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Brisk walking—especially uphill, with a pack—may be your path to bulletproof running legs. Want stronger, more injury-resistant hamstrings? Perhaps, in addition to traditional strength work, you should do more walking—especially brisk walking…particularly uphill. That’s right: One of the big benefits of hiking is stronger hamstrings. Walking, experts say, uses hamstrings more strongly than does running.

As the U.S. tries to stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus, runners need to do their part. Let’s keep our distance for a while. During a global pandemic that has closed gyms, exercise studios, pools, and even ski slopes, running is still an accessible and a safe way to exercise. Thank goodness. But if

Practice holding two seemingly incompatible emotions at the same time and balancing them, to break out of feeling like a situation is all-or-nothing. Editor’s Note: This is part of a series that explores the psychology of “rebounding” from setbacks in life, and provides four mental skills that you can use to help sharpen your response

Strava’s new feature leverages its vast database to automatically create runable loops that match your criteria. This week, Strava rolled out a new feature that creates automated routes from any location on earth. While its full usefulness will have to wait until we can travel again, Summit subscribers can discover routes from their current location,

In a survey of more than 4,000 athletes from six different continents, 78 percent of athletes said the Olympic Games should be postponed. But that doesn’t make the uncertain path forward any easier to navigate. For world champions and Olympic hopefuls alike, some clarity has finally come regarding the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo,

If there’s one group that’s loving all extra at-home time, it’s working moms with young children. Just kidding, it’s dogs. With social distancing and shelter-in-place orders throughout the country to stop the spread of the coronavirus, humans are home and their furry friends are just loving the extra quality time. Women’s Running Senior Writer Erin

Injuries are often the sum of all stress placed on the body. Athletes tend to think of injuries as isolated incidents: A two-hour long run equals knee pain or cross-training in the weight room is to blame for an achy back. But injuries are often the sum of all stress placed on the body. According

The ballooned outside skin is your body’s way of preventing infection. A blister forms because you’ve ruptured cell tissue and released plasma (the fluid in a blister), and the ballooned outside skin is your body’s way of preventing infection. To Pop or Not to Pop? If you pop a blister, you risk infection. If you

An easy, common-sense approach to finding your max heart rate without a laboratory stress test. Never has so much been given to so many. Smart watches, smart phones, and smart apps produce reams of valuable intelligence. People have so much more data than ever before at their fingertips to use—if they are smart enough to

Although each state and county is going to have slightly varying ordinances around slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus, the special White House task force is continuing to hone in on guidelines for social distancing with the hopes to slow the spread in 15 days. The latest update includes working from home if possible,

12 of the best social media accounts offering free at-home fitness services and workouts to keep you sane and active during COVID-19 pandemic. As the country is being asked to put social lives on pause to stop the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), we seem to be collectively leaning even harder into social media as

Arch pain could be caused by something as simple as your running shoes, but there are other factors that could make finding a solution more complicated. Arch pain during running is often a combination of multiple factors: Lack of arch support, impaired muscular control of the lower extremity, a dysfunctional pronation pattern, impaired neural mobility,

COVID-19 Update Dear Women’s Running reader, With the cancellation of events across the globe due to the COVID-19 pandemic we wanted to provide an update to the Women’s Running community about our plans for the coming weeks and months as it relates to our collective safety and our ongoing coverage. Our Safety Women’s Running is

Here’s how to build a better nap. We’ve all been there—passed out on the couch after a long ride, drool dripping from the corner of the mouth. Few things are more satisfying than a nap after a long, hard workout. It’s easy to assume simple fatigue is the sole reason we conk out, but there’s

This fun, easy method for recording how each workout feels can help you track training patterns, avoid overtraining, and reach your peak. When she was in high school, Lyndy Davis realized that instead of writing lengthy descriptions in her training log about how she felt during each training run, she could simply color-code her runs

Don’t rush to the ER the second you feel flu-like symptoms. Here’s what experts recommend to do, instead. With the ever-increasing concerns about the impact of COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, we’ve seen a sharp rise in the country’s response to help prevent the spread of the virus. And while there have been plenty of conversations around

The “pain in the butt” hamstring strain presents difficulties that are different from those posed by lower hamstring strains. A hamstring injury higher up on your leg, otherwise known as a proximal hamstring strain, is characterized by discomfort in the gluteus muscle where the hamstring originates, especially during the push-off phase of running and exercise.

Exercise physiologist David Nieman has spent the last 40 years studying links between exercise and immunity. It’s not a new field. But with the increasing rate of race cancellations and general concern around the global COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, plenty of runners have found themselves wondering whether their intense training is helping, or hurting, their health.

Other big events have been postponed or canned because of the coronavirus, but officials at the Boston Marathon haven’t announced if the 124-year-old race will go on. After Boston officials announced on Monday that the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade is canceled due to concerns about spreading the coronavirus, many runners wondered if it might

Injuries rarely happen at convenient times. When aches, pains, and injuries strike when you’re away from professional help, turn to these three effective self-treatments. 1. Compression This is best used when you experience an acute injury, like an ankle sprain, that begins to swell instantly. Swelling makes the injured area weaker due to neuromuscular inhibition—in