Month: November 2012
I Can Lead You To Water… But You Have To Drink It.
I’m a second generation professional coach and I often have this conversation with my Dad about the significance of a ‘good’ coach. Both of us agree that the importance of a good coach or trainer a totally overrated thing. Particularly in endurance sports, such as ours where racing is simple and tough, reliance on a […]
Training Advice: Post Training Food
When? Within 30 minutes of finishing training. Why so soon? In this 20-30 minute window the good nutrition has a chance to be absorbed by the body. If you wait too long the body goes into starvation mode. This is worse because it will hold onto everything it gets after this point. What? […]
Marathon Fever – Pay The Price
Sadly there will be no New York Marathon this year due to the natural disaster that occurred recently. Hopefully NYC can get back on it’s feet before too long and we’ll see a huge NYC Marathon in 2013. Now there has been plenty of noise around about people’s interest in running a Marathon in 2013. […]
Training Advice: “If they don’t kick they drown” – Laurie Lawrence
Today I was reading about the legendary swimming coach Laurie Lawrence. A favourite exercise that he would give to his charges was to strap on a weights belt and jump into the diving pool, with hands above their heads they would kick for half an hour, in order to keep their head above water. “Human […]