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Operation: Improve Your Running
By Dominique Brady on 20/09/2010 15:52:58
Push yourself to racing glory with a dose of hard-earned military know-how - including British Military Fitness’s top five exercises.
When survival depends on personal fitness, it is imperative that the British military personnel are kept at their physical peak. Running plays a big part in army aerobic training, and interval training is key in keeping our troops combat-ready.There's certainly no slacking when i...
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Running Psychology: Improve Your Performance
By Runner's World on 02/11/2009 08:32:55
How do you manage your emotions while running? Take out the guesswork by participating in this new research project
We've been asked to help find hundreds of runners for a new research project into psychological states while running. Read on to discover how you could learn about some innovative techniques to improve your running experience and get personalised
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Fast Lane: Improve Your Muscles
By Ed Eyestone on 28/02/2008 17:50:02
Train yourself to run with more muscle
Runners usually talk about muscles in terms of quads, glutes and hamstrings. Exercise physiologists, on the other hand, talk about muscles in terms of fast-twitch and slow-twitch fibres - which is one of the reasons why physiologists aren't invited to many parties. Most of our 6...
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Fast Lane: Double Your Endurance
By Ed Eyestone on 25/02/2008 17:13:51
Improve your VO2 max and run better and faster than ever
into a seven per cent improvement, or 90 seconds for a 20-minute 5K. A moderately fit runner can increase VO2 max by as much as 25 per cent (to estimate yours, see 'What's your number?' below). Exercise physiologist Veronique Billat found
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Heart Rate Training: Monitoring Your Progress
By Joe Dunbar on 05/06/2000 10:54:31
Your heart rate is a reliable means of measuring your improvement
You need more than one-off snapshots of your fitness levels to assess your progress properly. Races and time trials are reasonable guides to how things are developing, but they vary too much to be really useful. Races also rely on maximal effort, which is greatly influenced by th...
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Reader to Reader: Train less, run faster?
By Catherine Lee on 11/06/2007 11:26:59
Can you improve on fewer sessions per week? Here's what you thought
Reducing your level of training to improve your race times might seem counter-intuitive but research exists to suggest that in fact, less can sometimes be more. This week’s reader is keen to put this theory into practice - can you help him strike
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Kick The Habit (Preview)
By Matt Barbour on 17/06/2008 09:38:44
Take your running up a gear with these six simple fixes to the most common mistakes (non-subscriber preview)
could sideline you for weeks. Improved flexibility also shortens recovery time; looser muscles are more receptive to glycogen replacement, which accelerates healing, says Richard Holt, expert running coach for www.momentumsports.co.uk. BREAK IT: Your
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Kick The Habit
By Matt Barbour on 17/06/2008 08:57:04
Take your running up a gear with these 14 simple fixes to the most common mistakes
could sideline you for weeks. Improved flexibility also shortens recovery time; looser muscles are more receptive to glycogen replacement, which accelerates healing, says Richard Holt, expert running coach for www.momentumsports.co.uk. BREAK IT: Your
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Set Realistic Goals And Achieve Them
By Ben Hewitt on 02/01/2007 08:57:17
Improve your sprint finish, injury-proof your body, better your pace... let us help you set realistic goals and show you how to achieve them
Goal - Improve your sprint finishMany runners think a strong sprint finish is all about the end of a race. In reality, it’s more about how you prepare for and run the beginning and middle of a race. That’s because you have to have something left
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Time Trial Training
By Nick Morgan on 06/12/2007 16:42:22
Inject some heat into winter mornings with a time trial to boost your speed and keep you on your feet
’ve finished, check your watch – your time is your benchmark. After two weeks of solid training, try the same run again and see how much you’ve improved. Suddenly you’re not just plodding or base-building; you’re progressing, and the evidence is right in front
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