Setting Your Heart Rate Zones

Monitoring and controlling the intensity of your endurance training is important, especially if you are new to this…


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Treadmill Season

It’s cold and dark out there! Many of us have to sneak training time in before or after work. Weather or conditions may…


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Latest Thoughts on the Use of Hypoxico Tents for Pre-Acclimatization

While anecdotal evidence may not always beat controlled studies, in the absence of those studies and when there is an…


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Keys to Successful Tapering

Reducing the training load as you approach an event where your performance matters is known as Tapering. There are a…


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Updated Thinking on Aerobic Assessment for Mountain Athletes

Until recently, there were limited options for an endurance athlete to get a handle on his or her metabolic response to…


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Aerobic Deficiency Syndrome (ADS)

Rather than rewrite a whole section on the physiology of endurance, if you are unfamiliar with this topic, please…


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Muscular Endurance: All You Need to Know

Over the past 20 years I’ve written and spoken many thousands of words about Muscular Endurance training. Both Training…


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How Training Works

Training makes you weaker. Recovery makes you fitter. You read that correctly. It is one of the most misunderstood…


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Capacity vs Utilization Training: A Deep Dive

A vast body of knowledge covering the full spectrum of endurance sports exists. I have culled and distilled a good deal…


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