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

performance. It’s not about the shoes. It’s about you.

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.

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

Problems are going to keep coming. Each one is a gift waiting to be opened—some new area of performance you didn’t know you had, or some new efficiency to be gained.

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.

In essence, running is a series of jumps. With each jump, your foot makes contact with the ground; this is known as a foot strike. And in that instant, your body seeks stability. It has to be stable, or you’ll fall.