The Triathlete’s Training Bible will make triathletes smarter, stronger and faster Review by Ross Tucker Joe Friel’s Triathlete’s Training Bible, now in its 3rd edition, has become an indispensable tool for triathletes of all levels wishing to improve their performance using evidence-based methods and principles. Of most credit to the book is that it is […]
Month: October 2009
Cold Water Immersion Recovery
Cold Water Immersion is one of the latest trends in encouraging recovery. At the Olympics several swim teams set up immersion tanks on the warm-up pool deck for “recovery”. What are your thoughts? Do you have evidence that they help? Please do share your thoughts on Cold Water Immersion with us at the BJSM. […]
‘Bloodgate’: Professional Boundaries and Top Level Sport
(Via timesonline.co.uk) The doctor at the centre of the “Bloodgate” scandal at Harlequins has been suspended from practising medicine pending further investigations into her conduct. Wendy Chapman, a hospital consultant, has been forbidden by the General Medical Council (GMC) from working as a doctor amid allegations that she deliberately cut the lip of Tom Williams, the […]
E-letter: Prophylactic use of NSAIDs in endurance runners
Click here to read the original article. My concern with the prophylactic use of NSAIDs occurs in endurance athletes. My anecdotal experience is that endurance runners attempting distances categorised as ultra races (ie longer than a marathon) may regularly take NSAIDs during an event in a misguided attempt to delay muscle fatigue. I have even seen NSAIDs being referred […]