You wake up after what felt like a grueling training block. Your muscles are protesting, a dull ache lingers, and your mind feels foggy. Yet, you glance at your watch or app, and it flashes a confident green signal: "Ready to Train." Or, perhaps, the inverse: you feel surprisingly fresh, ready to crush your session, … Continue reading Endurance Explained: Decoding Heart Rate Variability (HRV) for Endurance Athletes – A Practical Guide
The Overload Principle is crucial for endurance athletes facing training plateaus. It emphasizes the need to challenge the body with progressively greater stimuli for continued improvement. Key methods include increasing volume, intensity, and frequency, paired with adequate recovery, to ensure physiological adaptations and sustainable gains in performance.
Welcome back, endurance athletes! As we turn the page on another year, it's time to set our sights on new goals and conquer new distances. Whether you're a seasoned marathoner or a budding cyclist, a well-crafted annual training plan is your roadmap to success. In this guide, we'll delve into the world of periodization, SMART … Continue reading Craft Your Winning Season: A Step-by-Step Guide to Annual Training Plans
Right off the bat, nothing here is medical advice. You should always consult with your doctor before beginning an exercise routine. Delayed onset muscle soreness is a topic requires that warning, because it's a symptom many experience when they first start exercising, especially after a period away. Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) is pain and … Continue reading Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness, and what can be done about it;
There's a familiar pattern recommended for most workouts. Start with a period of light activity, as a warm up. Then proceed with your workout. Finally, bring the intensity down in a gradual manner, the cool down. Proponents of this method tout the last stage as facilitating recovery, promoting clearing of metabolites from the muscles and … Continue reading Do cool downs matter?
Somehow, in the seven year span since I started riding a road bike with clipless pedals, I have not fallen on the road once. I was ultra diligent in learning to clip in and clip out, and I've always been a very cautious rider in a group and in traffic. Last year when I started … Continue reading Collarbone Break
The hardest part of run training for me is running fast enough on my workouts and slow enough on my easy runs. It's easy to fall into a pattern of running hard every workout; it seems that running harder on easy runs should lead to even more progress than if you ran them easy. But … Continue reading Pick your pacing;
