by drkeith | Jun 6, 2019 | Training, Uncategorized
Nine years ago I was in the United States, and was talking with a very good Lydiard-based coach who was amazed at the improvement in his athletes’ general immune health and training ability when he replaced their anaerobic threshold tempo run that was formerly done...
by drkeith | Jun 5, 2019 | Training
There’s a world of difference between talent and skill. Talent implies natural ability. There are plenty of talented athletes who never make it to the level of performance their inherent talent seems to indicate they are capable of. Skill implies a trained ability. In...
by drkeith | May 15, 2019 | Training, Uncategorized
How much sugar does your body really need at any one time? If you believe the manufacturers of sports drinks, athletes need far more glucose than is required for simple good health. Our body is actually designed to run very efficiently on a TOTAL blood glucose of...
by drkeith | Apr 5, 2019 | Energy Systems, Training, Uncategorized
There are two main energy systems and two distinct muscle fibre types involved in all endurance exercise. By far the most important energy system to train for endurance is the vast aerobic fat-burning system. The muscle fibre type most associated with fat-burning...
by drkeith | Mar 23, 2019 | Training
At a training talk, a keen young athlete asked me what the best way to train Max VO2 was. He said he was told by his coach to “go and do a few 1000m reps at your best 3000m race pace, with about equal time jogging recovery in between hard efforts”. Somehow his coach...
by drkeith | Mar 1, 2019 | Training
It sounds ridiculously simple, but many great athletes or their coaches have failed on the major stage because they forgot one simple thing. That simple, major thing is called R-E-S-T. It’s a four-letter word to some hardened athletes or their coaches, so used to hard...