I am going to write down four words in a second, and if they register as familiar to you then you are of a certain age. You will be somebody who taped the Top 40 on a Sunday night, you will have at some stage attempted to reconstitute a “Vesta” dried Chinese meal, and you will only ever describe carpet deodorant as “Shake N Vac”. Here we go:
“Central heating for kids…”
Back in 1976 it was common place to feed your children with a powdered food source that resulted in them
I have completed my research project into the common patterns of Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) and higher intensity paddle boarding. We all get DOMS. It’s not an injury, or a sign of weakness, or age, or fragility. It is a physiological and structural muscular response to an overload effort that has take that muscle group beyond it’s current threshold capacity. You get more of this sciencey talk in the research write up so be sure to click it. Seriously though DOMS is considered as part of the adaptive response
Throughout my blogs I have often tried to help you declutter your training habits and programme. Essentially strip it back to what works and spend less time faffing. I’m not really bothered about the cost of the foam rollers, trackers, supplements, compression garments and magnetic wristbands. Or the potions, lotions, isotonics and sachets of magic rocket fuel. Nobody is forced into these purchases. But I worry about the faffing. To be more accurate I worry that the athletes I work with, and know, are worrying about all this “stuff”, when
Sometimes in this job you get asked what appear to be really simple questions that should require equally simple solutions. One of the most common is when an athlete asks: “what is cramp and how can I stop it?”. It’s a killer question. If it is posed in a phone conversation I will make some random crackling sounds, tap my phone on the table, mumble “I’m losing you”, and go for the red button. Terrible reception round here. If it’s face to face I have thought about feinting, or asking
When it comes to your running training it’s easy to become part of the machine. Habitual behaviour becomes common place. It would do though… you are training, using repeated exposure, building a base, pushing your threshold, recording, repeating and re-evaluating. Some of the habits are good habits, and some of them are plain necessary to best assist the process. But the focus can get obsessively narrow. The things that count. Or rather the things that can be counted. The metrics. Distance, time, pace per mile, laps, frequency, weekly mileage, heart
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