The moment the outside temperature drops a few degrees all the tempting voices that tell us we should be warm, comfortable and inside become louder and our training begins to look increasingly patchy. Add all these feelings of discomfort to the persistent myth than training in cold weather makes you more likely to catch a…
Staying sane during a lockdown is a matter of strategy and planning. Having a structured approach to your day, adding some exercise, nutrition and proper hydration doesn’t just happen. Normally there are external rhythms that dictate these things for us or, at the very least, they make them possible to happen. When we stay at…
By creating a fitness routine you provide yourself with a structured approach to gaining and then maintaining a strong, healthy body and a strong healthy mind.[1] Creating a structured fitness routine, of course, is easy. All you need is a coach, a nutritionist, several trainers who will design specific workouts, a sports psychologists or two…
[ad_1] Sleep is nature’s Borg Regeneration Pod. While many of our systems power down while we sleep many others power up so we barely save any energy at all between our sleeping and waking stage. While we are asleep our brains kick into high gear, doing a lot of housekeeping and repair in our mental…
Every competitive sporting event is fraught with pressure. The expectations of the crowd, the heat of the moment, the months of preparation and the desire to win conspire to create a heightened state of anxiety that persists and harms both the mind and body of athletes.[1] What’s more, it also seriously impacts their performance, robbing…
Despite having evolved to get about on two legs we all have to, at some point, learn to run properly. Walking, on the other hand, seems something we have evolved to do for over 6 million years. Because it feels so natural to us we frequently overlook its effectiveness as a means to improve our…
When it comes to developing functional strength, power, coordination and aerobic capability almost nothing beats running. So, what happens when it’s taken out of the equation? If for whatever reason we can’t run there are still things we can do to get the same benefits as running. Now however we will need to devote a…
[ad_1] In winter many of us suffer from colds, runny noses and sneezes. We feel generally bad because of that but we also feel bad knowing that we may have to stop training while we recover. While conventional wisdom says you shouldn’t train while you’re ill, the real question is at which point does training…
We are obviously born to breathe air. Just because we do something from birth doesn’t necessarily mean we are good at it. This is why we have science-backed articles on the correct way to breathe when you exercise and how to breathe when you exercise in order to get the most out of each workout….
Let’s start with a small experiment. Stand up straight. Move your left foot about a foot in front of your body so that your leg is in front of you, knee bent. Keep your right leg straight. Now swing it in a straight leg fashion and see how high it gets. Ideally, you want to raise…
