How Training in the Heat Wrecks Your Sleep and Recovery
Hot-weather training does not just make the run harder. It follows you home, and the thermal load, fluid deficit and mineral losses you bring to bed take deep sleep first, which is the stage where growth hormone fires and muscle repair runs. Here is what the research shows, and how to protect recovery through a heat block.
Research Recap: Women’s Endurance Edge, Brain-Primed Warmups, and Why Carbs Fail in Heat
Women Outlast Men in Long Runs. The Gap Is Bigger Than You Think. If you’ve ever watched a woman negative-split a marathon while the men around her blow up at mile 20, this study puts numbers behind what you already suspected. Researchers matched 11 highly trained female runners against 11 males with equivalent race performances […]