What are your favorite running items?
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If you want to be a better runner, chances are pretty good you're always on the hunt for:
WeeViews Ambassador and ultrarunner Brynn Cunningham has a long list of running items she uses that can help you too.
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In Part 4 of her Favorite Running Items, Brynn offers her wear-tester intel on 5 running items that can help you get strong, be cool, and breathe easy.
This is Part 4 of my favorite running items of 2023.
For assistance in determining your own size for these running items, here are the female wear tester’s measurements:
With so much love for the Janji AFO Middle Short, I was eager to try the Janji Women’s 3” AFO-Vent Multi Short.
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The biggest difference between the two shorts is that the Multi has a full circumference of pockets around the waist.
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If you’ve read my previous favorite running gear of 2023 stories, you may have noticed that I have a home gym.
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The items are spread throughout my house plus my vehicle, allowing me to fit in mini workouts throughout the day and/or before and after runs.
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The weight vest is one piece of equipment I added in 2021, and I’ve been putting it to use more this year than ever.
If you’re really into weight vest training, you can invest in a ruck backpack and ruck weights for the sport of rucking, which offers races across the world.
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When I was growing up, my mom had ankle weights in our living room amongst a variety of exercise equipment.
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I began wearing them in high school while:
These days, I don’t run steps, ride bikes or run miles with ankle weights (perhaps just some warm-ups and warm downs).
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Instead, I mostly reserve them for:
Dr. Belisa Vranich and Brian Sabin
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Recently Runners World featured an article, Diaphragmatic Exercises: How to Strengthen Breathing Muscles, interviewing Dr. Belisa Vranich.
While the article does an excellent job touching on the importance of breath in running, I recommend diving deeper and reading the entire book. It’s a quick read—I finished it in a few days.
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As the yogis say...
In fact, the breath is EVERYTHING...when it comes to cultivating mindfulness and creating next-level focus and then applying those to your sport. Intentional breathing is also useful for:
👍One of my favorite sections of the book is a description of how to breathe for different activities or exercises, including:
The book covers running, too, plus a multitude of disciplines.
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It’s one I could read over and over and, as a yoga instructor, I use the information gained from its pages to inform my yoga classes and to guide students with breath-led movement.
From a weight vest to ankle weights to a non-exercise related weighted item...
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The Luna Weighted Cooling Blanket, a game changer for my sleep!
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😴It’s no secret getting quality sleep is one of the best things, if not the absolute most important thing, a runner (and non-runners for that matter) can do to stay healthy.
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It’s also no secret that many of us struggle with quality sleep. Maybe it’s:
When my family and I visited my in-laws a few years ago in Wisconsin, my mother-in-law showed me a weighted blanket that her friend had just made for her.
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Let’s just say that for the entire trip, I claimed that blanket...and could be found either
The following Christmas, my husband gifted me the Luna Weighted Cooling Blanket.
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