EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICAL ADVICE FOR ENDURANCE ATHLETES
No matter how hard you train, illness or injury can scupper the best-laid plans. In this section, you’ll find information on how to keep well and stay injury-free, even when the pressure is on!
Trevor Langford explains what your quadriceps to hamstring strength ratio is and why the right ratio is important for injury prevention MORE
in Endurance health and lifestyle, Endurance injuries and health, Endurance products and technology, Equipment
Mark Richardson reveals the story that our running shoes can tell us, and how it can help you avoid running injury MORE
in Endurance injuries and health, Other, Overuse injuries, Strength, conditioning and flexibility
Planning a triathlon training programme isn't simply about scaling down an elite programme . You need to match your training programme to your own strengths and weaknesses, and build in some basic strength work to enhance resilience and stay injury free. James Marshall explains... MORE
in Endurance health and lifestyle, Immunity, Nutrition for endurance athletes, Supplements
Ayurvedic medicine is one of the world’s oldest holistic healing systems. Developed more than 3,000 years ago in the region of Asia that we now know as India, Ayurvedic medicine is based on the belief that health and wellness depend on a delicate balance between the mind, body, and spirit. Cynics among you might assume... MORE
in Coping with emotions, Endurance health and lifestyle, Endurance psychology
Dr Adam Nicholls looks at the latest research on avoiding burnout and provides you with practical strategies to keep you mentally and physically fresh MORE
in Endurance injuries and health
Trevor Langford provides simple guidelines on how to prevent and manage blisters and skin abrasions in order to prolong pain free athletic activity MORE
in Endurance health and lifestyle
In recent years, sports scientists have discovered that sleep quality and the timing of the sleep-wake cycle (more technically known as the circadian rhythm) are hugely important factors that can affect sport performance(1-3). It’s now known that sleep and sport/exercise have a strong relationship, mutually influencing each other, positively or negatively. Get your sleep health... MORE
in Dietary basics, Endurance health and lifestyle, Hydration and fuelling on the move, Nutrition for endurance athletes
Gastric distress can ruin even the best-laid race plans, and make life generally miserable for endurance athletes in training. Andrew Hamilton looks at the causes of this potentially debilitating condition, and what the science says about how to successfully overcome it MORE
in Immunity
Over the past four decades, the relationship between exercise and immunity has been portrayed as something as a double-edged sword: although regular exercise boosts your immunity in the longer term, in the hours immediately after exercise, immunity takes a hit – which can increase your risk of illness and infection, especially colds, coughs and sore... MORE
Back in 2016, scientists announced that gravitational waves had finally been detected – exactly as predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity, published in 1915. How this will change the future for the man in the street is far from clear, but it almost certainly will, and who cannot be excited about the possibility of... MORE
