[am4show not_have=’p1;’]
[/am4show]
[am4guest]
[/am4guest]
Have feedback on our December issue? Feel free to CONTACT US!
If you missed last month’s issue, check it out HERE!
Letter from the Editor, December 2020
Letter from the Editor, December 2020 Hello Subscribers, and welcome to the Dwcember 2020 edition of The Hurdle Magazine. In this month's issue, I wrote four articles, and freelance writer Melinda Burris wrote two. In my first article, "Cycle Arms, Injuries, and Covid Blues," I discuss the progress of my athlete, Brandon Johnson, and the...
Cycle Arms, Injuries, and the Covid Blues
Cycle Arms, Injuries, and the Covid Blues by Steve McGill This article will serve as an update on the progress my athlete Brandon Johnson has made in mastering the cycle-arms style I’ve been teaching, and I will also be discussing some of the obstacles that we’ve been encountering along the way. In last month’s issue...
Dedication, and Learning to Lose
Dedication, and Learning to Lose by Steve McGill Ted Walters, one of my high school friends, was a teammate of mine on the track team my senior year. He too was a senior. It was his first year running track, but he was immediately really good. A natural, as they say. He ran the 800...
Getting Back Up
Getting Back Up by Steve McGill One of my favorite students this year, Ava Smith, is a very talented creative writer who also rides horses competitively. Not race horses, but show horses. She spends the majority of her time away from school at the barn, where she trains and also does a variety of everyday...
Ladder Workout for 400m Hurdlers
Ladder Workout for 400m Hurdlers by Steve McGill For the long hurdler, December is still a time of conditioning, but it is also a time to start putting speed into the mix in order to prepare for the stride pattern work that will be a staple in training toward the end of the indoor season....
Why Athletes Should Include Winter Vegetables in Their Diet
Why Athletes Should Include Winter Vegetables in Their Diet by Melinda Burris Though we often tend to equate vegetables with the spring and summer, winter offers its own bounty of a specific type of vegetable: root vegetables. This article explores which vegetables fall into this classification and why they are an important source of the...
Weight Training Correctly and Avoiding Overuse Injuries
Weight Training Correctly and Avoiding Overuse Injuries by Melinda Burris Track and field athletes are at a higher risk of injury because they participate in a high-intensity sport that relies on rapid spurts of speed and motions that tend to lend to overuse as the same muscle groups and joints are needed to perform the...
