{"id":48,"date":"2014-03-17T20:01:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T20:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2014-10-18T13:28:48","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T13:28:48","slug":"improved-cycling-and-running-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"Improved Cycling and Running Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmmmmmmmm!!! \u00a0Don&#8217;t we all want to do something better? \u00a0Is it possible to try so hard you actually get in your own way??? \u00a0Maybe it would be better to slow down a bit and be a little more supple and sensory in what we&#8217;re doing. \u00a0When we are say, running or riding, is it all about the heart rate or the power out put or speed? \u00a0Maybe yes, maybe no. \u00a0Consider this: have you ever had a little twinge of back pain, knee pain, hamstring pain, or calf pain and finish your workout to find that you can&#8217;t walk the next day? \u00a0Why were you able to keep going? Why didn&#8217;t something let you know it could end up like that? \u00a0We often train at uncomfortable levels for long periods of time without any consequence. \u00a0But, sometimes it&#8217;s not like that. \u00a0Could it be that we have dulled our ability to sense ourselves in what we do because it has become a habit? \u00a0Have we gotten in the habit of setting our sites on a time\/wattage\/speed\/podium placement\/the person ahead of us and lost site of our own selves? \u00a0Have we focused outside of ourselves so much that we have forgotten how to listen? \u00a0Is it possible to back up and listen and find out that hmmmmmm maybe that hamstring pain is actually related to the fact that our low back muscles are actually still pulling that pelvis in the other direction? \u00a0How could this be???? \u00a0Is it possible that we quit listening to the back muscles a long time ago? \u00a0Now we have a nagging hamstring pain that won&#8217;t allow a solid bike ride more than an hour or a run more than 5 miles. \u00a0Is it a system wide focus on something outside yourself that is counter productive???? \u00a0You can find ease in yourself. \u00a0But&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;you must listen first and then choose!! \u00a0Find the ease and choose it!!! \u00a0Join me in class at CasaBagus!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmmmmmmmm!!! \u00a0Don&#8217;t we all want to do something better? \u00a0Is it possible to try so hard you actually get in your own way??? \u00a0Maybe it would be better to slow down a bit and be a little more supple and sensory in what we&#8217;re doing. \u00a0When we are say, running or riding, is it all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fmb4-M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}