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Endurance and Adventure Sports Training!
Welcome to the Endurance and Adventure Sports Training! Here you'll find everything you need for mountain biking, triathlons, skiing, orienteering and more...
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Why 'Endurance' Training Lacks Staying Power
Alwyn Cosgrove
The biggest mistake endurance athletes make in their training program is falling into the trap that their sport is about who can go the longest. It's not. It's STILL about who can go the fastest. They give medals for the first athlete to cross the5K/10K/ marathon/ ultra marathon finish line -- not the athlete who crosses it and can keep on going. There's a reason it's 26 miles and 385 yards. There's an END point. And whoever gets there the fastest will be the winner. . . . keep reading
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Three Tests All Runners Should Do
Carson Boddicker
Distance running is a tough sport. To compete at the highest level requires a precise mix of endurance, power, speed, reactivity, and durability. Because so many qualities are important, care must be taken to improve each quality to the optimal level to facilitate performance. Sadly, however, middle and long distance runner's programming is often skewed so far towards one quality that optimal development of physiological traits across the board is not possible. Typically, the coach only uses race times as a gauge for performance gains and losses. This is a misguided approach. Certainly, better race performance is the ultimate goal, however, it is foolhardy to consider them to be the only worthwhile testing procedures. Before delving into the exact testing procedures, we should first attempt to understand testing. . . . keep reading
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Training the Endurance Athlete
Michael Boyle
Training endurance athletes can be a goldmine for personal trainers and strength coaches if you can understand their mentality. Truth is endurance athletes have a lot of qualities that make them desirable clients. They are generally motivated, in need of help and often affluent. In fact, triathletes, runners and rowers far outnumber team sport athletes in the adult population.
The first question you need to ask yourself in order to understand the endurance athlete is "Why are they an endurance athlete?". The answer generally comes in one of four parts. . . . keep reading
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Interval Training- HIIT or Miss?
Michael Boyle
I think every fat loss article we read espouses the value of interval training for fat loss. In fact the term HIIT ( for High Intensity Interval Training) is thrown around so much that many people just assume they know what it is. However among all the recommendations I see to perform HIIT, very few articles contain any practical information as to what to do or how to do it. I have to confess that I stumbled into this area somewhat accidentally. Two different processes converged to make me understand that I might be a fat loss expert and not know it. In my normal process of professional reading I read both Alwyn Cosgrove's Afterburn and Craig Ballantyne's Turbo Training. What struck me immediately was that what these experts were recommending for fat loss looked remarkably like the programs we used for conditioning. At the time I was reading these programs I was also training members of the US Women's Olympic Ice Hockey team. It seemed all of the female athletes I worked with attempted to use steady state cardio work as a weight loss or weight maintenance vehicle. I was diametrically opposed to this idea as I felt that steady state cardiovascular work undermined the strength and power work we were doing in the weightroom. My policy became "intervals only" if you wanted to do extra work. I did not do this as a fat loss strategy but rather as a "slowness prevention" strategy. However, a funny thing happened. The female athletes that we prevented from doing steady state cardiovascular work also began to get remarkably leaner. I was not bright enough to put two and two together until I read the above-mentioned manuals and realized that I was doing exactly what the fat loss experts recommended. We were on a vigorous strength program and we were doing lots of intervals. . . . keep reading
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Should Most Women Run Long Distances?
Michael Boyle
I really like Physical Therapist Diane Lee's quote 'you can't run to get fit, you need to be fit to run". In fact I've used it in numerous presentations and articles. It really resonates with me. Simple, to the point.
I'm going to take the idea one step further. I'm not sure most women should run. When I say this in seminars it really pisses off the female runners. However, the truth is I'm not worried about female runners as much as I am worried about coaches and trainers encouraging or worse yet forcing females to run. If you are a female runner and healthy, read on but realize that you may be the exception, not the rule.
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Single Leg Strength For Endurance Athletes:
Getting a Leg up on the Competition
By Tim Crowley BS, CSCS, PES
Article and Audio Interview
Strength training is a hot topic among endurance athletes and coaches these days. Internet websites and forums constantly debate the merits and value of weight training for endurance athletes. Addressing this issue entirely is beyond the scope of this article, but I will demonstrate how and why you should incorporate single leg strength (SLS) training into a year-round training plan. . . . keep reading
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