Couch 2 5k Week 6: Lengthen Those Dashes! Part 2
🏃♂️Lengthen Those Dashes! Part 2 🏃♀️ Our 6th installment of this blog series focuses on.. ( drum roll please 🥁 ) increasing the duration of your dashes! This past week we talked about increasing the frequency of your higher intensity bouts. In English, this means we talked about you increasing your pace to a jog […]
Couch 2 5k Week 4: Add a Dash!
Couch to 5k Week 4: Add a Dash! Here we are at the 4th week of your program! Hopefully you have been able to get off the couch and outside or on the treadmill for your walks, you are walking for a longer duration at least once a week, and you have been able to […]
Couch 2 5k Week 3 : Leap Into Longer Walks
Happy Leap Year! Couch to 5k Week 3: Start the Long Walk Leap Year 2020 gives us one extra day in February to get more things into our lives, to our benefit ! We hope you are two weeks into your program and you have been able to get off the couch and LEAP outside or […]
Couch 2 5k Week 2: Start the Long Walk
For Week 2 of BeneFIT Physical Therapy’s “Couch 2 5k” Series, Brian Ireland, PT, DPT, OCS, Cert MDT, CSCS, CKPT, FMSC, TPI , owner and physical therapist of BeneFIT PT in Chester and Bridgewater, NJ, wanted to share personally how he increases walk time frequencies. Take a sneak peek into Doctor of Physical Therapy Brian […]
Couch 2 5k: Week 1: Start Walking
This week as part of BeneFIT Physical Therapy’s “Couch 2 5k” series we are going to talk about something basic, but very important nonetheless: WALKING. Hopefully you have been able to head over to a local running store to purchase new shoes if needed. If you are not sure if need new kicks take a […]
