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If Orthotics Work, Use Them.  Just Don’t Ask Why. Benno M. Nigg has become a leading researcher on orthotics — those shoe inserts that many athletes use to try to prevent injuries.

USAT Mideast Region Winter 2011 Newsletter

Does Stretching Before Running Prevent Injury? Should you stretch before you run?

Are You Coachable? I once took a course in which the seminar leader, Larry, asked each person present to make a commitment to be coachable.

Your Muscles, Your Long Runs What happens to muscles when we run long?

Secrets of Elite Athletes My son, Stefan, was running in a half marathon in Philadelphia last month when he heard someone coming up behind him, breathing hard. To his surprise, it was an elite runner, Kim Smith, a blond waif from New Zealand.

Best Ways to Recover When the heat gets turned up, the LT work starts and endurance is still going, its time for all of us to make sure that we are spending time recovering!

IronMan Recovery Clearly there are a lot of opinions about how to recover from an Ironman, and clearly there are multiple highly successful means of recovering from ultra distance events like Ironmans.

Racing In The Heat As endurance athletes we face many obstacles in our effort to meet our goals. Training, nutrition, stretching and rest are the main concerns of our preparation.

Strength Training For several years I have been trying to get a grasp on how to best help my athletes with weight training. This is a controversial topic among elite athletes and coaches.