The 33Fuel Blog
If we’re smiling when running it not only shows that we’re enjoying ourselves, it could also help us perform betterIn a recent post on training motivation, 33Fuel co-founder Warren melded a quote from Irish endurance legend Gerry Duffy - “You don’t have to train, you get to train” - with the Latin phrase ‘memento mori’, which means [...]
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Endurance athletes are used to using heart rate per minute to monitor training, but new evidence suggests measuring heartbeats per mile could be even better…When you want to know how expensive your car will be to run, you ask about its miles per gallon, not its miles per minute, right? So why not take a [...]
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Endurance athletes are forever told that developing ‘strong core’ muscles will make them more robust, allowing them to train more consistently and produce better results. But today’s cautionary blog explains how that’s a bit of an oversimplification...First, the prologue. This blog is written from painful experience and is being typed at a standing desk with a large emerging [...]
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“You don’t have to train, you get to train”. This is a genius line I heard from Irish endurance legend Gerry Duffy, a man who transformed his own life and fitness and went on to win the first ever Deca Ironman race.That’s ten Ironman triathons, consecutively, over ten days. When it comes to training motivation, goal setting [...]
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The 80/20 model of polarised training has long been flagged at the the the best method to improve as an endurance athlete. But what is it, how do you adopt it, and what are the most common mistakes?
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