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Enduring Questions: Is Chocolate Good For You?
By Amby Burfoot on 15/05/2007 10:27:23
Chocoholics rejoice - there's increasing evidence that a little of the brown stuff does more good than harm (non-subs preview)
in Baltimore in the US announced a study that showed a small amount of chocolate slowed platelet clumping. Platelets are important blood cells that promote the formation of blood clots – useful when it comes to limiting blood loss from a wound, but not so good
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Double Your Endurance
By Amby Burfoot on 10/05/2005 16:11:47
A preview for non-subscribers: seven simple plans to double your endurance
. The next week, start building again, one mile at a time: eight miles, nine miles, etc.Plan Two – Run Yasso 800sWe learnt about this amazingly useful work-out in a casual conversation with RUNNER’S WORLD USA Race And Event Promotions Manager Bart Yasso
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Enduring Questions: How Lactate Makes A Run Better
By Amby Burfoot on 07/10/2005 09:38:03
It makes your legs burn and can ruin a run, but lactic acid is just misunderstood
used to provide energy, burn dietary carbohydrates, produce blood glucose and liver glycogen, and promote survival in stressful situations."Brooks calls all these goings-on the "lactate shuttle" or "lactate transport system." What he’s saying
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Enduring Questions - Are Free Radicals Harmful?
By Amby Burfoot on 05/12/2006 11:18:36
Should you be afraid of free radicals? Running produces them, illness is caused by them, antioxidants combat them. Or maybe not
of apples and red onions. He won't discuss the preliminary results, but hints that "the current trend, if it continues and is replicated, could make people sit up and take notice".One American company, FRS Energy, has already begun to promote quercetin. Its
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Enduring Questions: Is Chocolate Good For You?
By Amby Burfoot on 14/05/2007 12:17:13
Chocoholics rejoice - there's increasing evidence that a little of the brown stuff does more good than harm
in Baltimore in the US announced a study that showed a small amount of chocolate slowed platelet clumping. Platelets are important blood cells that promote the formation of blood clots – useful when it comes to limiting blood loss from a wound, but not so good
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Enduring Questions: Can Hills Make You Faster?
By Amby Burfoot on 07/07/2005 10:23:42
Some runners avoid hills because they can cause injuries and they're, well, hard. Time to reconsider
that promotes Lydiard's training methods (www.fivecircles.org). While New Zealand runners no longer rule the track, they have continued to excel on hills. A native of Wellington, Derek Froude followed Lydiard's principles with zeal. He ran a 2:11 marathon
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Enduring Questions: Should I run naked?
By Amby Burfoot on 15/05/2008 17:21:53
US Editor At Large Amby Burfoot looks at the hydration and heat challenges facing summer marathon runners
of my drinking and sodium needs," says Culpepper.SuperhydrationStoring extra water would be nice, but runners aren’t camels. Still, two simple substances seem capable of promoting superhydration: common salt, and glycerol – a legal supplement. A New
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Double Your Endurance
By Amby Burfoot on 10/05/2005 16:02:25
Introducing the wonders of the running world - seven simple plans to double your endurance
with RUNNER’S WORLD USA Race And Event Promotions Manager Bart Yasso, and first wrote about it nearly a decade ago. Since then, literally thousands of runners have told us, at pacing runs or in e-mails, that the programme has worked for them. With the Yasso
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