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Run With The Marine Corps!

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Add a couple of Marine Corps (or Army, etc.) running cadences to your ipod. When you need to kick it up a notch during a walk or jog, turn on a cadence. This helps me stay on tempo, and if you turn up the volume, you can hear their footsteps keeping time. Makes me feel like I'm running with a team. Plus, most of the cadences are short, at 1-2 minutes, which works perfectly for me (a beginning runner).

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You can get them on itunes, just look up "military cadence" or "Running to cadence with the US Marine Corps."

- Submitted by THEMUGGET 7/26/2011 in Exercise | 3 Comments

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- Submitted by LUSKCA 7/26/2011 | 2 Comments | View Secret

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Listening to US army or marine corps cadences, at double time, is a great way to make a run go faster, to maintain your pace and have a really good workout. It helps me to extend my runs, and by responding to the cadences, I know I am on track for energy expenditure

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"Running to cadence" mp3s can be bought and downloaded from i tunes, or downloaded for free on some sites, including you tube

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