Secrets to preventing Cramp
What Causes Cramp? Muscle cramp has a number of main causes, the most frequent of these are fatigue, low sodium and potassium, low blood sugar. Loss of electrolytes through sweat is the most common one for athletes.
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12 Week Marathon Training Schedule – Week 11 and 12
Unfortunately the last week hasn’t been a great one for me. Managed to fall off my bike last week and hurt my knee pretty badly. Which has meant I haven’t been able to do a proper run in the 10 days before the marathon. Mentally I’m raring to go, so just hope the bruising goes [...]
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Triathlon Training Plan
Training for a triathlon – sounds like a daunting idea yes? Well, no! The mistake most people make is that they look at the bigger picture. If you are just venturing off your couch and the thought of swim-bike-run seems a little too impossible – then think again.
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Paul Drinkhall: Olympic Prospect #6 – Table Tennis
Paul Drinkhall is currently Great Britain’s number 1 ranked table tennis player and dreaming of representing Great Britain at the London 2012 Olympics.
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12 Week Marathon Training Plan – Week 9 and 10
The most important things over the next couple of weeks are increasing endurance and getting used to running efficiently at marathon pace and, of course, not overcooking it and being exhausted come race day in a few weeks.
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Marathon Tapering – Your Coach Training Tip #16
Marathon tapering is the practice of easing up on the intensity of your training schedule to ensure your body is in peak condition for race day. There are various things both nutritional and training wise that this entails.
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Your Coach Training Tip #15: Marathon Preparation
Don’t have the time to follow our detailed marathon training schedule? Your coach Bruce comes to the rescue!
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12 Week Marathon Training Programme – Week 7 and 8
Just over half way through the 12 week training programme and it’s going well. I haven’t been sticking exactly to the schedule day by day but have been clocking up the miles over the week and feeling in good shape.
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A triathlete’s life: the amazing Chrissie Wellington & NLP
I met the amazing Chrissie Wellington the other day at the Triathlon show – the second time I have had the privilege actually. This time though, she was signing her book ‘Life without limits’. Meet Chrissie and get one of the most talked about books in recent triathlon history all at once? Oh yes!
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12 Week Marathon Training Plan – Week 3 and 4
Training so far Week 1 and 2 of training has gone pretty well considering the abysmal weather we’ve had, which has really managed to stop me clocking up the miles I would have liked.
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