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Triathlon Training – Swim Fast to Get Fast Part 2

Mike — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 13:02:24 +0000

By Gale Bernhardt For Active.com In an earlier column, I encouraged you to try some fast 25s to boost your swimming speed. People have been trying the workouts and, lo and behold, they are swimming faster. Excellent! Now that you’ve mastered some of the shorter workouts, let’s bump the distance up some. Below are new …

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Triathlon Training – Swim Fast to Get Fast

Mike — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 07:46:15 +0000

By Gale Bernhardt For Active.com I completely agree that doing form drills to practice good swimming technique is critical to the process of becoming a faster swimmer. That written, you cannot expect that slow and purposeful drills will increase your sustained swimming speed if you never swim fast. Certainly, a beginning swimmer can make significant …

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Triathlon Training – Strength training for distance runners

Mike — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 17:44:56 +0000

Can lifting weights help middle distance runners run faster or further with no corresponding improvements in aerobic fitness? James Marshall looks at the evidence. Resistance training (RT) takes many forms, including strength training, power training, plyometric training, muscular endurance and hypertrophy (increasing muscle size) work. Most of these forms, except hypertrophy (see below) can aid …

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Triathlon training – Why swimming, cycling and running is not enough

Mike — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:45:33 +0000

The triathlete’s winter “off season” is no doubt the best time to get down to some productive gym work so as to start the next season even stronger. This article sets out the rationale and a good programme… Mike It’s time to tear up the ‘old school’ rulebook… There’s a revolution going on in sports …

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Recovery – how the right nutrition can help prevent overtraining

Mike — Thu, 20 May 2010 12:43:53 +0000

More in the series on recovery and the prevention of overtraining which again emphasises the importance of having a good balanced nutrition programme. – Mike Specific nutritional practices can prevent overtraining and accelerate exercise recovery Where should we draw the line between appropriate ‘heavy training’ and overtraining? And are there specific nutritional practices that can …

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Recovery Training – Finding the right balance between hard work and recovery

Mike — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:50:46 +0000

This is the third article in this excellent series containing absolutely vital information about programming training for maximum gains. Every athlete owes it to themselves to thoroughly grasp and apply these concepts. Mike. Too much hard training can devastate your muscles and implode your immune system. Creating a great training programme is not just a …

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Recovery Training – Speeding recovery for progressive gains

Mike — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:28:55 +0000

This article continues to expand on the preceding ones published in this blog, and which should form the basis upon which all good training programmes are designed. You can only train as well as you are recovered. Lessons hard learned… Mike. Carrying out great training is not just a matter of conducting tough, high-quality workouts. …

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Endurance Training – Avoiding the no man’s land

Mike — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:12:44 +0000

Latest research indicates that over 90% of our endurance training should be done at a pace so slow that we feel almost “guilty”, with only around 3% going really hard and very little in the so called “tempo” (no man’s land) zone… Mike How a train low, train high approach can lead to increased performance …

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Triathlon Training – Managing Arrhythmia Part 3

Mike — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:52:40 +0000

The final piece of the puzzle drops into place… Well listen up guys and dolls, this is serious stuff that effects all of you! Your sexual health could be at great great risk because of the saddle you use! On an annual basis, bicycle riding involves several hundred million people worldwide. Studies have linked perineal …

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Triathlon Training – Killing Six Birds With One Stone

Mike — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:12:29 +0000

Or in one single step how to:- Train harder. Recover well. Manage heart arrhythmia. Repair calf muscle strain. Improve overall performance. Sleep better at night. It’s funny how one can sometimes grapple with a seemingly complex and unresolvable issue only to discover one day that the solution is quite simple really. For long now I …

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