Training Articles - Physiology
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Articles - Physiology
- The best way to develop your athlete's
Energy Pathways
Advice on the body's energy pathways and how to develop them
- Get to know your muscle fibres
The major structural, physical, biochemical and energetic characteristics of muscles
- It is all in the shape
An overview of the three body types - Endomorph, Mesomorph and Ectomorph
- Lactate - what is it?
An overview of the body's energy systems and the foe of all endurance athletes - Lactic Acid
- The Truth about stretching
A review of the research work conducted on static and dynamic stretching
- Adaptation of bone to exercise
An explanation of how exercise is beneficial to bone development
- Pronation, Supination and choosing the
right footwear
An overview of the foot conditions, prevention and treatment of pronation and supination
- Physiology and injury prevention
How an understanding of physiology can help keep you injury free
- How to lose fat without losing
muscle
The secret to losing fat without losing muscle starts with not being too aggressive or extreme with your reduction of carbohydrates.
- Keep Kids off of Machines!
The reasons why we should limit the use of machine-based training with young athletes
Literature Reviews - Physiology
- From Ironman to iron in man
- It still holds: 'Train don't strain…'
- Real men eat fat
- Training loads and energy systems
- What is the pace for success?
- Muscling in on speed
- Anaerobic assessment and recovery
- Measuring creatine levels
- Mystery solved - why women don't feel pain!
- Amino Acids - from myth to legend
- Men and women are different!
- Aerobics energy system
- Laying down the gauntlet for women
- Cool running not inhibited by dehydration
- Have you got the stomach for endurance?
- Pound for pound - women trainable as men!
- Swim training - take your breath away!
- Ultra marathon runners are all heart
- Elite gain more endurance capacity!
- Vigorous exercise is healthy
- The appliance of science
- Getting specific
- Barriers no obstacle for women steeplechasers
- Young athletes are incomplete
- Females do not need to change their diet for endurance - just eat more carbs…
- …but for strength, the opposite may apply
- Sprinters enjoy great old age
- Marathon runners access fast twitch fibers through current practice
- Anaerobic training for pace changes
- Check your energy system training goals
- Factors affecting pulmonary oxygen uptake
- Testing for peak oxygen uptake
- Short reps do not affect muscle buffer capacity in females
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