Recommended Reading

You teach your clients to lift a barbell, to swing on the rings, to walk on their hands. These movement patterns are learned. Many times Coaches will discuss Running with the same ideas in mind of teaching, training, improvement, etc. However, you will teach your client how to lift a barbell, [...]

Perception of Effort can be considered one of the main limiting factors in endurance performance. This is not really a controversial statement. What Samuele Marcora brings to the table with his research is a position that Perception of Effort (along with Potential Motivation) is THE most [...]

This month we will delve into a very important and sometimes contentious topic within fitness training. Namely, the concept of Periodization. Nowadays, many Coaches use that word but are not referring to the actual meeting and it’s historical precedent. They are merely describing their [...]

Recommended order of reading: Oxygen uptake kinetics as a determinant of sports performance Critical Power: An Important Fatigue Threshold in Exercise Physiology Power–duration relationship: Physiology, fatigue, and the limits of human performance Further reading: Peripheral Circulation Oxygen [...]