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functional fitness, strength training, and flexibility
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Stregth Training and Functional Fitness with a Warrior's Attitude
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Total Body Transformation Training BlogA journey about training the entire body to acheive peak fitness and health. Whole body training isn't about body building, toning or running a marathon per se. It's about teaching the body to optimize and balance strength, speed, and strength-endurance. And it's about developing an attitude that is all to lacking in the West around hard work, effort, and the meaning of the journey. Saturday, February 21, 2004Psychology of Marathon RunningIt shouldn't come as a surprise that running a first marathon is 50% physical and 80% mental -- or there abouts. That the human body is capable of moving 26.2 miles at once isn't in question. The issue is ourselves. The training, prep, and aniticipation amount to each individual needing to attack their fears while getting ready and then dealing with the emotion and physical drains during the actual event. It certainly isn't impossible, it's just that like any new thing you aren't exactly sure how you will respond.The University of Pittsburgh has published a short article on the Psychology of Running a Marathon. It goes over the usual need for a plan and talks about some common associative and disassociative techniques to get you through the run.
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