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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...
“You Have To Remove Emotion From Your Programme” - Sara Sigmundsdottir On Learning To Coach Herself
Sara Sigmundsdottir was so disappointed at not being able to complete the full CrossFit Games last year when she failed to make the cut into the final 10 that she decided to immediately compete in a half-ironman afterwards. It was...
Olympic divers seek to push their bodies to the absolute limit and have excruciatingly demanding training schedules to do so. Some of the best Chinese athletes in the sport train six and a half days a week in the country’s...
5 Benefits Of Taking A Training Break
As athletes, we can often be greedy in our pursuit of fitness. We constantly train hard and put in extra sessions to try to maximize our potential.But some of the best athletes in every sport take a complete break from...
Does CBD Lower Resting Heart Rate?
The cannabidiol CBD, which performs an opposing function to the element THC that is behind cannabis’ psychoactive effect, is growing in popularity across the globe. It is now used relatively widely to treat anxiety and other disorders, and is available...