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You are used to doing heart rate sets where you check your heart rate every so often and maintain some minimum or maximum heart rate or stay within a specific range. Typically this is done in an effort to make sure you are working at the intensity required to effect a specific training adaptation.
Training
Most Masters already know some form of weight training will make them faster, as well as allowing them to lead a better lifestyle as they get older. Most of us have jobs and families. Finding time...
Training
For the born sprinters in the crowd, Coach Dan Thompson offers training tips that will help you enhance your sprint workouts and meet performance.
Training
No doubt you are doing lots of hard work each day you come to the pool for workout. You do endurance work to improve your distance events. You do sprint work to improve your short events. You do...
Training
Most of you know that my new wife Peggy and I recently returned from the Grand Canyon.
It has been calculated that if Man had dug the Grand Canyon on his own, using conventional excavation equipment...
Training
You train for months in a 25 yard pool and then enter the summer long course championships. Upon arriving at the meet, you take a glance at the pool. It looks sooooo looooong! You stand at the end of...
Training
Ever experience this?
You are closing in on a swimmer and about to overtake him/her. Then you start to swim alongside the other person in an attempt to pass and, lo and behold, the inconsiderate boob...
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