Allen Curreri

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Allen Curreri explores the impact of mindfulness on personal training.
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Being at the gym and practicing mindfulness sound like two things from two different worlds. However, teaching mindfulness to participants at the gym can help them better understand how their body is performing and be able to give proper feedback to trainers. Too often trainers are faced ...

Allen Curreri explores the place of mindfulness in education.
Allen Curreri, Neighbor
For nearly 40 years, Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBI) have been researched, developed, supported, and improved. Throughout the last several decades, MBI has progressively moved through health care, mental health, and education.
In 1979, Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn developed mindfulness-based stress reduction techniques; by 1992, mindfulness had been used to develop cognitive therapy or MBCT. In the early 2000s, ...

Allen Curreri debunks myths about running injuries.

Allen Curreri discusses mindfulness and its impact on suicidal thoughts.

Allen Curreri provides some key "don'ts" for running in cold weather.

Allen Curreri lists top mindfulness apps for 2019.

Allen Curreri explores top texts on mindfulness.

Allen Curreri discusses common running injuries

In an ideal world, every step of your run would be pain-free, and nothing would limit your distance or speed. Unfortunately, the majority of runners, professional and amateur, deal with some type of pain during their runs. Most experience only mild disturbances such as a tight hamstring or a slight twinge in the knee which goes away once the run is over and doesn’t persist into every succeeding workout. The majority of injuries aren’t severe enough to warrant taking time off from training. Ho...

Allen Curreri lists more common running myths.

Allen Curreri provides a brief history of mindfulness.

Runners get a lot of flack about their morning miles. Ask any regular jogger, and they can probably recite the well-intentioned lecture that concerned friends, family members, and barely-there work acquaintances like to send their way verbatim. These critics – who probably haven’t laced up their running shoes for more than a brisk power walk in years – typically have a litany of the same prodding concerns:
Haven’t you heard that running is bad for your joints?
Why do you do this regularly – i...

We live in a time of imagination and possibility – or at least, that’s how it seems from the waiting room. Innovations in medical tech have given doctors and patients alike opportunities that they never could have dreamed of a decade or two ago, much less experienced firsthand. But now, those imaginings are tactile; an anxious young doctor can use virtual reality to practice imparting bad news to a patient’s family member, or develop their medical empathy by experiencing the physical struggle...

Allen Curreri points out a few running myths that amateur and professional athletes can safely ignore.