Category: Athletes
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Cross-training for Endurance Athletes
Cross-training can be a good addition to endurance training, but is it right for you? If you struggle with injuries in your chosen sport then cross-training will allow you to exercise more without the risk of injury. The goal is to exercise the body parts that aren’t injured. I.e. an injured runner can go swimming…
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Women Endurance Athletes and Carbohydrate
Women Aren’t Men A quick search of google for “endurance nutrition” will bring up an array of feeding and supplementation protocols all centred around one common theme; you need carbohydrate for optimal endurance performance. Despite doing extensive research on low carbohydrate exercise performance, I’m not going to argue with the concept of carbs = performance.…