Café stops on a Sunday ride are a great tradition and for many are considered a way to refuel, socialise, get some warmth back in the hands and feet, and possibly a chance to dry off. But are they really a benefit??? 3 physiological reasons why not to stop and to keep riding.
Top 10 Tips for the Winter Club Run by SportsTest and the best UK cyclosportive as voted for by cyclosport members.
Burpees & Sit Thrus Exercise for Strength & Conditioning with Corey Beasley (the guy hardly draws breath) and some stretches with some dolly in an orange top at Townhill Total Health.
How to beat an Achilles heel injury. Find the answers with four essential exercises that can make Achilles heel injuries a thing of the past.
How to set up your bike based on 109% of your inside leg measurement and The F.I.S.T. method of bike fit for triathletes. The biomechanics behind it and other techniques on how to get your seat height right. Guess who has a new TT bike?
Need to lower the seat height on your new TT bike? Easton has instructions on how to cut carbon posts and bars.
Fast Legs, Firm Abs. If you’re ever tempted to skip a
strength-training session in favour of clocking up a few extra miles, then think again. Not
only does building up muscle add power to your stride, it’ll rev-up your calorie-burn and
reduce your risk of injury too.
But don’t despair if you’d rather be hitting the trails than sweating it out in the gym -
these outdoor cross-training circuits
(taken from Runner's World October magazine issue) are designed to give you the perfect all-over
workout, combining running intervals with a mix of upper- and lower-body exercises.
Crawl technique - gliding for long distance swimming, translated from German by Holger Lange.
Swimming tips and advice at Limmat Sharks Zürich.
Plantar Fasciitis. Describing Plantar Fasciitis is easy. Getting rid of it is a whole lot harder.
New Core Stability Workout. This exercise programme will strengthen your trunk muscles and thus help avoid back problems.
Death wobble and the art of descending at slowtwitch.com.
Top Triathlon tips with Jodie Swallow and Chris Hoy's guide to track cycling from the BBC Sport Academy.
Spinning Training Tips including Bike Setup, Core Positions and what shoes to wear, at Spinning.com.
Got a Heart Rate Monitor, then visit the Sports Coach (Brian Mackenzie) and learn how to train to your heart rate - some useful tips to avoid burn out whilst training for your next race.
What can you do when family life and work mean running can no
longer remain your number one priority? Learn from RW reader
Pete Kennedy, perhaps,
who started to focus more on high quality sessions and commuting runs, and still manages a
1:22 Half Marathon and is training for an ultra.
And how should you stay hydrated in cooler weather? Can you lose weight on 2000kcal a day?
How hard should speedwork be? Over the last few months, RW coaches, nutritionists and
medical experts have answered these and 13 more reader questions on the pages of
Runner's World. You can see them all, plus 230 older answers, in the RW
online archive.
Want to learn how to Bilateral Breathe...you should! from the Tri Talk Forum.
Swiss ball: Functional aid or fashion accessory? Core Stability Exercises. How to do The Swiss ball curl-up properly!
Calf rehabilitation & low back rehabilitation. In part 1 of this short series, SIB looked at the principles that should guide your programme design for rehabilitation strength training with minimal equipment, and introduced a progressive exercise series for quadriceps rehabilitation.
Neural Training. Lessons learned from one-limb training: how the results of ‘one-sided’ scientific research can boost the quality of your workouts.
Running for Fitness - helping you to run smarter. Whether you want to increase your fitness, lose weight, tackle stress, or run a little faster in races, training smarter will help you to get more from the effort you put in. Has some good calculators including Calories to lose weight.
The importance of rest. There is much discussion these days about overtraining, and the term has become so popular that many Triathletes believe that even if they feel tired over the course of their regular training they must be overtrained.
Keep your mind on the task for peak performance swimming.
Hyponatremia, a low concentration of sodium in the blood, may occur in athletes participating in ultra-endurance sports. Prolonged physical activity and excessive sweat production increases the risk of an athlete having too little sodium in their blood stream during training and competition. Because sodium is lost in sweat, it is important for athletes who exercise at high intensity to get adequate sodium before, during and after exercise, especially as they continue to drink water. For the full article go to URL Hyponatremia or Overhydration - who is at risk?
Cyclists with low-back pain should now adjust their saddles and more Cycling Performance Tips.
Take the hassle out of training, boost your endurance and improve your consistency at Runner's World UK.
Best 30-Minute Sessions and Summer Shoe Guide at Runner's World UK.
Spring Shoe Guide at Runner's World UK.
If you're wondering why any Triathlete needs speedwork it's for two reasons. One is to raise your comfort threshold. The other is to get you used to running on tired legs. Read more about speedwork.
