Tips to make a strong comeback from Injury
Unfortunately injuries often go hand in hand with any sport or physical activity, especially when you're pushing your body to its full...
TRAINING GUIDES — Running
Strength training for endurance athletes – KISS (Keep It Super Simple)
Push! - Pull! - Squat! - Hinge! - Brace! By including just one exercise from each of these groups you will exercise all of the...
Burning Fat – the myths and the facts around fat utilisation
The ability to utilise stored body-fat to produce energy is of utmost importance for the endurance athlete. Triathletes can benefit from both...
Your Essential - Busy half marathon Training Plan
Making the step up to 13.1 miles needn’t get in the way of day-to-day life. Feeling ready to make the step up...
Testosterone and Age-Related Performance.
No adage is more relevant to an age group veteran master to increasing performance than ‘train smarter not harder’. For 99% of...
Should Endurance Athletes take Creatine?
Creatine has a pretty long and glorious history compared to other sports supplements. The supplemental form, creatine monohydrate, was first taken up...
Keep Your Cool to Race Faster
As you may have read in my previous blog post I’ve recently started attending cold water immersion sessions and this sparked my...
Simple Tips To Avoid Motivational Lags
Motivation requires both passion and a goal. It doesn't matter if you're coming back from an injury, competing in your first race...
Lactic Acid vs Lactate: What Is The Difference?
Do you know the difference between lactic acid and lactate? If not, you're not alone! A lot of people don't know the...
How to run a great 10K
Deciding to really go for a 10K is a bold choice. Run it flat out from the start and you’ll have legs...
5 ways to run smarter
1) Ditch the junk miles - only add work-outs that have a purpose. Instead of assuming that squeezing in an extra run is always...
Hit your stride
Foot strike is dominating the discussion about running form. Some researchers say that if we run as our ancestors did (barefoot or close to it), it would...
Lactate is not your enemy
For years the conventional thinking among fitness experts, and even scientists, has been to demonise lactic acid, or lactate, as the culprit...
4 tips for a running breakthrough
Take advice from some of the sport’s best coaches on how you can shake up your training for a faster run split next race....
Redefine Your Goals
Athletes race for different reasons, and they often finish feeling disappointed and unsatisfied with their accomplishments. Can you make a better job of defining success? Goal-setting experts tell us...
Cold Water Immersion and Breathwork
Cold Water Immersion and Breathwork We are bombarded with buzz words and fads, and you may have relegated the terms above into...
6 key tips to help marathon training recovery
If you’re in the midst of marathon training and upping that mileage, chances are your body is starting to creak. Here’s our...
5 top tips for trail running
If you’re a dyed-in-the-wool townie, isn’t it time you thought about taking your running to the trails? Slow down!Running over hills, through...