Women are not small men. Some of you may be familiar with this phrase as made famous by Dr. Stacy Sims, a leading researcher on female physiology and endurance. This statement could not be more true. Though some women may train just the same as their male counterparts, the truth is our physiology differs from theirs in more ways than …
Most endurance athletes leave their foot on the accelerator and rarely take it off in the search of training harder, faster, and longer. What we don’t realize is that the key to unlocking our full potential lies in our ability to recover from our hard efforts. Most of us have heard this before, but not all of us have actually …
The first step in getting to a destination is knowing where you are. That’s what fitness testing is all about. Not only do fitness tests allow you to get a sense of your current level of conditioning, but they also personalize the targets in your workouts so you get the most out of the time you have to train. Why …
When it comes to your training there is a time and place where sessions go. You have weekly training blocks that build into months of periodization, and these periodized blocks are the foundation of yearly cycles of improvement. You don’t (well most of us don’t!) haphazardly throw in hard sessions or easy sessions whenever you want, especially if you are …