Tag Archive | "Fit-tastic"
Walk, don’t run
“Squeeze your butt and take full steps,” Kpop (a k a Karley Poplestein), 02 Fitness trainer by day/walking coach by early evening instructed as we began walking from The Athlete’s Foot in Cameron Village to the nearby Rose Garden. That’s a … curious request, I thought. Fortunately, before I could reach behind and grab my [...]
Continue reading...Hamstrung: The recovery
Friday, October 2, 2009
Finally, the exciting conclusion to our hamstring injury! (Guilty of hyperbole. Let’s proceed.) OK, a hamstring injury isn’t glamorous. It doesn’t have the cache of, say, an ACL injury. But it’s common among weekend warriors. Don’t warm up, go out too fast — ping! — there’s a debilitating snap in the back of your leg. A [...]
Continue reading...Have a ball? Have a ball!
Thursday, October 1, 2009
When I’d reached my self-imposed word limit yesterday I said I’d return today with recommendations for working through a hamstring injury and ways to prevent it from happening again. Which I’ll get to. But first I need to tell you about an orphaned ball. It was a good hour until dinner, the early evening was warm [...]
Continue reading...Hamstrung by a hamstring
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
It was the second inning and we were only down by two, but already I could feel the game slipping away. There was a short fly to the first base side, I started to sprint over and — Aiieee! — I felt a hamstring go. The semitendinosus, if my reading of the Full Body Anatomy [...]
Continue reading...Six runners, six reasons to run
Friday, September 25, 2009
Ernie Parker talks strategy with coach Tim Clark. I’ve shared why I signed up for the Fit-tastic running program: to relive the glory days of my running youth and hopefully do sub 8-minute miles in the Halloween weekend Monster Dash 5K. Now here’s why some of my peers in the advanced runner category are in the [...]
Continue reading...Coach, redefined
Saturday, September 5, 2009
It’s been 35 years since I’ve been under the influence of a coach. Then, playing high school baseball, I listened only out of fascination over how this guy thought his berating and belittling was motivating us. He was a study in growth-stunted, ex-jock, why-didn’t-i-get-drafted psychology.
Continue reading...Back on the run
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
I ran back in my 20s, back when my body was more tolerant of the physical toll of running 25 to 35 miles a week. I ran 10Ks (pr of 40:04) and a smattering of 5Ks (20:02 pr). Toward the end of my 29th year my knees and back had had enough. Do something else, [...]
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009
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