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8 Of The Best Pre-Workout Supplements
If you often find yourself feeling lethargic or low on energy before a session, pre-workout supplements can offer a much-needed boost.By helping you feel at your best, they can improve performance which leads to greater improvements. But with no shortage...
How To Use Heart Rate Variability To Measure Overtraining?
As athletes, we walk a fine line between training hard to make fitness gains and pushing our bodies to breaking point. If you’re training at a high level, it’s important to have objective measures in place to tell you if...
5 Of The Best Electrolyte Hydration Powders & Tablets
Good hydration is critical to peak performance and recovery, so having the right electrolyte supplements in place is important to many athletes.There’s a huge amount of products out there to choose from which can make finding the right option a...
Daily Cold Water Swimming Could Guard Against Dementia, Research Suggests
New research suggests that swimming in cold water may protect the brain against dementia, new research has found. Scientists assessed the blood samples of a group of people who swim daily throughout the winter in the unheated swimming pool at...
5 Of The Best Sleep Tracking Apps
Getting good quality and plentiful sleep is one of the most important parts of leading a healthy lifestyle and cementing fitness gains. There’s no shortage of apps you can use to get detailed statistics and insight into your own sleep....
Tommy Hughes: Alcoholic To Over-60 Half Marathon World Record Holder
Looking at former Olympian Tommy Hughes’ regular diet of 120 miles a week in the build-up to breaking the over-60 half-marathon world record, you wouldn’t think he used to go on drinking binges that lasted for weeks. The Irishman’s appetite...
How To Prevent Hand & Wrist Injuries In The Gym
Hand and wrist injuries are extremely common when you get into weightlifting. Fortunately, there are a number of steps you can take to help cut such problems out at the source.Here, Built for Athletes takes a look at some proven...
How Does Kinesiology Tape Work & What Is It?
You’ll often see athletes wearing bright-coloured tape on their skin. If you’re not aware, it’s called kinesiology tape - although it’s sometimes referred to as kinesio tape or KT tape.The reasons it’s used, though, can be a mystery if it’s...
Does CBD Help You Get Better Sleep?
Getting enough good quality sleep is a crucial part of an athlete’s lifestyle. Without it, the body can’t recover or adapt off the back of the hard training we put in.That’s why finding ways to ensure we can get a...