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Cross training to help prevent injuries.

Rowing to Recovery

Ever since my hip injuries, and subsequent surgeries to repair torn labrums and impingements, I’ve been forced to significantly modify my workouts. What that really meant was cutting back on running and focusing more on cross training and core strengthening, while still staying aerobically fit. Not an easy task for

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Posted in Core Strengthening, Cross Training

Staying Healthy After a Hip Scope

I’ve been asked lately if I could share some tips for staying healthy and injury free after a hip scope – in my case, two hip scopes. Let me offer these three useful words: Moderation. Variety. Vigilance. Since my arthroscopic surgeries to repair pincer impingements and labrum tears in 2011

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Posted in Core Strengthening, Cross Training, Hip Labral Tears, My Story, Physical Therapy, Running

Another Blog Birthday

My little blog is now 2 years old, as of May 24th, actually. I haven’t been tending to it too much lately. Work, grad school and prolonged dental work have occupied a great deal of my time – along with half-marathon training. Yes, I did say a half marathon, didn’t

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Posted in Core Strengthening, Cross Training, Hip Labral Tears, My Story, Physical Therapy, Running

Not Just for Runners

My husband is in France for part of this week, riding a portion of the famous Tour de France race course (as part of a sub race). He is doing Stage 19 – the Alps! There are 21 stages in this grueling race, which covers 3,450.5 kilometers, or 2,058 miles, and

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The Next Best Thing

Serious runners sidelined by injuries can identify with the frustration and disappointment of having to find other activities to fill the void during their convalescence. Even as I cross-train, while biding my time before arthroscopic hip surgery next month, I’ve found nothing else, really, that could replicate the “runner’s high”

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Welcome

Most athletes have experienced a “second wind,” that jolt of energy and strength that allows us, enervated and dispirited, to carry on. But sometimes our bodies cannot recover on their own – we need outside help so we can catch our “third wind.”

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