A coach's snow shoveling safety plan: a five-minute warm-up, hip-hinge technique, push-don't-lift pacing for your heart, and the kit that saves backs.
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The lanes go quiet before the questions do. By the middle of October the big road races have either just finished or are sitting one hard taper away, the evening air has a bite, and my inbox fills with the same photo: a kneecap, a little puffiness, and a caption that says “should I just buy a sleeve?” My team and I keep a clipboard for this week. Not a diagnosis sheet. A shopping sheet. The difference matters more than the neoprene. A knee sleeve, a patellar strap, and a brace with stays are three different tools that happen to…
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Nobody warned me that 2026 would be the year everyone I know became a walker. My Tuesday-morning client roster includes a retired firefighter doing Japanese walking intervals, two moms training for an October half marathon walk, and my own mother, who texts me her step count like it’s a stock portfolio. Search interest in walking workouts jumped almost three thousand percent last year, and my coaching inbox finally reflects it: the number one question I get is no longer about macros or heart rate zones. It’s about shoes. I get it. When walking becomes your actual workout — not just…
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September has a rhythm to it. The runners I coach start ramping mileage for fall half marathons, teachers and nurses come back from summer break to jobs that have them on their feet for ten hours straight, and almost like clockwork, somebody texts me the same sentence: “My heel hurts when I get out of bed — it goes away after a few steps, so it’s probably nothing, right?” I used to say “probably.” I don’t anymore. Because that little stab — the one that greets your first ten steps of the day and then politely disappears — is one…