As a runner, you know your sport is hard on the legs. At the end of a long workout or a race, your thighs and calves feel beat-up. In fact, the sheer pain and weakness that results from absorbing three to four times your body weight on each foot, 40 or more times per minute, is often a bigger performance limiter than running out of energy...
Like most serious athletes, you’ve probably been told that lactic acid causes a burning sensation and fatigue in your legs when you’re riding hard. This is one of many myths about lactic acid that are popular among cyclists. The truth is that your body never produces lactic acid—it produces lactate, a close cousin of lactic acid...
If you’re like most triathletes, you are attracted by the sport’s unique challenge of attaining a high level of performance in three completely different disciplines. To meet this challenge, you must train frequently in each discipline. Training frequently in 3 sports simultaneously requires that you pack a lot of workouts into each week...
Swimming is considered an endurance sport, like cycling and running, but training requirements are very different than other endurance activities. As a swimmer, you may spend as much time training as runners and cyclists do, but the average intensity level of your training is much higher...