947 Ride Joburg: Indoor Cycling Training Tips
Spring is starting to spring and cyclists are beginning to look forward to the new season of racing. The first big, ‘National Classic Race’ is...
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Understanding VO2 Max
If, like many, you spent three weeks in July enthralled watching the Tour de France, you will have heard the metric VO2 Max referred to...
Mastering the Run-Through: A Key to Enhanced Performance and Injury Prevention
What exactly is a ‘run-through’? The name is derived from a component of a track athletes warm up where they do short, mild intervals to...
Mastering Foam Rolling: Essential Tips for Recovery and Injury Prevention
Foam rolling as a recovery tool, for injury prevention, or treatment of mild injury has become common practice amongst endurance and strength athletes alike. There...
Maximising Performance Through Drafting in Triathlon
Triathletes and cyclists will be very familiar with the term, ‘drafting’. It is a well known fact that sitting directly in the slipstream of another...
Improving Your Downhill Running Technique: Tips and Training Ideas
For most runners, downhills are where we recover and prepare ourselves for the next uphill. It is where we relax and allow our heart rates...
The Great Ice Debate: Recovery Strategies for Endurance Athletes
To ice or not to ice? A debate as old as time. Well, not really but it is definitely a hot topic amongst endurance athletes....
Mastering Open Water Swimming: Strategies for Pool-Trained Triathletes
One of the biggest understatements in endurance sports is, “open water swimming is not pool swimming.” Many triathletes put in hours and hours of training in...
Debunking the Lactic Acid Myth: Understanding DOMS and the Real Keys to Recovery
I recently saw a session upload on Strava, where a runner mentioned that were flushing out the lactic acid in an easy session, after having...
Super Shoes Unveiled: Revolutionising Running or Overhyped Expense?
What’s up with ‘Super Shoes’? Do they make the difference their manufacturers say they will? If so, is that only for the elite level runner...