Category: Health
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Tired of Training? – Reset Yourself
If you have been suffering from a training plateau, tiredness, lack of motivation or injury you are in some form of overtraining. Overtraining is caused by too much high-intensity training and/or too little recovery time which is often combined with other non-training stressors (work, family, life!). If overtraining is caught early it can be quickly…
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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.…
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Never Let a Crisis go to Waste. Are You Training Efficiently?
Now the COVID-19 dust has settled, there’s no excuse for not having a plan or a goal for your training. Races in the near term are cancelled, so you’re left with three options;
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Endurance Rewards Consistency. How a Training Plan Can Help You
Here are four mistakes that are common to all endurance athletes. Becoming a better endurance athlete takes time. There are a few mistakes that are common to all endurance athletes. Without a training plan, you’re more likely to make mistakes that seem like a good idea at the time but end up having long term…