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Thursday, June 5, 2014

The One Exercise That Just Might Change Your Running Forever

The One Exercise That Just Might Change Your Running Forever
What if all it took to improve your running immeasurably was a few minutes marching in place?
In a 2011 New York Times Magazine feature, Christopher McDougall, author of Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Super Athletes and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen experimented with just that.
"I was leafing through the back of an out-of-print book, a collection of runners' biographies called 'The Five Kings of Distance,' when I came across a three-page essay from 1908 titled 'W. G. George's Own Account From the 100-Up Exercise,'" he writes. "According to legend, this single drill turned a 16 year old with almost no running experience into the foremost racer of his day."  read more

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TOPFIT Daily Activities --- Back Workout and Heavy Bag
I tried to take advantage of my free time again today and managed to do a workout of weighted chinups, DB rows, bodyweight pullups, and hanging scapular depression/retraction.  Later I spent 30 mins on the heavy bag.

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