Sentences with phrase «distance runners»

Fairfax, CA About Blog Serving a loyal market of long - distance runners since 1981, UltraRunning magazine has long been established as the voice of the sport.

Translation: It fits like a glove while it breathes and sheds moisture with the best, making it the perfect minimalist pair for long - distance runners whose sweat pours out over time.

It's the perfect size and shape to store a smartphone — making these leggings truly useful for long distance runners who want to listen to music and keep their hands free.

Indeed, some researchers have observed that muscle fascicle length tends to be longer in elite 100m sprinters than long - distance runners as well as in less - well - trained sprinters (Kumagi et al. 1985; Abe et al. 2001; Lee & Plaza, 2009), although this has not always been reported (Methenitis et al. 2015) and when it comes to certain sports, the relationship may of course be muscle - specific, depending on the contribution of the muscle being investigated to performance in that sport.

Long - distance runners would tend to favor foods high on the glycemic index, while people with pre - or full - blown diabetes would need to concentrate on low GI foods.

Even distance runners typically come up short in total energy expenditure compared to moderate exercisers who then are active all day because they've boosted their energy.

This explains why, for example, long distance runners are not muscular.

This adaptation occurs over a period of time, and is one of the reasons why long distance runners will train in a glycogen depleted state and then carbohydrate load before a race.

Støren O, Helgerud J, Støa EM, Hoff J. «Maximal strength training improves running economy in distance runners.»

Long - distance runners, their bodies having adapted to this requirement, exhibit the exact opposite, the product of extreme endurance training — sinewy, light and economic.

Even though distance runners need to train speed at most distances to be competent in any one distance, anaerobic training for marathoners tends to be skewed towards mile repeats, and anaerobic training for 5 - K or 10 - K runners tends to be skewed towards 400m repeats, for example.

Echinacea purpurea supplementation does not enhance VO2max in distance runners.

I love it and recommend it to all of my fellow distance runners!)

One study on long - distance runners found that creatine supplementation reduced markers of muscle damage and inflammation after an 18 - mile race.

And in fact, carbohydrate is probably not the best fuel source for long - distance runners, since they need to keep eating carbohydrate as they go (there being a limited amount that the body can store) which causes gastric distress and potentially diarrhoea and vomiting.

When you roll over the diagram of the human at the top of the page, you get a very simple view of which muscles are more prevalent in sprinters and in long - distance runners.

For instance, Olympic sprinters may have as much as 80 % fast - twitch fibers and long - distance runners may have as much as 80 % slow - twitch.

There is also, again, the fact that improved muscle coordination improves torso stability and movement efficiency, and a trained upper body will not be subject to the same «flop» that one will often see in fatigued distance runners.

Or to simplify it even further, the obvious observation that long distance runners have far less muscle mass than short - distance sprinters in the Olympics.

Permanently damaged feet (my chiropractor says long distance runners have some of the worst feet he's ever seen)

Sports: To date, ketogenic high fat - low carbohydrate diets have been found to be most beneficial for endurance athletes such as long distance runners [33, 34].

But someone told me to not do sprints or the strength stuff and it might make my legs more bulky and I should go back to doing long endurance runs because you see most long distance runners with lean legs and sprinters with more muscle / bulky!

Strength training improves fat loss not only by improving your resting metabolic rate (because slight increases in muscle mass will burn more calories than if that muscle were fat) and through a mechanism called excess post-exercise oxygen consumption (EPOC), which basically means that your body will continue to burn calories after your workout Though many distance runners may not be terribly concerned about fat loss specifically, they will nevertheless be heartened to know that any slight muscle mass gains from weight training will be balanced by a loss of fat, and fat certainly does not make ANYBODY faster.

Now I don't want to upset any of you distance runners out there.

Last year I blogged about some cool findings from the University of Cape Town on a gene called COL5A1, a certain variant of which seems to predispose people to be (a) inflexible and (b) efficient distance runners.

Training intensity of elite male distance runners.

Athletes are especially fond of this, and it's probably the best steroid stack for distance runners, soccer players, swimmers and anyone who needs to push hard for hours at a time.

Run «Tall» Long distance runners often repeat mantras to stay motivated.

Ever take a look at long time long distance runners, tri-athletes, swimmers and similar?

The idea is to boost your testosterone naturally (long distance runners, by the way, have been shown to generally have lower T levels than sedentary individuals).

A study published in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise found that caffeine increased oxidative stress and anti-inflammatory response in long distance runners after completing a 15k run.

I believe you'll find that most ELITE distance runners tend to follow the idea that they need to train all muscle fibers.

I learned what nutrients long - distance runners need to run well and to recover properly and then I found out what foods I can find them in.

Road distance runners tend to be weak in the hamstrings but strong in the glutes and quads, though the fastest don't fit this so neatly.

I agree that most ELITE distance runners are likely training all their muscle fibers (or as many as can realistically be trained).

I've read the blogs of low carb distance runners.

But athletes not exclusively focused on the extremes can benefit from both strength and endurance training (athletes such as sprinters, middle distance runners, decathletes, football players, etc).

For example, sprinters usually have predominately Type IIB fast glycolytic muscle fibers, while distance runners have a larger proportion of slow - twitch, high oxidative muscle fibers.

It is great for long distance runners, bikers, and anyone wanting to increase their lean muscle mass.

This is for all of you long distance runners or cyclists.

Ever notice that a lot of long distance runners or those girls at the gym that slave away on the treadmill typically have really well developed hamstrings, but no butt?

Endurance runners likely need more protein each day than short - distance runners.

In 1986, a study was done where long distance runners were asked to run for 90 minutes once after having eaten and once again after 23 hours of fasting.

For comparison, sports like ice hockey, football, soccer, and rugby have injury rates ranging from 6 to 260 per 1,000 hours, and long - distance runners can expect about 10 injuries per 1,000 hours of pavement pounding.

And explosive, power - based moves like snatches are great for sprinters and short - distance runners.

Basically they couldnt found any benefit of branched - chain amino acid supplements for distance runners.

Running economy is negatively related to sit - and - reach test performance in international - standard distance runners.

Sit - and - reach flexibility and running economy of men and women collegiate distance runners.

Follow - up studies show they also work on «reducing muscle pain» in long - distance runners, speeding recovery after a marathon.

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