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Category: Weighted fitness

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

Weighted Fitness or Bergen Training Tips

Top Tips Weighted Bergen Fitness Video

Bergen or weighted fitness training is incredibly effective in supporting you to meet your overall fitness goals, but you need a strategy! In this video, Nick covers some expert tips

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1 mile Bergen Weighted Hill Reps

1 mile Bergen Weighted hill reps

Nick explains how to incorporate Bergen hill reps into your training program and what adaptations these sessions will make. How this also effects what components of physical fitness you are

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Bergen Training Multi System Taxing

Bergen Training

Nick explains how Bergen work and weighted fitness can tax or cause effect against multiple systems compared to non-weighted events and training. The importance of recognising this effect and practicing within your training

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Operation Juggernaut

Operation Juggernaut

Join EOF in the Royal Marines Association 75th Anniversary Fundraising Mission

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Bergen Tempo Training

Bergen Tempo Training

Nick talks through how, when and why you would add Weighted fitness training to your running cycle, how capable you need to be to cope with this addition to your training and when to implement it.

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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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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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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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What safety kit do I need?

In this audiobook Nick talks about safety kit, plus we give you our hills equipment list.

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Weighted runs

Weighted Runs

In this audiobook Nick looks at progressive weighted runs

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My Journey with EOF

Wills Journey

Check out Wills story of how he worked with EOF founder Nick Grainge, to conquer Woodhouse Trident.

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Introducing weighted fitness

Introducing weighted fitness to a program

In this audiobook Nick looks at how to introduce weighted fitness to your programme.

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Bergens, daysacks and boots

In this audiobook Nick looks at Bergens, daysacks and boots.

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Game changer

Game Changer

Including or adding weighted fitness into a training program. No matter if you’re a triathlete or cyclist, these sessions can play a huge part in making you a stronger athlete.

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Fan Dance Tempo 2 session

Fan Dance tempo 2 training

How Elite Outdoor Fitness break their tempo sessions down and the effects these sessions have on your capacity with weight. These sessions are very specific and demanding and so Nick suggests when is appropriate to add to a training program.

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Fan Dance tempo introduction

Fan Dance tempo training

When do you introduce Tempo 2 training sessions into your program? This video looks at the basics of training and how to prepare yourself for these very arduous but productive sessions.

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Bergen packing for speed

Bergen packing for speed

In this video Nick runs through the best way to pack your Bergen for speed and safety.

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Are you training for an event that requires you to carry weight?

Let's learn some more about your event...

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?

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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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