The ultrarunning posts discuss topics related to ultrarunning such as nutrition, race preparation, sports psychology, trail running skills, training and injury prevention.
The repeated bout effect is all about preparation. Once you’ve trained your legs for the downhills, you’re likely to experience less soreness, less muscle damage and a smaller loss of function, especially in the later miles of a trail ultra.
Fitting every athlete into the same training system does a disservice to the athlete’s needs, goals and performance potential. By taking four areas into consideration, we can customize each training plan to the individual athlete.
This case study demonstrates that bone mineral density can remain stable across a competitive season, despite repeated exposure to extreme endurance stress.
Lactate is a naturally occurring metabolite in the metabolic conversion of glucose into energy. When energy demands increase, it’s matched by a corresponding rise in lactate production. But when levels appreciably accumulate, lactate becomes a performance limiter. Here’s what you need to know.
How to spot decoupling in an athlete’s training data, and evidence-backed strategies to train durability for trail ultrarunning.
Why runners fade in trail ultras can be explained by an athlete’s durability, meaning their ability to maintain performance as fatigue accumulates. This article explores the concept of durability and why performance tests aren’t predictors of ultrarunning success.
This article examines the history of heat acclimation research, the physiological adaptations that occur with heat exposure, and how both passive and active heat training can be used to improve endurance performance in real-world settings.
Commonly mis-defined and misunderstood, find out what functional training actually is and why it is critical to endurance sports performance.
Zone 2 is a trendy topic but how do you sift through all of the discussion to come to the right conclusions? We approach this topic through the lens of what we know scientifically, and a dose of reality to identify what coaches and athletes really need to understand.
Traditional methods of periodization are commonly known and applied. But what about ‘reverse periodization?’ What is it; when and how should it be applied? We break it down for you here.
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