I’ve Got Your 2019 New Year’s Resolution
I came home from my time with the Northern Arizona Elite professional running team last summer convinced that every serious athlete should carve out a little time each day for what
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Training science, coaching, and the 80/20 method — from Matt Fitzgerald and the 80/20 Endurance coaching team.
Mental Predictors of Physical Performance
Every endurance athlete is familiar with the idea that certain physiological tests can be used to predict endurance performance. For example, the classic VO2max test is a very reli
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Coaching the Coach: How I’m Training for My First Ironman in 17 Years
My 2010 book RUN: The Mind-Body Method of Running by Feel includes a chapter titled “Winging It” in which I advocate—for experienced athletes only—the practice of training without
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If I Only Had Room in My Suitcase for either the Lactate Threshold or the Ventilatory Threshold, I Would Pack the Ventilatory Threshold: Here’s Why
The lactate threshold gets so much attention in endurance sports that, despite its esoteric name, most athletes who have passed beyond the newbie stage are familiar with it. The te
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Macro Pacing: What It Is and Why It Matters
Ever since my book How Bad Do You Want It? was published in 2015 I’ve received a steady drip of emails from struggling high school runners, and occasionally also from their coaches
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Eating for Endurance: A Risk-Management Perspective
A few months back, the following tweet from triathlon legend Dave Scott caught my eye: It always amazes me how folks fear a new paradigm for sports nutrition. Unless you own a suga
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Book Review: Essential Sports Nutrition
There’s no evidence that P. T. Barnum actually said, “There’s a sucker born every minute.” But if he didn’t say it, he should have, because it’s true—there is a sucker born every m
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Is Periodization Overrated?
An interesting new study by researchers at the University of Western Australia investigated the effects of periodization in the training of runners. Periodization is the practice o
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80/20 Triathlon Is Here!
Several years ago I got an idea for a book called A High-Mileage Manifesto. The title pretty much says it all: It was intended to be a hard sell for high-volume run training and an
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A Message to Endurance Athletes Who Worry a Lot about Calories
I deal with a lot of athletes—mainly women—who worry a lot about calories. In particular, they worry about eating too much. As athletes, they fear that eating too much will negativ
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