Improving Muscle Tension for Faster, More Efficient Running

Improving Muscle Tension for Faster, More Efficient Running

Our last blog post touched on the “elasticity” within the lower legs, and how this spring-like mechanism acts like a coil to propel you forward. The tendons in your lower legs and feet (such as your achilles and plantar fascia) store energy when your foot strikes the...
Lower Body Strength Training to Build Speed and Injury Resistance

Lower Body Strength Training to Build Speed and Injury Resistance

In our previous blog post, we suggested upper body exercises focusing on the core for stability and the shoulders for mobility and injury prevention. Let’s now talk about lower body strength. Even though we spend the majority of our time during triathlon on our...
Krista Schultz Demonstrates the Mountain Climber Exercise

Krista Schultz Demonstrates the Mountain Climber Exercise

The mountain climber is a warm-up (dynamic) plus core stability exercise for opening up the hip musculature. Throughout this entire exercise you are working the deep abdominal and low back stabilizers. Coach Krista Schultz demonstrates.