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10 Mistakes to avoid on marathon race day
10 Mistakes to avoid on marathon race day
1. Consuming anything for your pre-race breakfast you haven’t consumed before a long run.
2. Trusting that the marathon’s pace group leaders will run the appropriate pace. (Keep track of your actual splits and know your pace for your goal time).
3. [...]
Resting heart rate for recovery
Monitoring your resting heart rate can be a valuable tool for evaluating your fitness and performance goals in running. The heart is a muscle that with training will be able to provide adequate blood to the body at rest with a lower number of beats per minute. Since the amount of blood the [...]
14Aug2008 | sean | 0 comments | Continued
Proper breathing techniques for runners
Like other aspects of our health, breathing is seldom considered…unless it is compromised. This is certainly the case while running.
Since breathing is the means we use to transfer oxygen to all of our body’s systems, saying it’s “important” is quite an understatement. Improving your breathing mechanics while running is a skill that should be valued [...]
New Movie Profiles Performance Enhancing Drug Use
Less than a month to go until the start of the Olympics, yet in many fans’ minds the issue of doping is still front and center. Who takes steroids and other performance-enhancers? How do they work? How do athletes get away with using them? Should they be banned in the first place?
All these issues are [...]
Side stitches in running
We have all been there. Everything is humming along just fine on our run or perhaps, even race. Then it creeps in like a very unwelcome stranger. Denial is followed by alarm leading you to the conclusion that you are now the victim of a side stitch. Not me (!) you [...]
30Jun2008 | sean | 2 comments | Continued
Hypnotism part of shot-putters training routine
With the Olympic Trials for United States track and field athletes beginning today, it’s interesting to see the lengths and strategies athletes have taken to make the team and win gold in Beijing. Although sports psychology in various forms has been used for decades by elite athletes, Adam Nelson’s use of hypnotism piques my [...]
27Jun2008 | sean | 0 comments | Continued
Power hills
Power hills are very short, very steep hills that have a lot to offer runners of various disciplines and abilities.
The goal: Find a very steep hill. It need not be long, as you will only use 50m of it. A grade of 10% of greater is appropriate. You are striving to [...]
The 90 minute progressive long run
Having a good foundation of consistent mileage, strength training and running technique work is a must before incorporating this intermediate concept to your long runs.
The goal: To take a ’short’ long run (90 minutes) and enhance the benefit it has for transporting oxygen to tissues in your body.
Begin this run with the first 20 - [...]
Running shoes without heels promote proper biomechanics
Former world record holder in the 5,000m, Dave Moorcroft, tests a ‘heelless’ running shoes design by a Dutch PT.
It’s now common knowledge that running with a pronounced heel strike not only creates breaking forces that need to be overcome by the runner with each step, thus increasing the work involved in running, but these [...]
Lactate threshold training
Lactate Threshold Training - Training the body to manage lactate accumulation
No molecule in the human body gets as bad a wrap as lactate. Better known to athletes incorrectly as lactic acid, the molecule L-lactate is constantly produced from pyruvate in the body as it attempts to extract all the potential energy stored in glucose. [...]
