Training
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Put a little weight on
We’re often asked about the value of weighted training vests for Sport Walking and our response is always the same – it can have benefits but, equally, it all depends what you’re Sport Walking for and what other components you’re building into your routine. Weighted vests, ‘tactical vests’, call them what you like, they’re now…
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Cross Training for Sport Walkers
We often talk about the benefits of Sport Walking and how it can give you all you need to get fit and have adventures. So you might think that we only want you to go Sport Walking and to do nothing else. Well you’d be wrong! Although Sport Walking on its own can take care…
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Take the test!
How fast can you actually walk? Chances are, unless you’ve taken our My First Ultra or Get Sport Walking courses and have followed them to the letter, you may not know. Well, if that’s you, we want to change that because knowledge is power – power to progress, power to improve. So what exactly are…
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Thrive in winter!
The new year is always a bit of a mixed blessing. It feels like it’s full of new opportunities but after the initial fizz of excitement, the reality sets in – opportunities will come in time but the days are still dark and short, the weather is most likely cold and dreary and Springtime is…
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Autumn, a time to get busy!
It’s interesting how we tend to view different phases of the year. So often, we thing of summer as the time of ultimate productivity – it’s generally when we take on our challenges, the long days mean we have more time to get more done and, perhaps, kids being on holiday forces a change of…
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Walk don’t run
In the last in this series about mixing running with Sport Walking, the only thing that remains is to lay out the positive role walking can play for runners. The concept of ‘run walking’ has been around for ages, largely thanks to the work of Jeff Galloway and its benefits (for runners) in training is…
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Run, don’t walk
Continuing on from the last blog about Speed Hiking and in the second post in a series of three, let’s look specifically at the benefits of running in training if you’re a Sport Walker. Now before you get too worried that if you introduce running into your Sport Walking training, you might become infected by…
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What is Speed Hiking?
If you have an interest in American super long distance trail routes, trails like the Appalachian Trail or the Pacific Crest Trail, then you’ve probably come across the term ‘Speed Hiking’, although it’s not something most people who take on these routes do when they’re ’through hiking’. It’s actually a term that’s become synonymous with…
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Look Back to Move Forward
It’s not uncommon, when you’re training for an ultramarathon or some other kind of Sport Walking challenge, to get stuck in a bit of a rut. It can feel like you’re just doing the same thing over and over or maybe you don’t think you’re making the same kind of progress as you did before.…
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VIDEO – Challenge yourself
You’ve nailed walking faster, you’ve got all your gear sorted, now you just need to inject some actual ‘sport’ into your Sport Walking! In this final instalment of the three principles of Sport Walking series, Roger talks about all the ways you can build challenge into your day to day walking – to give you…