Enoksen‚ Eystein. "The Effect of High vs. Low Intensity Training on Aerobic Capacity in Well-Trained Male Middle Distance Runners." Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. 25.3 (2011): n. page. Print. Valimaki‚ T. "Decreased Training Volume and Increased Carbohydrate Intake Increases Oxidized LDL Levels." Sports Med. 33. (2012): 291-296. Print. Bertuzzi‚ Romulo. "Bioenergetics and Neuromuscular Determinants of the Time to Exhaustion at Velocity Corresponding to VO2 Max in Recreational Long-Distance
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01OCTOBER13 Born to Run; Christopher McDougall Summary Are we as humans truly “born to run”? If this is true‚ why do we need orthotics‚ knee supports‚ fish oils/supplements‚ ice packs‚ and top of the line name brand running shoes? Christopher McDougall asks exactly that in his journey to find the answer to these questions. His journey begins with his own simple question: “Why does my foot hurt?” Now‚ I’m sure this is a question we all have when it comes to running. Whether it’s your feet‚
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English Red Lightning Minimalist Running Have you ever wondered what it would be like to run barefoot? 50‚000 years ago‚ without the bow and arrow or any other crude weapons; humans were the weaklings of the animal kingdom. They had an extremely difficult time finding food and were on the track to extinction. Then‚ they came up with a solution: to run down their prey. The type of hunting they developed was called persistence hunting. After that‚ humans ran hundreds of miles a week to hunt
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Do you have a favorite sport? My favorite sport is running track. The reason why it’s my favorite sport is because I love running. Running takes my mind off of things like my mind goes blank of all the crap that is going on I only think about the miles I run and how fast I run them. I started running when I was in 9th grade because I broke my wrist in collar bone. We were doing this tuck and roll exercise and I did it right the first time but the second time I didn’t roll and hit my collar bone
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Currently‚ my endurance has improved since Late September‚ however it has not improved to the point that I wanted it to be before basketball. I have somewhat followed my goal of trying to run at the track‚ but I have been unable to run or workout 4-6 times a week. From where I was at on September 30th I have improved and compared to this time last year I am in much better shape than I was at the start of basketball season last year. One reason why I may have not reach this goal was setting the bar
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In his memoir “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running‚” Haruki Murakami details his life as a runner. Sure he also ventures into his life as a club owner and his evolution as a writer but foremost it’s a book about running. Even though it’s the first running book I read‚ all these years later I still consider it my favorite. When I revisited Murakami’s book for the first time in a decade‚ I wondered if my impression would change. After all‚ I read countless other running books‚ finished dozens
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My First Marathon By the time I entered Tsinghua University in 2006‚ my life had been occupied by boring studying for several years. There were many things that I never believed I could do like being a monitor of class‚ getting into a fancy relationship or dancing on the stage. If those were things I had still imagined‚ marathon was one thing that I had never imagined. A distance of 42.195 kilometers (about 26.4 miles) was not kidding. In the first month I went to Tsinghua‚ the student union
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In Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift‚ Gulliver’s adventures and experiences satirize many aspects of human nature. Pride and arrogance are reoccurring themes that make up the most of Swift’s satire. While pride and arrogance is currently demonstrated by athletes such as Usain Bolt‚ it is also show by the characters in Gulliver’s Travels. Politics earn Swift’s greatest critical disapprobation. Through his supposed character’s observations‚ Swift levels an indifferent screed against the pettiness
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“Running is the greatest metaphor for life‚ because you get out of it what you put into it.” Oprah Winfrey came up with this empowering quote that actually holds true to running. Over the past few years there has been a peak of people starting to call themselves runners. It has been proven by researchers that even doing a minimum amount of running can potentially provide several health benefits. From preventing the common cold to helping someone fit into their jeans two sizes too small‚ running
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In "What is the Safest Sprint Starting Position for American Football Players[‚]” medical professionals Bruno Bonnechere‚ Benoit Beyer‚ Marcel Rooze and Jan Serge Van Sint‚ provide information on how starting sprint positions can affect American football players. Bonnechere et al. support their claims by collecting measurements of the head‚ trunk‚ and field-of-view of 2-‚ 3-‚ and 4-point positions using twenty-five young males Out of the twenty-five participants‚ thirteen were used as the control
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