In his recent Globe and Mail Jockology column, Alex Hutchinson@sweatscience (author of the book Endure) shared surprising new insight on the value of 'polarizing' your training routine. Run the harder workouts harder; run the easier workouts easier. Elite athletes have shown a consistent pattern of...
Insights: The early morning gifted us with good weather. Interval workout here I come! By stressing our capacity we can start to maximize our aerobic power. Hello intervals. Quite straightforward too: push the pace and briefly recover in between. I was on for six 600m repeats...
Over the years I have found great joy running outside through all seasons of the year. You can often hear me saying there is no such thing as bad weather only the wrong clothing. I still subscribe to that theory with one exception—ice. This winter...
Salty, Sweaty, Sort of Satisfied That's how I felt at the finish of my Speed Training today--Sept 21. Almost the first day of fall, and we were in a heat wave--19°C (feeling like 25°-28°C with 94% humidity). HOT! How It Began: Last night's 9 p.m. supper and then...
In his book The Ripple Effect, Greg Wells makes it clear. Speed training improves our performance and our overall health. 'Speed training will be a powerful way to improve both your overall fitness and specific fitness in your type 2 muscle fibres and the anaerobic system inside...