Exercises for Runners: Single-Leg Bridge Lift with Leg Lowers

Why: Isometrically enhances gluteal and also hamstring muscular tissues while turning on reduced abdominals, psoas, and also iliacus muscular tissues. How:. 1. Lie on your back with your hands at your sides, your knees curved, and also your feet level on the flooring. 2. Extend one leg directly to the skies, pressing via your heel. 3. Press your hips up, acquiring your glutes and also abdominals to maintain the hips. 4. Hold this raised placement while you gradually reduced the raised leg down to the flooring. Raise back up without…

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Leg Workouts Runners 

Exercises for Runners: Multiplanar Single-Leg Reaches

Why: Improves capacity of stability and balance in the hip by training it in different directions, on varying planes. A progression from the Single Leg Deadlift. How: 1. Standing with arms by your sides and a slight bend in the right knee, raise the left leg slightly off the ground. 2. Hinge forward at the waist and lift the left leg straight behind you until your chest is parallel to the floor. Engage your hamstring and glute of the right leg planted on the ground and come back to standing.…

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