Fueling for Performance: Optimizing with Specifically Timed Nutrition
Whether you’re training for a race or simply trying to improve your personal best, proper nutrition is essential for fueling your body and achieving peak performance. But with so much conflicting information out there, it can be difficult to know what to eat before a workout, on a rest day, or even before bed. In […]
Three Effective Ways for Runners to Monitor Interval Intensity
If you are an everyday runner hoping to improve your performance for your target event, you need to do some speed work – or intervals. Intervals, or kicking up your intensity for short periods, build speed, endurance, efficiency of movement, as well as bring a host of additional physiological benefits. But how hard should you […]
Improve Cycling Performance: Unveiling the Effects of Intervals
Most types of cycling training will bring results. Whether you’re doing endurance riding or VO2max intervals, you’re going to improve your fitness. Understanding the differences between the types of training can help you tailor your training to your specific goals and needs. Each type of interval targets different physiological systems and energy pathways and can […]
Breaking Through Barriers: How a Growth Mindset Can Help You Overcome Obstacles to Change
Overcoming the obstacles to change is key to improving our lives. Katy Milkman, in her award-winning book How to Change, describes seven main reasons we don’t make the changes we want – or need. These include getting started, impulsivity, procrastination, forgetfulness, laziness, confidence, and conformity. Thankfully, Milkman, a behavioral scientist, shares with us the tools […]
Monitor Training Progress: Practical Tools and Technology
What is the best way to track training progress to know if your training is actually working? When I was a middle school teacher, it was always critical for me to keep track of data, measure my students’ progress. How else would I know if they were actually learning what I was teaching? We need […]
Be Flexible in Following Your Training Plan to Stay Fresh and on Target
You know those days when you have a specific workout when life gets in the way? You panic. Damn. How am I going to make this up? My entire training plan is now screwed up! Runners and cyclists know exactly what I’m talking about It’s okay, really Changing a training plan can seem like a […]
Achieve More Endurance Training Success Using Your Unique Thresholds
As regular everyday cyclists and runners, we need to maximize our training time. That means we need to understand how to structure our training to get the most adaptation out of the least amount of training. To do that, we need to know how hard and how easy to train so that we don’t end […]
Interval Training for Runners: Proven Sessions for Enhanced Endurance and Speed
If you are ready to take your running fitness to the next level, interval training is your next step! Not only does do running intervals help with endurance and speed but it also improves overall cardiovascular health. But with so many options out there, how do you know which interval workouts are the best for […]
Polarized or Pyramidal or a Blend? Your Unique Training Model is Key to Endurance Success
By now, you’ve likely heard the debate about the best model for training between advocates of polarized training model and pyramidal training model. Essentially, the polarized group says that endurance athletes like runners or cyclists should do most of their training at a long, slow pace and just a small amount of training at a […]
