Training Tips

Plenty of attention goes to what you eat before a run and almost none to what comes after. The hour afterward is where the work sticks: food repairs the micro-tears in your muscles, puts back the electrolytes and minerals you sweated out, and refills the glycogen your liver and legs just spent. Protein and carbohydrate together beat anything fancy.

A percussive massager sends short bursts of energy into muscle tissue with rapid-fire pulses. The extra blood flow eases soreness you already have and can head off the delayed soreness that arrives two days after a hard effort. Vibration therapy also helps clear lactic acid, a familiar culprit behind heavy legs. Try a Theragun in either store.

A wide foot forced into a standard shoe is behind a lot of blisters, numb toes, and bruised nails. Width is not a sizing compromise, it is a different shoe, and we stock wide and extra-wide across every brand we carry. Room through the forefoot, support that stays under the arch, and a toe box your foot can spread into as it lands.