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How To Recover Quickly From Illness & Get Back Training
Experts predict it to be a bumper year for colds and viral infections as we head into the winter. We are suddenly being exposed to many contagious illnesses that our immune systems haven’t needed to deal with over the last...
Four Ways Stress Can Impact Your Athletic Performance
Stress can come from all sorts of sources, whether it be work, family life, social commitments, economic uncertainty or hundreds of other stressors we’re regularly exposed to. Unfortunately, when you're pursuing big fitness goals, this build-up of stress can have...
5 Natural Sleep Aids To Improve Your Recovery
5 Natural Sleep Aids To Improve Your Recovery Sleep is something we’re all looking to improve and enhance. Not only is it one of the most important factors in improving physical performance because of the way it helps your body...
Oleksandr Usyk's Old School & Brutal Training Techniques
Oleksandr Usyk’s famous victory over Anthony Joshua in Saudi Arabia has underlined his boxing skill, fitness and mental resilience.It was a spectacular performance that had many commentators and fans touting the Ukrainian heavyweight as the pound-for-pound number one. Despite his...
How To Use Heart Rate Variability To Improve Your Recovery
Optimising recovery is a key part of moving forward as an athlete. One of the big differences between elite, full-time athletes and normal mortals is the way the former look after their bodies in between sessions.With the advancements in technology...
5 Simple Tips Athletes Can Use To Avoid DOMS
All athletes are very familiar with delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) and how much of a difficulty it can cause you in doing simple things.Unfortunately, it comes with the territory of pushing your body. Any kind of progressive overload will...
How To Return To Training Effectively After Covid
With over 22 million Covid cases recorded in the UK, a lot of athletes have had to deal with the frustration of drawing back from training due to the virus. It’s not advised that you train through it and when...
Do Compressions Clothes Help You Recover Quicker?
Compressions clothes are used by a lot of athletes either during exercise or to assist with recovery afterwards.There are a lot of claims made about the benefits, including that they can reduce your risk of injury, which leads people to...
What Can Athletes Learn From A VO2 Max Test?
Lab testing is a nice way of seeing where you are at with your training, and VO2 max is one of the most common measurements.It’s a convenient number that you can compare against other people to see how big your...