Glute strength exercises are essential for all fast runners -without exception. Strong hips and butt muscles are the powerhouse of the run. Without these muscles doing their job, the smaller muscles in the leg must compensate. Sooner or later, injury will result. Non –runners and many amatuers never consider the glutes (the butt muscles) and […]
How To Get Your Winter Base Training Right
This is an excellent guest post by good friend and triathlon coach Mikael Eriksson. There are some golden nuggets in here- so make sure you don’t just read it but pick out at least one new strategy or tool to implement right away! * * * * The winter months is when the foundations for […]
How A Keto Diet Can Help Endurance Athletes
We are very lucky today to have a guest post by Louise Hendon, co-host of The Keto Summit and author of The Essential Keto Cookbook Is the keto diet an effective tool to improve your exercise performance? There are plenty of sites recommending athletes “go keto”. But what does the science say? In this […]
Best Minimalist Running Shoes For Triathletes
The best minimalist running shoes for training aren’t necessarily the same shoes that are suitable for racing. You spend much more time training than racing, so ensure your weekly running shoes are the best you can get and the most suitable for your foot shape and current ability. This article will discuss the best minimalist […]
Mental Strength In Sport: Are You Making Progress Or Just F@£$ing Around?
Mental strength in sport is sometimes talked about but is not well understand and is much less practiced. Many people see it as something you’ve either got or you don’t; rather than something you can develop. But anyone who is a tough as nails knows that this skill required years of practice, commitment and discipline […]
Exogenous Ketones: Are They A Short Cut For Triathletes?
Exogenous ketones are undoubtedly one of the most popular discussion for points for anyone on the ketogenic diet. I mean if you can make the ketogenic diet that much easier- why wouldn’t you? The Ketogenic Diet is a well researched area and super smart people like Tim Ferris, Dr Peter Attia, Dr Dom D’Agostino and many […]
Swimmers Shoulder: How To Prevent and Treat Shoulder Pain
Swimmers shoulder is an umbrella term covering a range of painful shoulder overuse injuries that occur in swimmers. You may feel shoulder pain at the point of the shoulder, into the collar bone, down the arm or up into the neck. Being an overuse injury, it is caused by repeated trauma rather than a specific […]
Best Cycling Workouts: How To Be A Ninja On The Bike In Just 4 Weeks!
Cycling workouts? Haven’t you heard them all before? Maybe- but are you doing them? To “know them” but not to do them is not to know them (if that makes sense!) You must be ready for the pain locker! (or as Chris McCormack famously calls it “the hurt locker”) If you are a beginner, of course, you […]
Fast Freestyle Swimming For Triathlon With Limited Training
To become good at fast freestyle swimming as a triathlete, you need to train slightly differently than traditional pool swimming. In normal pool swimming, once you touch the finish block, you are done. Training focuses on doing whatever you can to get to the finish fastest ( even if that burns up all your energy […]
Ketogenic Diet for Women, Nutrition, Intolerances and Hormones
Is the Ketogenic diet for women the same as the recommended diet for men? I have written extensively about the Ketogenic Diet for Athletes. But as with all diets, one size rarely fits all. Trying to rigidly do a diet suitable for elite athletes might not work for a raw beginner. Also women do have […]
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