WARM-UP WEDNESDAY: Straight-Leg Running 🥳
This simple drill helps improve running mechanics, warms up hamstrings, and wakes up calves. Try straight-leg running before your next workout!
✨ Why runners should try it:
• Activates the posterior chain
• Encourages proper hip extension
• Reinforces an active, responsive foot strike
• Helps develop stiffness and elastic return through the ankle
• Gets your body ready for faster running
How to do it:
Keep your legs relatively straight with a slight knee bend, stay tall through your hips, and use quick, light contacts with the ground. Think tall posture + active feet + controlled rhythm.
Try 2 × 20–30 meters as part of your warm-up.
👉 Drills aren't just about warming up—they're an opportunity to practice better movement before you ask your body to run fast.
Want more tips for improving your workouts and running faster? Send a DM now!
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09/01/2026
Day 1 🍎🍉🥕🍅🫑
Getting started on this 600 grams of fruits and veggies with a tasty protein shake.
How do you plan on getting tours in today and for the rest of the month?
Tell us in the comments 🥳🎉
08/31/2026
TOMORROW🥳
Time to go shopping so you're ready to eat 600g of fruits and veggies every day.
Why 600g? Because colorful fruits and veggies provide the vitamins, minerals, fiber, antioxidants, and carbohydrates your body needs to perform, recover, and stay healthy.
For runners, this can mean:
• Better recovery
• More nutrient-dense fuel
• Improved gut health
• Support for your immune system
🌈 Make it simple: Aim for a rainbow of colors throughout the day. Add berries to breakfast, veggies to lunch, fruit for a snack, and plenty of vegetables with dinner.
Can you hit 600g every day in September?
08/30/2026
Stretchy Sunday 🏃♀️🧘♀️
Give your ankles some love! 👣
Today’s Stretch: Banded Ankle Distraction
For runners, ankle mobility matters. Limited ankle mobility can affect your stride, squat mechanics, and how efficiently you move through each step.
✨ Benefits:
• Improves ankle mobility and range of motion
• Helps improve running mechanics
• Encourages better movement patterns
• Great addition to your mobility and recovery routine
Try it:
Loop a resistance band around the front of your foot and anchor the other end. Create gentle tension and work through your available ankle range of motion. Keep it controlled—this should feel like a gentle mobilization, not a painful stretch.
⏱️ Try 30–60 seconds per side and repeat 2–3 times.
Move better. Run better. Recover better.
What’s your favorite mobility exercise for runners?
08/29/2026
Spring PR Training Starts Now 🌸🏃♀️
Now’s the time!
Start prepping now for a BIG spring PR! 💥
We’re accepting new clients and can’t wait to help you reach your race-day goals.
Whether it’s your first 5K, your 10th 10K, or your 50th marathon, a little coaching can go a long way.
🏃♀️ Get your questions answered—even the ones you think are silly.
📅 Workouts adjusted when life happens, without wondering whether to double up or which workout matters most.
🎯 A plan built around YOU, your goals, and your race.
Ready to stop guessing and start training with purpose?
Have questions? Want to get started and ROCK your spring race?
📩 SEND A DM NOW! 🥳
08/27/2026
It's almost the weekend!
Come get some end of the week miles with us and catch the sunrise. 😁
See you Friday at 6:30 to walk or run some weekend starting miles then let's hang out post run with some good company and tasty treats from .
We promise, free parking, boardwalk views and 3 to 5 mile routes will get your Friday started right.
08/26/2026
The September Challenge is here 🥳
Get ready to eat 600g of fruits and veggies every day.
Why 600g? Because colorful fruits and veggies provide the vitamins, minerals, fiber, antioxidants, and carbohydrates your body needs to perform, recover, and stay healthy.
For runners, this can mean:
• Better recovery
• More nutrient-dense fuel
• Improved gut health
• Support for your immune system
🌈 Make it simple: Aim for a rainbow of colors throughout the day. Add berries to breakfast, veggies to lunch, fruit for a snack, and plenty of vegetables with dinner.
Can you hit 600g every day in September?
08/24/2026
Happy National Waffle Day! 🧇🏃♀️
Good training starts with good fuel—and sometimes that fuel comes in waffle form.
Whether you’re enjoying a breakfast waffle, reaching for a performance waffle before a long run, or noshing afterwards, carbohydrates can help fuel your miles and replenish energy afterward.
Run hard. Fuel well. Eat the waffle. 😋
Because life is too short to skip the waffles!
08/23/2026
Went running in the Swiss Alps.
Thought you'd like to see it.
Want to go on a running adventure of your own?
Let us help you get ready to tackle the trails, climbs and descents.
Tell us where you'd go in the comments and send a DM to get started today! 🥳
08/20/2026
Friday Miles and Smiles!
Come join us tomorrow to get your weekend miles rolling.
Leave from 0630 for 3 to 5 miles of beautiful boardwalk fun. Free parking and tasty post run treats can't be beat.
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