Success in endurance sports such as running, cycling and triathlon requires the ability to sustain a fast pace, which means some high-intensity training. In this section, you’ll find information on the underlying principles involved, and how to integrate high-intensity work into your base endurance programme.
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Professor Andy Lane and Dan Robinson look at the key building blocks of an elite marathon runner’s build up. Do they tally with current scientific thinking, and which elements might be usefully adopted, adapted or avoided? MORE
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Many runners often eschew strength and conditioning in favour of more miles. However, hopping, bounding and drop jumps in the form of plyometrics could enhance your endurance. England athletics coach and author John Shepherd explains MORE
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Andrew Hamilton looks at recent research on the value of sprint intervals for endurance athletes MORE
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Andrew Hamilton presents some of the latest findings from the world of sport performance science MORE
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Richard Lovett explains why runners cyclists and other endurance athletes should embrace lactate during their training sessions, and how this can translate into faster race times. MORE
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Once upon a time, resistance training for endurance athletes was considered a complete no-no. After all, why waste time down the gym developing ‘bulky’ muscles when you could be out and about endurance training? But over the last 25 years, there’s been a revolution in this outdated mode of thinking. That’s because numerous scientific studies... MORE
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Andrew Hamilton presents some of the latest findings from the world of sport performance science MORE
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Rick Lovett explains how science can improve your threshold training Tempo runs have long been a staple of endurance training. As far back as the 1960s, Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman got his University of Oregon distance runners to do 3-mile ‘up-tempo’ runs on the track during the fall and winter off-season, recalls Bob Williams, who... MORE
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To write an article like this one, which outlines the ‘best’ workouts for running distances ranging from 400 metres up to the marathon, is a somewhat dangerous activity. After all, workouts do not exist in a vacuum, independent of the other things you do during your training. The best workout for you to carry out... MORE
For hundreds of thousands of years, humans have evolved to be either as strong or as tireless as possible, but not both. As Keith Baar explains, however, recent science has provided clues as to how to legally move past the obstacles that evolution put in the way of developing both strength and endurance Traditionally, the... MORE
The latest triathlon research and best practice findings, covering improving technique, strength and conditioning, and endurance nutrition
The latest findings from running science with practical advice showing you how you can run further and faster whilst staying in peak health
