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  Make the most of your race fitness. Do your Research!
How would you react if I told you that I could knock a chunk of time off this year's performances without any extra training and without a trip to the pharmacist! |
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 Training with a Heart Rate Monitor Part 2; Using a Heart Rate Monitor During a Race
How to use your monitor during competition and how to interpret the data following the event |
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 Tough Guy Tips
Tips and advice on how to survive Tough Guy! |
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 Training and Racing with a Heart Rate Monitor (Part 1)
Heart rate monitors are perhaps the most widely used training tool with the world of endurance sport |
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 Nutrition for the ladies
While our nutrient needs are very similar to our male counterparts, there are a couple of issues worth noting |
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 Environmental influences on nutrition needs
Participating in AR abroad can also involve a change in the environment. So what effect will this have on your nutrition requirements? |
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 Dealing with Common Knee Injuries
Adventure sports and knee problems go hand in hand (please excuse that particularly messed-up anatomical image). |
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 Make your own race packs
Homemade sports drinks and snacks can be just as effective, not to mention cheaper, as those you buy in the shops. |
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 Racing the Polaris Challenge
When Ant and I walked away with a mixed category win and a second place overall in the summer Polaris Challenge last week, we were very happy bikers indeed! |
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 SOS Nutrition for when it all goes wrong
You’re having an off day or you’ve mistimed your food and drink intake, what should you do in times when things go just a little bit wrong |
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 Fitness Testing for AR, How & Why?
When most people think of fitness testing they think of blood pressure checks and health screening, as an adventure racer this may seem a little pointless |
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 The added extras - gels, supplements and powders
There are many products aimed at athletes and exercising bodies, each with claims of improving performance, delaying fatigue, aiding recovery or supporting your immune system |
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 Ankle Pain After Long Races
Extensor Tendonitis, the condition and its management |
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 Foot Healthcare During an Adventure Race
Foot problems are probably the biggest cause of withdrawals in long races and Martin Duggan's advice on avoiding them comes from 30 years of experience. |
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 All about hydration
The benefits of keeping hydrated around events include lowering your heart rate and core temperature, maintaining an ideal blood volume and delaying the time until fatigue sets in |
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 Preparing for the Devizes to Westminster
Some people refer it to as the equivalent of the "Mount Everest" of the canoeing world. Others refer to the atmosphere of the 4 day event as being comparable to the London marathon (but on water) ... |
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 Planning a schedule for adventure racing
To compete successfully in the sport of adventure racing you need the correct combination of fitness, technical ability and experience. |
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 Getting the energy during multiday events
Keeping your body and mind fuelled is critical but is also one of the toughest challenges of all. |
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 Dealing with Wilderness Emergencies
Experienced adventure racers know that when something goes wrong, getting yourself out of it will depend upon whether team members possess the right experience and skills. |
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 Flexibility for Adventure Racing
If you don't stretch before and after each session you are asking for trouble!! |
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 Supplying energy during a race and restocking afterwards
There are various factors which cause fatigue during endurance exercise and it comes as no surprise that running out of fuel is up there at the top. |
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 How Do You Get Started in Adventure Racing?
There is only so much research, reading, talking and procrastinating that you can do! |
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 Welcome to the Wonderful World of Adventure Racing
So what is adventure racing and why should you give it a go? |
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 Core strength routines – essential core exercises for adventure racers
Strength training for endurance athletes is a hot topic in the world of sports coaching, some people swear by it and others think it's pointless. |
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 Preparing for a race
Carb loading (or glycogen super-compensation) involves increasing your carb intake in the days before you take part in an AR or a long training session. |
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 Racing in Extreme Cold Conditions
British racer Russ Ladkin was on a steep learning curve when he raced the Speed Course at the Bergson Winter Challenge in Poland |
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 All about carbohydrates (a.k.a. carbs!)
Carbohydrate-rich foods are essential to any body, and even more so to an active body. |
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 Everyday Nutrition for Endurance Athletes
A varied, balanced diet providing a range of foods is crucial, no one food can do all of this on its own! |
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 3 S’s – A Special Forces Approach To Adventure Racing
When it comes to successfully performing under pressure, in adventurous, extreme and hostile environments, there are few more people who are better trained than members of our special forces |
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 Nervous Newbies to Confident Competitors
There was a variety of experience and skill levels amongst participants. Some had never raced before and were completely new to adventure racing. |
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 Fitness Assessment and Training Advice
A couple of weeks ago Jon Brooke, one of our gear testers, got himself 'hooked up' in the Sportstest fitness testing laboratory, with a view to establishing some training routines. |
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 Take Charge! Managing Your Emotions
Adventure races can be an emotional roller coaster, with many highs and lows. How you are feeling at any given time will significantly affect your level of performance. |
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 Seeing Is Believing! How To Use Visualisation Techniques
Visualisation and Mental Rehearsal are one of the most heard of, and most popular mental training techniques |
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 Ropes III - Ascending
I can not emphasise this enough – PRACTICE – abseiling really doesn’t require much skill but ascending a rope does. |
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 Ropes II - Abseiling
So now you should all be standing at the top of a precipice with your back to the fresh air. |
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 Ropes I - Equipment
A series of articles attempting to demystify the use of ropes in Adventure Racing. |
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 Set Goals to Succeed
Are You Navigating Your Way To Success In Life’s Great Adventure Race? |
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Are You Tough Enough ... Mentally!
Studies have shown that 85% of your success, depends primarily on your attitude rather than your aptitude |
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 Expedition Racing And Sleep Strategy
Their pre-race relaxation strategy was watching porn videos ,which kind of put me off my sandwiches, but I had a truly great time racing with them |
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 Team Assistants – The Roadies of Adventure Racing
Welcome to the wacky world of those sad individuals we all need but nobody really wants to be – the team assistant |
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 Paddling Your Own Canoe – Without Going Up The Creek
Water sections can provide some of the most exciting and memorable moments in adventure racing, from sea kayaking in the Atlantic Ocean in huge surf to rafting grade IV white-water. |
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 Ten Golden Rules of Solo Racing
You’re on a featureless moor in the pouring rain with two team-mates arguing about which way to go, thinking ‘If only I could get rid of those two idiots’ |
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 Going in the Right Direction
Navigation plays a crucial part in Adventure Racing but doing it consistently well can be very difficult. |
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 Mountain biking
Mountain biking forms an integral part of all adventure races. Strong teams can make up huge time advantages and good teamwork reaps rewards. |
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 You Can Lead a Horse to Water but ….
I didn’t know quite what I was letting myself in for. I’d never sat on a horse before – but I did know the front end bites and the back end kicks! |
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 Setting a Training Schedule
It is very difficult to set a training schedule for an adventure racer, especially in this day and age when people seem to work all the time. |
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 Team Work
It’s not difficult to see that activities/tasks are more efficiently done when people work together. The thing is, do we know what being a team player involves, and hence what makes good team work? |
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 20 Ways to Motivate Yourself
The hardest part of training is walking out of the door … So make it easy for yourself to do - enjoy it, get into a routine and be comfortable. If you do not enjoy it there’s little point. |
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 Doing the Legwork – Running
The broad spectrum of adventure races means that the type of running encountered can vary from short and fast stages to long 20 hour plus mountain sections. |
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 Planning a Team Training and Race Schedule
The success of any team requires careful and structured planning and in adventure racing this is even more important because of the diverse range of disciplines and athletes involved in the team. |
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