Sports & Fitness: Performance Training, Rules & Recovery

Elite athletic performance and general fitness are sustained through structured hypertrophy strategies, sport-specific conditioning, and rigorous adherence to injury prevention protocols.

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Machines in the Gym That Increase Running Speed

The most reliable way for you to increase your running speed -- be it all-out sprint speed or speed sustained over a middle- or long-distance race -- is to practice running, be it endurance work or pure speed work, as often as your body allows.

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Advantages & Disadvantages of Running as Exercise

Running is an enormously popular form of exercise. According to Running USA, In 2012, close to 30 million Americans went running at least 50 times. To the casual observer, the reasons for its widespread appeal seem as evident as the factors that would lead lots of would-be exercisers to quickly reject it.

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Techniques for Running 800 Meters

The 800-meter run -- about 4.6 meters shy of a half-mile -- is one of track and field's middle-distance events. It requires a unique blend of pure speed and endurance.

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