Posts Tagged ‘Heart Rate Monitors’

Guest Post: The Blessing in Disguise Injury

Thursday, September 17th, 2009
Hello Carrots ‘N’ Cake readers! I’m Dori from Dori’s Shiny Blog . Back in March, Tina put out a call for guest posters and I emailed her right away (I am a big fan!) told her I would love to do a guest post. And then 6 months went by, life got in the way, my blog got a makeover, and now here I am. At that time, I planned to do this post on everything I knew about spinning – attire, clip in shoes, heart rate monitors, instructors, music and how I went from despising it from being add

To Run Better, Start by Ditching Your Nikes

Friday, July 10th, 2009
Before the Nikes, before the breathable, antimicrobial running shorts, before the personal fitness coaches, heart rate monitors, wrist-mounted GPS and subscriptions to Runner’s World , you were a runner. And, like all children, you ran barefoot. Now, a small but growing body of research suggests that barefoot is the way adults should run, too. So, many runners have been shucking off the high-tech trainers in favor of naked feet — or minimalist footwear like Nike Free , the Newton All-Weat