Trust us: the T doesn't stand for torture. TRX is a revolutionary workout using straps and your own body weight to add resistance to dynamic stretches. It helps strengthen muscles, restore joint mobility and encourage good posture. "It's especially useful for injured runners in r...

1. SpeedThe Session: 4 x 40m sprints (with 3 mins recovery), then 4 x 300m sprints (with 6 mins recovery)Tony Minichiello says: "Speed training in heptathlon is crucial as there's an element of it in every event - just as there is in every race

by scribbling down notes in the margins of your training schedule." First defence: Track what you're really eating in a journal, or with free apps such as Weight Tracker for iPhone or Diet Point for Android. Beat it: If you really want to shift winter weight

of mental toughness is teaching the mind to do what it doesn't want to do - such as pushing through discomfort in a race. "I tell my athletes to give me their best even on their bad days," says Hebert. "This trains the mind to handle adversity and teaches

. Our Essential Marathon NewsletterOur free, weekly marathon email is designed to keep you on top of your training. Short enough to be readable, long enough to be useful, it contains at-a-glance schedules for every pace, themes and hurdles for the week

training camp in South Africa later that summer, designed to help eight young female runners on their journey to senior sport.Fast-forward almost eight years and now 59 young athletes are OCWK members - 45 female and 14 male. They attend a range

team Rabobank and Rebecca Romero, 2008 Individual Pursuit Olympic gold medallist, have both been using the powerBIKE™ in training. Rebecca uses the powerBIKE™ two or three times a week as a warm-up tool and hops on to help promote muscle recovery

accurate.Connect the Forerunner to your computer with the USB cable and track your training and racing career with the compatible Garmin Connect software.The battery lasts up to eight hours in training mode and two weeks in power-save mode and is easily

"When you're training, time is of the essence," says sports nutritionist Drew Price (drewprice.co.uk). "Nutrient timing is the secret weapon employed by professional athletes to fuel training and race day, and to support recovery. "Carbohydrate

prepare for an Ironman if I attempt some core exercises (a key part of the training) and then throw myself around an assault course several times, sometimes with a tyre on my shoulder. Given that training for an Ironman is very different from getting ready