Posted by Danny Dreyer on Thu Jan 19th, 2012, 6 comments
A day at the gym with Chi in mind: treadmill, spin bike, t'ai chi, and swimming.
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Posted by Danny Dreyer on Wed Jan 11th, 2012, 9 comments
Here’s a review on a fairly new shoe to the minimalist family. I’d like to preface this review with why I like the overall concept of the shoe ...
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Posted by Danny Dreyer on Thu Aug 4th, 2011, 7 comments
Running barefoot will strengthen the intrinsic muscles of your feet, making them more stable ... But, it won’t somehow automatically undo all your worst movement habits or change them for the better ...
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Posted by Danny Dreyer on Wed Apr 20th, 2011, 8 comments
Well, I'm back home again (from Boston), letting the dust settle a bit. It was quite a whirlwind week, last week. We had a great crew of ChiRunners helping out at the ChiRunning booth on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
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Posted by Danny Dreyer on Mon Dec 6th, 2010, 2 comments
Many people are interested in how Katherine and I keep healthy during the winter. We have some reliable routines and preventive measures that help keep colds and flu at bay and keep us feeling positive ...
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Posted by Danny Dreyer on Tue Nov 2nd, 2010, 4 comments
I always like it when some of the technique principles of Chi Running show up in the national news. Here’s a recent article appearing in the New Yorker about Alberto Salazar’s attempt at making a good runner (Dathan Ritzenheim – aka “Ritz”) an even better one. Here are a few of the “radical” changes Salazar [...]
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Posted by Danny Dreyer on Tue Sep 21st, 2010, 13 comments
After posting the blog about running the AF Marathon, I thought it might be informative for marathoners and marathon hopefuls to hear how I approach an event like this and what I did before, during and after the event to make it such an enjoyable event. My Race-specific Marathon Training Program Asheville is a hilly [...]
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Posted by Danny Dreyer on Sun Sep 19th, 2010, 2 comments
It all started when we decided to have a Chi Running booth at the 115th running of the Boston Marathon in 2011. I figured, “Well, if I’m going to be there working anyway, I might as well be running in the race.” So, I started looking for a race to run as a qualifier for [...]
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Posted by Danny Dreyer on Fri Aug 13th, 2010, 9 comments
If you’ve been following the boom in #barefoot running over the past couple of years, you might have suspected (and rightly so) that it has been at least partially responsible for the current shift in running shoe design. What I’d like to say about that is that it’s not about the shoes…or lack thereof. Some [...]
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Posted by Danny Dreyer on Tue May 18th, 2010, 5 comments
We’ve got some exciting news. There’s an article about Chi Running in USAToday 5/18/2010. Go to this link and you can see the article and a video they did as well. It is really exciting to get this coverage in the national media. Also, tonight on HBO at 10pm ET will be a program on [...]
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