How effective is your gym programme?
My last post about planning for the season ahead (One Season Ends, Another Begins...
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10
October
Endurance
It’s the Process not the Outcome
Last weekends leg of the Aviva Diamond League Grand Prix Series in London saw the final chance for a competitive outing for most athletes, and a chance for an always welcome confidence boost ahead of this years Olympic games. Despite the torrid conditions, there was some...
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20
July
Start, Middle or End??
Recently our friends over at ForGoodnessShakes (@BringOnTomorrow) posted a tweet which posed a great question - which line do you prefer the most, the start line or the finish line? It made me stop and think for a moment, first about my own opinion, but...
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10
July
Race Hard, Recover Harder – Marathon recovery tips
Yesterday was the 30th running of the Edinburgh Marathon and the 10th anniversary of the Edinburgh Marathon Festival, run under soaring temperatures (for Scotland at least!) and beautiful clear blue skies. Over 38,000 runners stepped up to toe the line and helped make it another...
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28
May
Mix it up!
After my last post about specificity (Specificity is Queen), i had a few people asking me questions about the detail of how to keep things specific but also keep the body adapting, so i thought i'd write a little more about it in this post. Sport...
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22
May
Specificity is Queen!
A while ago i wrote a blog post called Consistency is King which discussed one of the most important training principles for endurance athletes - Consistency. A lack of consistency in training, whether that's due to illness, injury or anything else, is one of the biggest...
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24
April
Testing times
As you'll probably know from the last blog post, we recently invested in a shiny new wattbike to help test and train the athletes that we work with, so i thought i'd write a little about performance testing in this post. Testing is a hugely...
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28
February
All things Positive…
It's been far too long since the last blog post, unbelievably this is actually the first one of 2012 (I know, sorry!) but, since coming back from some well deserved time off over the new year break, January has been an unprecedented month for us...
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13
February
Consistency is King!
In previous blog entries i've discussed how to approach your training plans, how to eat right and how to prepare mentally amongst other things, but no matter what sport you play, or what level you play at, for the greatest chances of all our well...
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November
