Journal · Strength & Conditioning

Strength & Conditioning.

Posterior chain, tendons, and staying in one piece.

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All114 The Swim12 The Bike13 The Run11 Triathlon39 Strength & Conditioning13 The Mind26
Strength & Conditioning5 min read Inside an Unbroken Strength and Conditioning Session We lift, we do mobility, and then we lie on the floor in the dark and meditate. The last part is the reason the first part works, and it is the part nobody expects. Read the piece →
Strength & Conditioning5 min read How to Prepare Your Body for a 140.6 Ironman Your aerobic system will be ready months before your body is. Four structures decide whether you finish comfortably, and only one of them is trained by swimming, cycling or running. Read the piece → Strength & Conditioning5 min read Two Sessions a Week Is Enough. The reason most endurance athletes do no strength work is that the programmes they are given assume they have four hours. Here is what two honest sess Strength & Conditioning6 min read Posterior Chain Strength for Endurance Athletes Glutes, hamstrings, calves. The muscles that actually propel you are the ones that switch off when you sit down for a living, and nobody notices until Strength & Conditioning6 min read Why Tendons Adapt Slower Than Muscle The injury that arrives in month three is not bad luck. It is the predictable result of muscle adapting faster than the tissue that has to transmit th Strength & Conditioning7 min read Strength Training During Triathlon Race Season Athletes who lifted all winter quietly drop it as volume climbs, and by August they are fast and fragile. What the interference effect actually says. Strength & Conditioning5 min read Staying in One Piece for Eight Months Somewhere between 37 and 91 percent of triathletes pick up an overuse injury in a season. Most of them are created in the same eight-week window. Read the piece → Strength & Conditioning5 min read Core Training for Endurance Athletes: Not Just Abs Nobody has ever run faster because of a stronger six pack. What endurance athletes actually need is a trunk that refuses to move while the limbs do th Strength & Conditioning5 min read Plyometrics for Endurance Athletes Without Injury The highest-value stimulus for tendon stiffness is also the fastest way to injure yourself. The difference is dose, surface, and what day of the week Strength & Conditioning6 min read RED-S in Endurance Athletes: Signs and Prevention Under-fuelling is the most common cause of stubborn injury I see, and it almost never gets named, because every symptom has a more comfortable explana Strength & Conditioning5 min read You Run on One Leg at a Time. Squat with both legs and the strong side quietly carries the weak one. You will never find that out until it fails at kilometre thirty of a race. Strength & Conditioning4 min read Do You Need to Be Skinny to Do an Ironman? No. And the pursuit of race weight ruins more seasons than it improves, because of a mechanism most athletes have never had explained to them. Read the piece → Strength & Conditioning5 min read Zone 2 Won't Save Your Knees. Why aerobically fit triathletes still get injured. Cardiovascular capacity and structural robustness are different things, and only one protects your

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