Strength Training

Inspiratory Muscle Training Benefits

The Proven Benefits of Inspiratory Muscle Training

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Inspiratory muscle training, also called respiratory muscle or breathing training, is a special form of resistance training for increasing the strength and fatigue resistance of your inspiratory muscles. Despite having a sizeable amount of research supporting its effectiveness for runners, cyclists, and swimmers, it’s not widely used by endurance athletes. In this article, we’re going …

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Downhill running training for strength

Research Focus: The Surprising Strength Benefits of Downhill Running

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As runners, we are constantly looking for novel ways to increase performance. Searching for workouts that will produce big results and take our running to new heights. Often we fixate on finding tougher, more challenging workouts — more intense, higher resistance, longer duration, etc — to achieve bigger and better training effects.  Strength training is …

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Do Altitude Training Masks Work

DO ALTITUDE TRAINING MASKS ACTUALLY WORK?

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Altitude training masks are designed to make breathing more difficult when exercising. The idea being that this strengthens your respiratory muscles and improves cardiovascular fitness and efficiency. It’s also claimed that they can simulate the effects of altitude training. But is that really the case? And do they provide any benefit for endurance athletes?… So, …

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Benefits of foam rollers

Foam Rollers Reduce DOMS, Improve Recovery and Exercise Performance

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Foam rollers are a great tool for releasing muscle tension and restoring ‘normal’ functional length to your muscles. Whether you’re recovering from an injury, looking to reduce the risk of injury, or wanting to speed up exercise recovery, a foam roller will be a useful addition to your warm up and post-exercise routine. What are …

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Strength training benefits endurance athletes

Maximizing the benefits of strength training for endurance athletes

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Whilst it’s clear that strength training provides a great benefit to endurance athletes, it can be difficult to incorporate strength training into an endurance training program without causing some disruption to the existing program. This disruption can be minimised, to an extent, by ensuring you perform strength training a couple of days before interval training, …

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Strength Training – Why it’s important for Endurance Athletes

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It always surprises me how few endurance athletes utilise strength training as part of their overall endurance training program. This is unfortunate since there is a large amount of scientific research supporting the benefits of strength training for endurance athletes. Before taking a look at the benefits of strength training for endurance athletes I’ll start …

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Plyometric training improves endurance running performance

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To run well, it takes far more than just running. Sometimes, we have to train in ways that may seem counterintuitive to our normal training methods. One example is plyometric training — exercises involving fast explosive jumps, hops, skipping and bounding. On the surface, running and plyometrics are at opposite ends of the training spectrum: …

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