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Sport Science

A scientific perspective of legs strength training for distance running

It is well known that strength training for distance runners provides a number of benefits that should be taken into consideration by both novel and more experienced runners. Primarily, strength training increases your strength and power, which will have a direct impact on your running performance. It also increases your running economy, which means you’ll be able to run faster with the same effort. Finally, … Continue reading A scientific perspective of legs strength training for distance running

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Sport Science

The manual of the Elite runner: a review of the state-of-the-art training characteristics

In this post, we are going to review and analyze the training habits and training principles of some Elite World-class long-distance runners. Our goal is to understand what makes those athletes reach such high-performance levels by combining scientific literature and practice-based proven results. Most of the content comes from the paper: The Training Characteristics of World-Class Distance Runners: An Integration of Scientific Literature and Results-Proven … Continue reading The manual of the Elite runner: a review of the state-of-the-art training characteristics

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Experiences

The training schedule of a Spartan in China amid Covid-19

This post is a sort of diary that records all of my training and races from January 2021 to July 2021 when I was in China during the Covid-19 pandemic. Due to an incident during an ultra-trail race in the province of Gansu at the end of May 2021 that provoked the death of many runners, most of the races that had to take place … Continue reading The training schedule of a Spartan in China amid Covid-19

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