How to taper and why it benefits athletes Tapering is a period of deliberate recovery to be able to compete at the best of your ability on competition day. This means you have recovered well and your body is in peak physical condition. An effective taper...
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Get Faster And Improve Power With Resisted Sprint Training There are many methods to improve an athlete’s force output and make them faster but aside from overloading compound movements like squatting and deadlifting, one method that is regularly used to bridge the gap between the weights...
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Killer hamstring exercises. The hamstrings group is made up of 3 muscles found at the back of the thighs originating from the hip and inserting at the medial side of the tibia and on the fibula. Their anatomical function is knee flexion but also aiding in...
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Increase your speed endurance with critical power training. The critical power or critical speed is defined as an intensity between steady state and non-steady state exercise. In simpler terms, it is the maximum sustainable intensity in which, food fuel availability is not a limiting factor. It...
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How to massively improve agility for athletes and change of direction with strength training There is a strong evidence base to support the thought that strength training can improve agility for athletes and your ability to change direction. When thinking about how strength training can improve...
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What is nutrient timing and how does it affect your body composition? Nutrient timing has zero effect on changes in your body composition. The international society of sports nutrition issued a position stand on nutrient timing in 2008 which, was reviewed in 2017 and their conclusion...
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Improve your endurance running with these stability exercises. The main function of the core is to stabilise the spine through a range of movements. When training the core, we want to think about the movements the body makes and how we can manipulate exercise selection to...
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Push Your Limits with High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) High intensity interval Training (HIIT) is a method of training of short high intensity intervals with short amounts of rest. There is not one particular protocol that defines HIIT except for the concept that the work periods...
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Obstacle Course Training Exercises for Extreme Athletes The first thing that comes to mind when we talk about obstacle courses is Tough Mudder, Spartan Race, Zombie Mud Run and so on. These are all challenges where, you can find obstacles of different height and difficulty separated...
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Build Strength Anywhere The summer is coming and you are probably thinking about going on holiday frantically researching for the package with the best hotel gym so that your strength training doesn’t have to be put on hold for a week. Fret not, we have a...
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