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Speed and Strength Training with Resistance Bands

DYNA-BAND 6ft Green Medium Resistance Band
Resistance bands are great.
They can easily be rolled up to take along for travel.
You can tie 2 together and make a large loop.
You can shorten the length for extra resistance.
Resistance bands are available in a range of colours that relate to their stiffness or resistance. Colour-coding varies between the brands […]

Ladies, Increase Your Speed And Endurance While Sculpting Great Toned Muscles

This article is guest blogged by Taylor Ryan from The Art Of Weight Lifting.
Ladies, Increase Your Speed And Endurance While Sculpting Great Toned Muscles!
It doesn’t matter if your goal is to increase your marathon time or to just be able to walk up the stairs without getting winded… in the long run it’s the […]

Wrist Straps and Weight Belts - Good or Bad?

During my weight training days at McGill, I remember a lot of lifters were using wrist straps and weight belts, including myself.
The weight belt was good for the vanity – it tightened your waist and tucked in your beer belly, plus it inflated your chest, hence the inverted triangle appearance.  The 46” chest with 30” […]

Interval Circuit Training Examples and Routines

The limitation of the 400 meters is not lactic acid, or lactate for that matter. Rather, it’s acidosis, or the increase of positive H+ hydrogen items that limits the muscles.

How can you tolerate this? How can you build up a resistance to this, other than typical extensive tempo workouts or special endurance workouts?

Let’s […]

Mens Athletic Compression Shorts and Benefits

In our 2009 BC Strength Fitness and Conditioning Conference, Dr. Donald Chu gave a wonderful presentation of Recovery and Regeneration.

He gave an overview of the 3 main restorative means for Recovery and Regeneration.

Physical (Passive and Active)
Medical (Pharmacological, Psychiatric, Surgical, Nutritional)
Psychological

One of the items he briefly mentioned was the rising use of compression shorts.

Our Bobsledders have […]

Yoga, Resistance Stretching, and now Pilates Exercise?

I had a funny feeling Pilates was going to be popular with Track and Field athletes one day, along with the Alexander technique. In the personal fitness industry, we’ve seen the fad go from step classes, spinning bicycles, Tae-Bo, Bikram Yoga, kettlebells, swiss balls, bosu balls and other “core” fads.

I personally like good old-fashion […]

Dan Pfaff - Alternate Methods for Developing Strength, Power and Mobility

The Canadian Athletics Coaching Center has a wealth of free coaching articles, including a great article I referenced on Valeri Borzov’s mental preparation before a race.

If you are interested in more advanced topics such as developing Strength, Power and Mobility, then check out this article from Dan Pfaff.

You can download the entire PDF here, or […]

Personal Goal Setting & Planning Success

Just before the New Year’s, I wrote a post on The Power of Writing Down Your Goals.
Tom Venuto had another great example that didn’t include Harvard Graduates. In his Blog, he wrote:
(Guess Who)
“I will come to America, which is the country for me. Once here, I will become the greatest bodybuilder in […]

Other 30 Minute Circuit Training Workouts

If I was a comic book hero, I would call myself Lactic Man. To train for the 400m, one has to tolerate huge amounts of lactic acid.
Earlier, I posted a 30 minute workout. 31.5 minutes to be exact. Here is the other workout.
It comprises of 9 continuous exercises (3 non-stop sets of […]

Valeri Borzov - An Hour Before the Start

Thanks to my good friends at the Canadian Athletics Coaching Center, they reprinted in an easy to read 2 page PDF of Valery Borzov’s account of his own mental preparation prior to a race.
The Canadian Athletics Coaching Center also has a wealth of free coaching articles, so feel free to browse their site.
If you read […]

BC Strength, Fitness and Conditioning Conference - February 23

If you are a Personal Trainer, Strength and Conditioning Coach, Sports Coach, or Rehabilitation Specialist, this one day conference is an exceptional professional development training seminar.
A panel of World Class presenters offers their experience relating to the area of “Mobility and Movement”. All aspects of physical conditioning and preparation are addressed in this conference.
If […]

Building a Better Runner by RunningDVDs .com

Introduction
I’ve reviewed my fair share of training videos in the past and was very happy to see this DVD didn’t focus on selling a gadget, or belong to the “answer to success is core stability” camp. Visions of Paul Chek come to mind.
I’m a big fan of going back to basics and keeping things […]

Speedlinking - Abs or Abdominal training workouts and exercises

Speedlinking is a term to define a collection or handful of good posts on a particular topic, very similar to a Blog Carnival.
Here is a collection of workouts, training tips, and technical papers from around the world that focuses on Abs or Abdominal training workouts and exercises.
From Speedendurance.com’s archives:

The Abdominal Training FAQ
AB Mania

From […]

The Abdominal Training FAQ

Here is a great reference on Abs that is no longer on the web.
The original source came from:
http://www.dstc.edu.au/TU/staff/timbomb/ab/
Once I find the real Tim Mansfield, who wrote this article, I will correct the URL.

The Abdominal Training FAQ

The Abdominal Training Frequently Asked Questions list (FAQ) is intended as an introduction to the basic principles of training […]

AB Mania

Here is a great article on Abs that is no longer on the web.
The original source came from:
http://www.miamivalleyfitness.com/Exercise_ab_mania.htm
Once I find the authour, I will give her or him full credit and correct the URL.

AB Mania
It seems that the abdominal area is a favorite target for exercise in the fitness and aerobics world. There are probably […]

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