-old battle with quantity amongst those in the know. So why not try something a bit different to inject some heat into your winter training schedule – the time trial.The first thing to understand about the time trial is that it’s not a race, or doesn’t have

Can you turn your one-hour lunch break into an effective training session? There's no reason why not, but if you're going to make it to the gym, pool or out for a run and be back at your desk within the hour, it's crucial to make the best use

select set of training aids, along with interval training and drills, will help to fine-tune your technique. Whether you're a beginner or an elite swimmer, there are certain items you should have in your swim bag. Training aids improve technique, develop

You know it all too well: that awful moment when overworked lungs and leaden lower limbs combine to create an overbearing desire to S-L-O-W  D-O-W-N. When the burden of placing one foot in front of the other grows intensely with every limping stride and you reach the end of your ...

or heading out to visit friends instead of training twice a day.After our run, we head out too. We’re going to visit another famous training camp in the area: Kipchoge Keino’s High Performance Training Centre in Eldoret. When we arrive at the camp, coach

I’ve come to Iten, a small village overlooking the Great Rift Valley, to discover why Kenyan runners are so dominant right now. The benefits of training at altitude play their part – we’re at 2,400m, which means that walking upstairs causes the kind

into proper training, but on other days you just plod round your circuit feeling awful and wishing it was over. The most likely causes of this problem are overtraining and boredom.Rest is important: if you don’t give your body enough time to recover from

UAN:250 Article type:--Many runners know exactly what they should eat and when they should eat it. It’s the practical application of this theory that messes them up. You are either ravenous when you don’t want to be – during training

By using a heart rate monitor while you train, you'll know exactly what impact your workout is having.Unlike trying to judge your own efforts, your heart rate is a completely objective measure of how hard you're working, so you'll be able to fine

Whether you call it tempo running or anaerobic, lactate or ventilatory threshold training doesn’t matter. Threshold training works, and adding it to your schedule is sure to make you faster and more efficient in endurance races.Threshold training