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Prime Your Muscles

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

We’ve talked about the importance about warming up before our races and I think that we can all agree that you absolutely must warmup before any run. But, have you paid attention to something I’ve mentioned every now and then? The title of the post says it all. Before we sprint we must also prime [...]

Exercises to Prevent Shin Splints

Monday, May 14th, 2007

Are you suffering from shin splints? Most of you probably are. If so, Coach Sires found a website which details a lot of exercises that you need to perform. The site goes on to claim that if you perform these exercises regularly, you will not get shin splints at all! Here are some of the [...]

400m Race Strategy

Friday, March 16th, 2007

The 400m is the race that will define you as an athlete. There is no other race that is tougher or more fun than the 400m. It is a race where you can’t really sprint 100% the entire way, but you won’t be able to save anything either. Here I will present our team’s strategy [...]