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Category: Top Tips

All the great articles from the ‘top-tips’ category of the Elite Outdoor Fitness blog all in one place.

How to increase your weekly mileage

Increase you mileage

Nick explains how to increase your weekly mileage, how this can affect your overall fitness gains, how you can deploy progressive tactics with supplementary training, am pm sessions and managing your expectations.

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Shoulder Impingement

Shoulder Impingement

Nick shows a good way to reduce, fix or help discomfort of shoulder impingement

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Basics How to do press ups and pull ups

Nick explains how a novice or someone coming back into strength training can approach the basic movements to force strength without putting too much pressure on joints.

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Accountability

In this video Nick explains the importance of adding accountability to your training to ensure you are accountable or feel accountable for the training and progress you are making; how Remote Training can help you with this.

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Training and Emotional Balance

Emotinal Balance

Nick explains the generic way that most people train and why lack consistency because of plateauing in training, and thus having imbalance at a hormone level.

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Strength and Conditioning for Runners

Strength and Conditioning for Runners

Nick explains the best way to build strength and conditioning into a runners schedule and how to start using basic compound movements.

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How to do press ups and pull ups

Push ups and Pull ups

Nick explains how you can approach the basic movements to force strength without putting too much pressure on your joints.

Posted in Fitness and Health, Fundamentals of training, How-To, Top TipsTagged compound movements, press up, pull up, strength trainingLeave a comment

1st Person Mental Rehearsal

Mental Preparation for an Event

The second in a series of short videos that look at how to mentally prepare for any event.

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Performance vs balanced food supplementations

Food Supplements

How do you supplement your diet, what should you be considering in eating as part of a balanced diet when your training?

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Reducing the risk of runner’s knee

Reducing the risk of runner’s knee

Nick explains how he has reduced the likeliness of runner’s knee. A common injury in runners when increasing load and yet it’s easy to mitigate against it.

Posted in Fitness and Health, How-To, Mobility and Stretching, Physio, RTG, Top TipsTagged Iliotibial band, knee injury, Physiotherapy, Runners knee, StretchingLeave a comment

3rd Person Mental Rehearsal

Mental Preparation for an Event

The second in a series of short videos that look how to mentally prepare for any event.

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Goal Specifics and The Achiever’s Identity

Mental Preparation for an Event

The first in a series of short videos that look how to mentally prepare for any event.

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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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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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Running kit

running kit

In this audiobook Nick covers the basics of running kit. What’s running kit essential and what’s nice to have?

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Arctic Cold Weather Drills

Cold Weather Drills

The arctic is a stunning environment to operate in, the skills and drills you learn there are massively transferable. Things can take a little longer to do, so your personal admin needs to be slick otherwise that time delay can see your core temperature drop. In order to retain heat in the core, your body

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Body Systems

This audio book explains the bodies systems and how the influence how we train and race

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Aerobic vs Anaerobic

Aerobic and Anaerobic systems

Audio book explaining the difference between Aerobic and Anaerobic systems and training those systems.

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Breathing

This audio book explains the importance of breathing and what the effects are at a cellular level when carrying out activity.

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Stick to the plan

Stick to the plan

In this audiobook Nick covers the importance of sticking to a plan, when it comes to your training.

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Endurance Performance and Lactate Threshold

Endurance

This audio book explains the science behind lactate thresholds and performance.

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Fuel, Hydration and Supplementation

hydration

This audio book explains the importance of hydrating and fuelling and the positive and negative effects relating to this.

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Heart rate watches

Heart Rates Watches

This audio book gives Nicks view and experience with using Heart Rate watches

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Does your chosen event or focus include inclines and declines?
Does your chosen event or focus require you to work across undulating rough ground, where foot placement can sometimes be rocky, poor ground underfoot?
Is your chosen event or focus under 12 miles?
Is your chosen event or focus on adventure type racing or assault course inclusion?

Your personalised recommendation...

The following recommendations are based on your answers. If you sign-up for any of our remote training groups (RTGs) one of our team will discuss your specific needs with you in more detail. This will ensure you get the maximum benefits to achieve your target.
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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