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Struggle with the "dreadmill"? Here are some great workouts to consider when stuck inside.

Five Sanity Saving Treadmill Workouts (+ An Instagram Contest!) - another mother runner Five Sanity Saving treadmill workouts include intervals, strength training, incorporating your music and various race paces.

Many of our clients have a history of (low) back pain, and this article does a fantastic job exploring the research surrounding the different treatment modalities.

If nothing else, the takeaway is that moving is probably the most important thing you can do for back pain. Check out the "McGill Three" back exercises, and consider some of the active therapies/less invasive options before surgery/opioids.

"We need make our default choices more back- (and health-) friendly. There’s a pretty simple adage public health officials stick to: Make it easy for people to stay healthy, and make it hard for them to get sick."

A comprehensive guide to the new science of treating lower back pain A review of 80-plus studies upends the conventional wisdom.

I was talking to a client earlier in the week about why I start many clients on effort-based training and ask them to complete many of their training runs without their watches. I referenced what is probably Alex Hutchinson's last article for Runner's World, which touches on this briefly in his #3 pillar of running wisdom: The best technology for tracking and guiding your runs is the device between your ears.

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He writes: "I also think running coach Steve Magness had a point when he wrote that running with GPS 'slackens the bond between perception and action.' Instead of speeding up or slowing down based on how you feel, you do it based on the feedback from a device that’s providing an imperfect estimation of how you feel. Do that enough, and eventually you may become less able to detect the subtle differences in feel that can be the margin between an okay run and a great one.

This isn’t a Luddite argument to smash your machines. There are times when a GPS device can be a great training aid, like if you’re doing a long tempo run alone on an unfamiliar course. And it can be a lot of fun to sift through the mountains of data collected by high-end watches and fitness monitors. But ultimately, you need to make sure you’re also spending enough time monitoring the signals from your own body to able to interpret them correctly when it counts."

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I challenge you to leave your technology at home on your next run outside and really pay attention to how you *feel*.

The Seven Pillars of Running Wisdom After five years of Sweat Science, a summing-up of what really matters.