Todd Buckingham, Ph.D. | Lead Exercise Physiologist, Mary Free Bed Sports Rehabilitation Running Cadence For years, runners around the world have heard that running at 180 steps per minute (spm) is the ideal running cadence. This came from the legendary run coach, Jack Daniels (no, not that Jack Daniels…cue drinking...
Todd Buckingham, Ph.D. | Lead Exercise Physiologist, Mary Free Bed Sports Rehabilitation Strength training and injury prevention I’ve received some great feedback on my last two blog posts about strength training for endurance athletes. And I just so happened to be chatting with a friend last week and he said...
Todd Buckingham, Ph.D. | Lead Exercise Physiologist, Mary Free Bed Sports Rehabilitation Strength training for endurance athletes In my last blog post I talked about lifting weights and running. Specifically, should I run and then lift weights, or should I lift weights and then run? As a reminder, if your...
Todd Buckingham, Ph.D. | Lead Exercise Physiologist, Mary Free Bed Sports Rehabilitation Should I run then lift weights or lift weights then run? This is such a great question and one that I get all the time. Both from runners and strength athletes. The answer is a bit more nuanced...
Todd Buckingham, Ph.D. | Lead Exercise Physiologist, Mary Free Bed Sports Rehabilitation Would you rather be a Ferrari or a Prius? If you’re an endurance athlete, your answer had better be “Prius”. Why? I’m glad you asked! The Prius gets much better gas mileage than a Ferrari. As endurance...
Todd Buckingham, Ph.D. | Lead Exercise Physiologist, Mary Free Bed Sports Rehabilitation Working out more is always on the top of people’s New Year Resolutions, but what can you do to help follow through on those goals? I recently had the opportunity to talk to Stellafly’s own, Shelley Irwin...
Todd Buckingham, Ph.D. | Lead Exercise Physiologist, Mary Free Bed Sports Rehabilitation Lactate has built up a pretty bad reputation in the past. Well, I’m here to dispel that reputation and give lactate the credit it deserves…I’m the hype man lactate never knew it needed! First of all, lactate vs....
Todd Buckingham, Ph.D. | Lead Exercise Physiologist, Mary Free Bed Sports Rehabilitation Picture this: you’re running on a treadmill wearing a mask with tubes attached to it to measure your breathing. You’ve been told to run as fast and as long as you possibly can. All the while, the...
The first topic I want to cover is something that every athlete of every age and every ability level deals with – sweat. Since the mid-90s, Gatorade has been telling us just how important electrolyte replenishment is during exercise. And like the commercials show us,...
My name is Todd Buckingham and I’m a former baseball, basketball, and soccer player, and current triathlete, runner, and exercise physiologist. I went to college for 11 years and am technically a doctor (Ph.D.), although not the medical kind of doctor who helps people! Haha....