muscles, decreasing muscle efficiency, and causing that awful burning sensation. Here’s the key: to improve your racing, you need to do sessions that increase your lactate-transport potential. Over the years, these sessions have been described by almost
Devising training sessions is easy. Anyone can come up with a plan that sounds great. Take my old high school track coach, for example. Way back in the mid-1960s, he ordered us distance runners to do 10x400 metres, each in 60 seconds. That’s what US
compared to two other sports-specific recovery drinks," says Dr Emma Stevenson, Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Nutrition at Northumbria University.On three separate days, nine male cyclists did an energy-depleting exercise session, followed by four hours
no evidence that these supplements benefit exercisers." Fifteen years ago, Powers used to take a variety of supplements. Now he just has a daily multivitamin. "It takes only five sessions for the body to increase its production of protective antioxidant
performance laboratory.Ask yourself the following question: at what pace or paces should I train to maximise my fitness and my running performance? If you can answer this question, you have the key to a successful training programme.Over the past 25 years
This extract is from The Runner's World Complete Book of Running by RW USA Editor Amby Burfoot. You can now preview it, free, for two weeks without risk or obligation. All running programmes for beginners are the same: they move you from walking
improving,” says Arbogast. “The key is to stay healthy and keep gaining endurance.”What you should do Do most of your runs at 80 per cent of the speed you could race the same distance. So, if you can race 10 miles at 7:30 pace, you should do your 10-mile
