Fueling During Exercise In my last blog post, I wrote about “bonking” (“hitting the wall” or “blowing up”) during endurance exercise and how it’s caused by low carbohydrate (glycogen) levels as the body uses up stored carbohydrates during exercise without adequate...
What Is an Exercise-Associated Muscle Cramp (EAMC)? EAMC’s can be defined as “painful, involuntary contractions of skeletal muscle that occur during or immediately after exercise and are common in endurance athletes.”1 Possible triggers for cramps include: history of...
“The body conforms and adapts to the intensities and directions it is habitually subjected to.”— Wolfe’s Law In triathlon, training intensity – or how hard the effort is – is typically described by terms such as aerobic, sub-threshold, lactate threshold, VO2 and...
David Glover, MSE, MS, CSCS responds to a triathlon client’s question about a higher heart rate than expected observed during a field test on a treadmill to set set training zones. David also addresses the question of why it’s important to do field tests for both bike...
What Does Your VO2 Max Number Tell You? Triathlete Jason Devaney visited Krista Schultz, MEd, CSCS to have his VO2 max tested. He learned he has a VO2 max of 55.3 ml/kg/min, which is well above his age predicted value of 44. So what does that number tell him? As...
