First Steps – Choosing Running Shoes

June 5, 2011

While it’s much easier to just go out and buy the most popular brands of shoes, if you’re serious about running, you will want to buy specific running shoes to prevent injury and allow you to reach your full potential.

There are a lot of things to consider when buying your first pair of running shoes. The arch of your foot and how your foot distributes weight when it hits the ground are part of these deciding factors. Specialty shops often perform tests for you to help you determine foot type and the appropriate shoe.

TheRunningAdvisor.com has seven steps to finding the right shoe for you. The list is great, and is very helpful for understanding foot and gait types (and the subsequent shoes to buy for them). Photo: Fey Ilyas

How to Choose A Running Shoe | TheRunningAdvisor.com

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Christopher McDougall: Are we born to run?

April 19, 2011

You might not think it now, but you were made to run. Christopher McDougall, author of Born to Run, explores an interesting link between running and ancient human survival in the following TED Talk. McDougall discusses prehistoric reasons for the human desire to run. Why is it that 64 year old men and women are running just as fast as when they were 19? How were humans able to hunt before the development of weapons? Find out in this video!

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How to Become a Runner Without Killing Yourself

April 17, 2011

Running is intimidating. For the inexperienced, running is the most scorned form of exercise. Despite the typical apprehension, the benefits of running are too extensive to ignore. So how does the average person become a runner without the mental and physical hurdles? A popular article on coolrunning.com and their Couch to 5k Running Plan has the [...]

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Superstition: Keep your pants on, seriously

August 8, 2010
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A study published in a prominent scientific journal, Psychological Science ,has some interesting revelations about the lengths that athletes will pursue to ensure a stronger performance. Experiments show that subjects did display greater feelings of confidence and were more inclined to persevere in tough instances. Superstitions can improve performance by inspiring hope in a person’s [...]

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Get Active — The first in seven steps to improved health

July 25, 2010
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The American Heart Association’s new My Life Check website lists seven steps with the goal of incrementally increasing individual public health. Our favorite is “Get Active.” Americans with full-time jobs or class schedules — or in many cases, both — simply have trouble finding time for exercise. Couple that with the myriad of other options [...]

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Dash of Heart Site Launch!

July 18, 2010
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Today is the first day of the site launch, and we are very excited for the road ahead of us. Dash of Heart is a non-profit organization that advocates proper nutrition and an active lifestyle to combat heart disease. Our mission is to increase the quality of public health by providing attention, raising awareness, and [...]

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