Monitoring Recovery

Training without monitoring your progress is like driving with your eyes closed, you will get somewhere but you can’t be sure where or what shape you’ll be in when you arrive. Through daily monitoring you will be able to make the fine adjustments to your program that allow you to continue to progress and recover at the fastest rate possible.

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Is Cross Training a Good Idea for Runners?

Cross training gained popularity in the early 1980's primarily because of the sport of triathlon. Now athletes in most sports practice some form of cross training. While strength training, by some definitions, can be considered cross training, for the purpose of this article I will limit the discussion to aerobic training other than running. This article will discuss whether cross training is effective for runners, what cross training to incorporate into your training schedule and how to intergrate it.

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Are You Overtraining?

Overtraining is a period of prolonged fatigue where the athlete experiences plateaus or decreases in performance despite continued training (Mackinnon and Hopper, 1991; Stone et al.1991; Fry, Morton and Keast, 1991). Overtraining should not be confused with overload training, which is beneficial and necessary for an adaptation to occur.

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5 Rules of Heart Rate Monitoring

(This article was originally published in Independant Rowing News August 28, 1998) Scientists and coaches are constantly trying to find better, more efficient ways of training. Sometimes, outdated or inaccurate methods continue to haunt a sport and may actually be detrimental to the development of the athlete. Such is the case with heart rate monitoring.

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