Can you keep running as you get older? Absolutely. Research consistently shows that runners can maintain high levels of fitness, performance, and health well into their 60s, 70s, and beyond. AND you are never too old to go out and walk or even run. While aging affects muscle mass, recovery, running economy, and aerobic capacity, many of the changes we associate with "getting old" are actually related to inactivity, loss of strength, inadequate recovery, and poor training habi

Can Your Body Handle a Carbon-Plated Running Shoe? Carbon-plated running shoes, often called "super shoes," have changed the running world. Over the last several years it is not just carbon that makes a shoe "super" but other parts of the shoe such as the performance foam and nylon plates put shoes in the super shoe category. Nearly every major shoe company now has a super shoe model, and runners are no longer using them only on race day. Many athletes are using them for wo

In my PT clinics we always know when a big race is coming up because one or two weeks before race day the phone is ringing off the hook. Pain or small injuries that could be ignored when mileage was low start to get louder and more difficult to run through. Why does this happen? Training Fatigue Most of the time our clients try to pin point the one thing they did that caused the injury, but it is usually not from one single workout - it is overall training fatigue. During the