This is Friday, April 7, 2023.
This is a recovery day on day five of Week 4 in the RunBlogRun Spring Training for the Middle Distances.
Recovery days allow you to gain benefits from the hard days, yet many athletes and some coaches dismiss them. Then, the injuries pile up.
Movement is key for our mortal engines. It is not the fastest workouts that win the big races; it is the fine-tuning of fast workouts and very easy days, plus the supplemental work (8 sit-ups, pull-ups, push-ups, and stretching) that add up over time.
Core and pelvic girdle strength give the athlete a platform to work. Find a good conditioning coach and learn from them. I looked at the training log of a world medalist and noted all of the time spent on conditioning.
It is all about the details…
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Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys.
Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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