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Quality vs. Quantity

People often talk about ‘junk miles’ in endurance sports, referring to the volume you put in swimming, cycling or running that is done at a low to moderate effort and seemingly has no particular adaptation or point to it. Many coaches out there market themselves as coaches that cut out the junk work, and focus on [...]

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The Importance of a Good Base

Every winter, we all go into our ‘base’ training mode, but based on my experience over the years, very few people actually understand the purpose and specifics of base training. For most, base training is simply unstructured workouts and more often than not, a reason to take it nice and easy when you don’t feel [...]

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