I hope this is almost the last post on the subject, because I seem to have been getting aerobic running wrong for quite a long time. And I think what’s got in the way is ego — these are v slow runs, circa 7:30/8 min / km — and the fact that running quite slowly […]
Football fans judge forwards with their eyes, and the Bramall Lane terraces can be ruthless. Right now, the fan view around Tom Cannon is harsh, while Tyrese Campbell enjoys far more leniency as a fan favorite. Strip away confirmation bias, however, and we find Cannon isn’t nearly as bad as people think, but outside of […]
Sheffield United season so far: A quick brain dump. The wheels came off early for Selles, if they were ever even on. The gap between chances created (xG) and allowed (xGA) had widened dramatically by a month into the season. Wilder’s return saw that gap keep getting wider, but then the international break really helped, […]
How to discover your aerobic threshold Alan Partridge famously warned, “Stop getting Bond wrong!” I haven’t done that, but I have been getting zone 2 wrong. That’s because I didn’t know where it was. Last week I posted this as a brain dump of things I’d been thinking and talking about recently. It’s based around […]
What are zone 2, zone 4 etc? Training zones correspond to a percentage of your maximum heart rate (and/ or power in cycling but that’s another subject). At different levels of exercise intensity your body uses different energy sources and different muscle fibres and can continue for varying lengths of time before failure, also depending […]
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