This week’s guest blog post is by coach Gary Reynolds. He shared these ideas with me over lunch this past spring, and I found them so helpful I asked him to write about them to share with you. I’ll be back to blogging next week, sharing some observations about the runners in the Commonwealth Games. … Read more
I’d intended to move on to more running-related issues involving forward head and stress today, but so many people responded to last week’s blog post on “Forward Head Posture” with practical questions about how to avoid it that I thought it was worth spending one more week on the topic to give you some solutions. … Read more
In a previous post I told you about an orienting exercise I’ve been doing to relieve stress. Maybe exercise isn’t the right word, let’s call it an activity, just a normal human thing that people have been doing forever… except that it’s way too easy to go extended periods of time without doing it in … Read more
Today I have a bit more on running and stress for you; after this I’ll be back to blogging about running technique. I’m starting to get excited for the Olympics, are you? I promise you some running form/technique analyses of the distance events. I’ve spent a long time on the topic of stress, though, because through … Read more
The Olympics are right around the corner, and pretty soon we’re going to be looking at what helps people run fast. So let’s take a moment now to prepare by looking at the flip side of the coin: how to run slowly without hurting yourself or feeling miserable. You may be thinking it’s the struggle … Read more
Stress and running has been the theme of my summer so far, as you know from my recent blog posts. I thought I was finished with that series, but then in one of those delightful coincidences life is so full of, last week I finally got around to listening to some of the tracks on … Read more
Four blog posts ago I started this series on running and stress by sharing a stress-reducing “orienting” exercise that involves simply looking around and allowing your senses to work together. That might seem so simple it’s almost stupid until you check how you’re using your eyes at various points during the day. I bet for … Read more
Today, as I continue to write my series of blog posts on stress, I’m sitting up tall with my computer set on a stand to bring the screen to eye level. I’ve got all sorts of techniques for avoiding forward head posture and that’s been true now for awhile. But despite them, and despite the fact … Read more
I’ve had ample opportunity recently to think about stress and movement. As I sought ways to ease my stress over the past few unsettled months–four moves in two months with my family, living out of suitcases in a new country where we speak the language to only a limited degree–I found that movement was the stress-reducer I … Read more
