Ready to Run

Although your body is designed to last you 110 years, you can shred through it in 20 if you try hard enough. If you have a multimillion-dollar contract in place, there may be room for debate. But if you’re running for the sheer love of it…what then?

Alter the task-completion mindset It’s great that you have the discipline to climb out of bed at 4:30 in the morning and check your daily run off the list before the first hint of dawn. That’s fantastic. But I want more from you. I’m asking you to go the extra mile and hold the quality of your running to a higher standard. That means asking yoursel

These new shapes and tendencies of your tissues and joints are no longer conducive to running. You must now be reborn to run.

The glutes are the largest muscles in your body, and if you put them to full advantage (a life of sitting in chairs can impede on the magnificent flow of power that your posterior chain was engineered to channel), you will be using muscles that are relatively inexhaustible.

It’s a book for the Formula 1 runner seeking health and high performance over a lifetime. All human beings should be able and willing to perform basic maintenance on themselves. Sports medicine has its place, but you have both a right and a responsibility to know what’s going on in your body, take care of as much business as you can, and harvest an

It is really a combination of arches: the medial longitudinal arch, lateral longitudinal arch, and anterior transverse arch—analogous to a suspension bridge or a leaf spring in a car.

Routine maintenance on your personal running machine can be and should be performed by you.

Bring a rolling pin or softball with you on the plane, wear compression gear, and bring a tube of electrolyte tablets for the water to hydrate. And what about your overall strategy for achieving a challenging range of motion standard? You

The real game-changer is the attitude we adopt in our lives as runners: the conviction that we are responsible for taking care of our running machines like a master mechanic would.