This week we speak with Angelina Ramos, women’s cross-country/track & field distance and middle-distance coach for Saginaw Valley State University (SVSU). Angelina has been training a group of eighteen athletes since being hired by SVSU in 2015 to revive the women’s distance program. The team had just come off of a bad year: SVSU had […]
Lisa Marshall is an award-winning health and medical science journalist whose work has taken her to parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. An avid runner, she lives in the foothills west of Boulder with her husband and two children, and has completed a remarkable ten marathons to date. Here she reflects on her experiences […]
Terry is a Brit who now calls Estes Park, Colorado his home. He has been an endurance runner for nearly 35 years, running 100 yards and 220 yards on the track back in his school days. Terry and his wife Jacqueline came to Colorado in 2006 with the dream of setting up Active at Altitude, […]
Melissa Roberts is an Estes Park native, and has helped hundreds of people overcome chronic health issues as a acupuncturist in Estes since 2001. In her free time, Melissa is an endurance athlete, and uses Rocky Mountain National Park as her playground for training for marathons and triathlons. She also enjoys spending time with her […]
We’ve covered visualization and racing, and how it can help you be a better, stronger, more confident athlete, but did you know visualization can also help you succeed in your everyday life? While the guided imagery in the activacuity app is geared towards running, you can use the same techniques in a variety of situations. […]
Visualization is forming images in your mind to help you accomplish your goals. In theory, it sounds great – you imagine yourself doing something and BAM! You get it done. But does it really work? While visualization may seem like new-age hype, there’s plenty of scientific evidence and research that supports its effectiveness. Your brain on visualization […]
If you see it, you can do it. Elite athletes – from Billie Jean King to Muhammed Ali – have used visualization as part of their training for decades – picturing entire performances in their minds in vivid detail. But it’s not just the elites who can benefit from visualization; everyday runners, athletes, and even the casual fitness dabbler can […]
We can learn a huge amount about positive reinforcement from elite athletes. They are, or have been, faced with demons just like the rest of us – after all they are human too, even if their performances may seem superhuman to us! One of the many benefits that top level athletes have is that they […]
As athletes, we spend a ton of time training physically. It feels great, well most of the time, and we feel bad when we’re not training! We follow training programs to the letter, getting concerned if we have missed one session or workout, and wonder if this will impact our performance come race day. Ever […]
