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Inside Story
By Matt Barbour on 04/09/2008 10:45:34
What exactly is going on under your body's bonnet as you move through the 26.2 miles of a marathon?
or so higher. "In the opening stages of a marathon, the heart rate of both men and women should climb to the plateau of about 140bpm, working at about 70 per cent of your maximum effort, a guide we use for testing new athletes' fitness," says Pedlar
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What’s The Damage?
By Roy Stevenson on 09/08/2010 14:06:25
Unless you’re a very lucky or very resilient triathlete you will suffer an injury at some point. The question is how to deal with it when it happens.
sure the injury is not flaring up. If you feel pain, try a different activity.Aim highTo maintain your fitness you'll need to exercise at a high intensity, so aim to get your heart working above 80 per cent of your maximum rate. This is difficult
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Quantity Control
By Ed Eyestone on 28/07/2003 17:53:26
There's truth in the saying that it's quality, not quantity that counts
of their maximum heart rate, a pace that quality-wise could be considered moderate.The key difference between the two groups was that the high-mileage group trained six days a week, while the low-mileage group only trained four days a week. On Mondays
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5K And 10K By The Numbers
By Doug Rennie on 06/05/2002 10:52:27
Want to break a 5K or 10K barrier? Here are exactly the schedules you need - based on your current race times
as it takes you to run the repetition and walk the last 50 metres of the recovery before starting the next effort. If you're using a heart-rate monitor, don't start the next rep until your heart rate drops to 120 (men) or 130 (women).Check your progress
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The Perfect Tempo Run
By John Hanc on 19/11/2007 12:24:14
The 'comfortably hard' run is the key to clocking your fastest time, at any distance
seconds to your 10K pace Heart Rate Run at 85 to 90 per cent of your maximum heart rate (use a heart-rate monitor to find out your max and to keep track on the run)Perceived Exertion An eight on a one to 10 scale (a comfortable effort would be a five
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49 Greatest Weight Loss Tips
By on 07/01/2011 13:21:31
Need to shift a few pounds? Make these easy changes to your diet – and watch the fat fall off!
to burn an extra kilo a month.3 Sip green tea. It contains a compound that reacts with caffeine to boost both fat oxidisation and resting metabolic rate by 20 per cent.4 Eat beans, such as the cannellini, haricot or kidney varieties. People who add them
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Race Day Pacing Strategies
By Alison Hamlett on 22/02/2007 15:16:43
On race day, smart pacing can make the difference between triumph and disaster. Reach your potential with these suggested strategies
, consider the pace you ran for your last 10-mile race or half-marathon. This pace is likely to be just below your lactate threshold, or roughly 80 to 85 per cent of your maximum heart rate, says Nick Anderson, the British cross-country coach. An even simpler
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Enduring Questions: Ageing And Slowing
By Amby Burfoot on 11/05/2006 11:30:06
Did you know that if you can run a four-hour marathon at age 30, you should be able to pip under 4:30 at age 49? Amby Burfoot examines how much you should expect to slow as you age
? When Einstein runners finish a session, they don't write essays or poems. They record their numbers. How far did I run today? What was the temperature and humidity? My pre- and post-run weight? My average and maximum heart rate? Mission impossible
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30 Best Training Tips - From the Forum
By Runner's World on 21/03/2005 15:40:17
Real-life tried and tested ways to improve your motivation, long runs, speedwork and more - from runners just like you
't get into the right rhythm, but now it's a piece of cake. It's helped convince me that I'm getting fitter too, as I can look back in my training log and see how my maximum heart rate for any particular run has decreased as the weeks have gone past
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Growing Young Gracefully
By John Bingham on 10/03/2003 12:35:33
Running can be the way to release the big kid inside you
tell them about perceived exertion. I even talk to them about intervals and about running at specific percentages of my maximum heart rate. But deep down I know that Im just having fun.I try hard to maintain the charade of adulthood while running
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