When we runners think of fatigue, we tend to think only about our muscles. But the reality is that the brain, like muscle, can also experience physical fatigue. To make things simple, fatigue can generally be classed as either PERIPHERAL FATIGUE, relating to our skeletal muscles, or CENTRAL FATIGUE, relating… Read More »DOES THE BRAIN FATIGUE WHEN RUNNING? CENTRAL FATIGUE VS PERIPHERAL FATIGUE
0.6 seconds. That’s all that separates these two athletes over 800m. And yet, they achieved this through completely different styles of training. On the one end, we have Donovan Brazier who claims to have never run further than 12km in training (his weekly mileage ranges between 40-56km or 25-35miles). At… Read More »INDIVIDUALISATION
At its core, training is a balancing act between the different aspects of performance and endurance. We choose to focus on certain types of workouts at the expense of others – speed vs. endurance, quantity vs. quality, and so on. But in an ideal world, we want to be in… Read More »DON’T PUT ALL YOUR EGGS IN ONE BASKET
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Running Science (@runningscienceza) on Jan 19, 2020 at 9:03am PST We believe that a runner’s stride begins at the hips, as the position your hips are in influences just about everything in the way you run. So lets briefly… Read More »THE IMPORTANCE OF HIP EXTENSION
Your best bet to preventing exercise-associated muscle cramping: If you had to think back to the last time you cramped during a run, most of you will have an underlying similarity – your muscles were fatigued. It’s likely that they weren’t just fatigued, but fatigued beyond what they’re used… Read More »HOW TO PREVENT CRAMPING