Essential fats, Over-hydration, PNF Stretching, Yoga and The Real Reason Tri-Guys Shave Their Legs. Some appropriate topics to close out the year! Also, this Swim Pace Chart from the excellent Tri-newbies website may come in useful for the club swim sessions at Brinscall Baths Victorian 25 yard, 4-lane pool.
Hot on the heels of the training-pace calculator, the new race-time calculator from Runner's World UK lets you use an actual race time to see what you should be capable of at another distance. Does your 52-minute 10K translate into a 2:50 marathon? Find out here! Also, what's the best runners' breakfast? Find out which - and why - along with nine other top-food answers, in Anita Bean's new article from the current issue of Runner's World (on sale now).
342 of the best sites selected by Humans.
New! Training Paces Calculator. Train too hard, and you'll probably burn out or get injured. Train too gently and you simply won't make the most of your potential (though that's OK). Training by heart rate is one good way of getting it right. Using this automatic calculator from Runner's World UK is another. Just tap in a recent race time, and press 'calculate'. The power of the web will whirr into action and automatically show how fast you should run the different components of a training week. Magic!
Brooks, once the Humvee-maker of the footwear world, has built one of the plushest shoes on the market. Nike has built a low-profile Shox shoe at last and twinned it with fast Zoom Air. Even sensible shoemaker Etonic is back, waving a 'lightweight' flag. Full shoe guide preview at Runner's World UK.
Beat impatience, do an Ironman, boost your energy at Runner's World UK.
Hard-won wisdom, Is stretching bad?, How to beat Achilles tendinitis and Best off-road shoes at Runner's World UK.
Best Gym Sessions for Runners and Forums Made Easy at Runner's World UK.
Q&A Index and racing in the EU at Runner's World UK.
You know when someone inspires you and you think, 'they're amazing - I wish I could be like that.' You may not realise it, but you can guarantee for a fact that someone else is looking at something you do and thinking exactly that, too. Remember that, next time you're having a heavy-legged run... Heroes, forum beginner tips and Autumn Shoe Guide at Runner's World UK.
Racing help, and a new guide to 1500 articles at Runner's World UK.
Get Fast, Fast. Prepare Yourself and Your Steed For Battle. XTri article from May 2001 includes an evaluation of Powercranks. Also from Extreme Tri, Gordo Puts Powercranks to the Test.
How to race yourself fit, and race at your best, at Runner's World UK.
A new link has been added in the Links section of the website. Tri-newbies is a really useful site for Triathlon with down to earth sensible advice especially for those new to Triathlon. Elsewhere on their site, you'll find Open Water Swim Tips, Aerodynamics for Your Average Joe and Training Programs for all distances. Take a look at their Bicycle Cleaning guide. On their old site, 'Tales From the Midpak' offers a refreshing perspective on the sport from a humble mid-packer. Also in the Links section is a link to the European Bike Express, a luxury coach and cycle trailer service that transports you and your cycle effortlessly to popular holiday destinations in Europe. Phil and Sam Davidson have used this service before, back in 1995.
Swim Session 1, Swim Session 2, Swim Session 3 and Progressive Drills were first mailed to members in Nov 2003 as a result of some club members not understanding the basic swim session structure. Paul's 2200m sessions were structured with members in mind and may not suite everyone (may be too little for some or too much for others). You should be doing 2-3 sessions a week and as long as you follow the basic structure, alter it to match your own ability. These are the kind of sets you have to work towards in order to improve. If you are still struggling for inspiration you could do a lot worse than take a look at the swim sessions on the Wrecsam Triathlon Club website. Click on Training then Swimming to find a weekly swim program, many of the sessions following the approach taken from the very practical Workouts in a Binder: Swim Workouts for Triathletes by Gale Bernhardt and Nick Hansen. If you do decide to follow these sessions, you may want to fit in a more varied session once a week as the Bernhardt sessions are almost exclusively front crawl.
Use these Triathlon Training pages to improve your technique, speed, strength and stamina. Use the search facility to find advice on Carbo Loading, Achilles Heel Injury Prevention, Core Stability Training and much more.
Turbo Sessions. Martin Kerry (Father and son vets team pictured on the start line of the Duo Normand) distributed this Turbo advice to club members earlier in the year and has a lot of faith in Turbo Training. More Training and coaching information can be found on the Lancashire Road Club web site.
Time Trialling for the Beginner. These extracts from Cycle Racing: How to Train, Race and Win by William Fotheringham first appeared in the May 2003 Newsletter.
Womens' Running Index, and Hard Training with Mike Gratton, at Runner's World UK.
Sessions to get fitter, hayfever chat and a good deal more at Runner's World UK.
Beginner Heaven, Takeaway Survival Guide (for Chris), Pace Planning and more at Runner's World UK.
