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Category: Fitness and Health

All the great articles from the ‘Fitness and Health’ category of the Elite Outdoor Fitness blog all in one place.

Nicks Shocker Session Deadlifts vs Sprints

Nick gives and insight into one of his shocker sessions normally performed twice, this is one of the basic routines to increase capacity mid-way through his training cycle.

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Racing Pressure

Racing Pressure

In this audio, Speedy shares his experience of racing pressure as a young international runner.

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Basic Strength and conditioning Progression

Basic Strength and Conditioning Progression

Nick explains how to progress when training, specifically in strength and conditioning. Most people don’t reach their potential when starting from the basics.

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Antagonistic training and becoming lean

Antagonistic training and becoming lean

Nick explains how basic strength and conditioning training will help you lose weight, get lean and feel good without spending lots of time training.

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What Motivates you in training – Nicks overview

Why I train

Nick shares his reasons for training, his motivation throughout his life and how he focusses on his own training goals .

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How not to train

How not to train

Nick describes how not to train, specifically talks about EOF structure and the principles of training to ensure your training correctly and maximising the benefits.

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Motivation and consistency

Motivation

This is probably the most important factor to consider when wanting to get fit or progress as an experienced athlete.

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Lifestyle changes

Lifestyle Changes

In this article we look at the small increases in fitness and health that can be hugely beneficial.

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How, when and why

In this article Nick covers the how, when and why of training.

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Can’t sleep after a training session?

Sleep

Can’t sleep after a training session? You are not alone. Here’s how to make sure your sleep and recovery isn’t ruined by your training sessions.

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Components of Physical Fitness 

Components of fitness

It is fundamentally important to understand what you want to achieve and then set out a plan on how you are going to achieve this goal.

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Benefits of Bike hill reps

Bike hill reps

Providing insight into why and how bike hill reps can work as a cross training session for runners. Working slow and fast twitch muscle fibres at all levels. Breaking tempo sessions down into T1, 2 and 3.

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Body systems

body systems

When we train there are a number of different systems in the body that are all working together to aid what we are trying to achieve.

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Include progressive programming through strength and conditioning to improve your baseline S&C and robustness at a tendon, ligament, and muscular level. Move through running, cross country running and then fell running to allow the adaptations in your balancing muscles and coordination and thus agility. Advanced strength training to improve capacity to include training with weight over undulating ground when you are capable and efficient, to hill reps and weighted tempo sessions to build that strength lactate threshold and multi-system taxing above and beyond weight and duration of event.
Progressive running program to include cross training such as Bike work and strength and conditioning.
Inclusion of progressive Bergen weighted work on inclines at speed for tempo rate sessions to improve strength and lactate threshold, shorter duration rep work to improve VO2 max and power rate.
Quality speed work program with and without weight to improve your flat speed. Inclusion of some interval and tempo work on inclines. Cross country running to hit balancing muscles and improve coordination and overall flat speed. Later progress tempo into longer speed for endurance sessions.
Progression onto fell running with and without weight to improve strength and conditioning and power, thus allowing latter sessions to work hard off the beaten track to facilitate efficiencies at a coordination and balance level. Hill work with weight. Include cross graining on fitness days with weight or fell running, working hard on down hills.
Lighter inclusion into off road/track fell running to improve conditioning leg strength and balance. Progressive program to set training targets above goal weight and duration to improve capacity at higher rate.
Work hard at improving VO2 max and Lactate threshold levels, shorter power sessions to include hill reps, tempo work and strength and conditioning cross training such as inclusion of jump squats and burpees into interval sessions. Working towards speed over distance training between 1-3 miles x 4 with efficiency rate recoveries.
Increasing long slow distance, hill work and endurance sessions to allow for Mitochondria efficiency and increase. Progressing into heavy weighted hill running emphasis on incline and decline speed and efficiency midline rate. Progressing to be able to put the power down for extended periods. Strength and conditioning reducing in the latter period to take up the slack on increased capacity building.
Baseline strength and conditioning to improve flexibility, strength and coordination moving to deficit style training to explore capabilities before failure. Multi-disciplined training sessions to allow for multi system taxing.

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