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An Endurance Explosion
Unpacking the Explosive Growth of Endurance Sports
Between 2003 and 2009 the participant for half marathons grew by 80% to 35,000 total. In 2016 a huge number (250,000) applied for the London Marathon, only 39,000 of those would make it to the start line. This figure shows why the UK now has over 807,000 running events…
IRONMAN participation numbers doubled from 2008 to 2018 where a reported 64,000 men and 15,000 female athletes heard the start gun. What's interesting is in both genders for IRONMAN racing the ratio of male to female has remained the same, but for running events such as the London marathon, 43% of total applicants in 2017 were female.
The above makes for a pretty good argument that in the past 20 years, there has been an endurance explosion!
So why? Well, it isn’t because we are getting fitter! Although between 2003 and 2009 HM participation grew by 80%, finishing rates dropped… Plus we all know the obesity story… This leads me to think further into it, made me think back to conversations I have had with first-time runners or non-runners‘ doing it for fun’. Then that word jumped out to me, fun!
Running races, somewhere along the way became fun… No longer only about being your local club champion or hitting a certain time, it became about enjoyment and the race organisers and sports brands knew it! Celebrities suddenly started endorsing races or taking on races as ‘challenges’ to raise money for charity, they would grimace through their pain to show everyone how much they loved it. Corporate entries became hugely popular! Office chat stopped being about how expensive Sky TV was and became about how much they were shitting themselves for the weekend… This saw the rise of 'celebrity trainers’ who then got exposed to wider audiences and showed that because Davina McCall can do it, you can too!
While this was going on, there was another crowd, the ‘OG’s’, the ‘yeh I remember my first marathon in 1970…’, ‘No I don't use a GPS watch, that's not for pure runners like me’, ‘I won’t use nip tape, I like them to bleed through my 19yr old cotton vest’. All this would be said with a taste of resentment, now anyone could do what used to be their special trick, they were no longer seen as being ‘mad’. So what did they do? They stepped up their ‘mad game’.
Ultra marathons blew up, 50k races every other weekend. 50k not hard enough? No problem, there is the toughest foot race on earth in the Sahara desert called Marathon De Sables. It began in 1984, a similar time to the first IRONMAN but only 1 and 4 participants (respectively) were on the start lines, in 2019 MDS hit its peak participation of just over 1000 athletes with many more being denied and as said earlier more than 80,000 people participated in IRONMAN last year alone.
All this raised the participation bar and I for one love that it did. It helped uncover new talent, it has helped people to realise they can achieve way more than they ever thought, it has raised Billions and Billions for charities all around the world and it has ultimately given me and many other a career and passion in life. It may have been an explosion but the ripple effects are very much still going strong!
If you have found endurance sport has impacted your life, remember it isn’t the same for everyone but it is never too late. Encourage people to join you, go looking for undiscovered talent and help your friends, family and colleagues to find fun in endurance, however that may look. The money pumped into endurance sport set off the explosion but the makeup of it is you the participants.
To listen in to an interview we did with Olympian Sir Brendan Foster on how much running has grown, click here > https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/endurance54561/episodes/2020-06-23T23_19_21-07_00
To listen to an interview with the impact endurance can have on your life and the impact you can have on others with Andrea Talmacsi click here > https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/endurance54561/episodes/2020-02-26T04_53_58-08_00
To reach out to me, send me a mail on tw@innerfight.com
ENGINE
Revisiting Mikkos with some over and under-threshold intervals.
GYMNASTICS
This week, we will spend some time on ring dips! Get read for isometric holds, eccentrics, strict work, and kipping progressions. We’ll prioritise lockout strength, crucial for pressing movements like handstand push-ups, strict presses, and jerks.
HYROX
We will take on a full HYROX for the race simulation. It can be done individually or in pairs.
MOBILITY
This weekend, the mobility focus is improving the range of motion in joints and muscles. Upper body mobility focuses on the shoulders, wrists, and T spine, helping with movements like reaching and rotating. Lower body mobility targets the hips, knees, and ankles, improving flexibility for activities like squats and lunges. Come join us to keep those bodies healthy.
PURE STRENGTH
In Pure Strength this week, we are hitting some cluster sets on the front squat on Monday, followed by some single leg work coupled with the bent-over rows. We are clustering the Bench Press and ring rows to build some push and pull strength, followed by some dumbbell Romanian Deadlifts on Wednesday.
WEIGHTLIFTING
For weightlifting this week, we will focus on the squat snatch. With a fun complex snatch pull, Hang squat snatch and OHS. Great technique session!
Monday Ride
A ride dedicated to group riding skills and some fitness. Coach Rob Foster leads this ride, if you'd like to join email rf@innerfight.com
Start time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Location: The Loop Cafe, Bike DXB
Track Tuesday
Our weekly on track speed session! For any level of runner looking to build their run speed, threshold and Vo2max fitness and run with the best running community in Dubai.
Time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Location: Dubai Sports City Sports Park
Friday - Coffee Run
Our weekly tempo run. This run is currently gearing run fitness towards the incoming half marathons. Sessions are built on an RPE scale and accessible to all levels of runner.
Brief time: 05:54 am
Start time: 05:59 am
Start Location: Common Grounds
Monday
Time: 5:59pm
Location: InnerFight
Session: Tempo
PM Session only: This evening we will be building in pace as the blocks progress. Each block of work is 6 mins long and has a 2 mins recovery. Start at a 5/10 effort and gradually build to a 8/10 RPE.
Tuesday
Time: 5:59am
Location: Dubai Sports City Sports Park
Session: Track Tuesday
This is your chance to run fast with the wider IFE community and coaches. Today we will be running 200m repeats at 1km pace. This is a fast session, focus on keeping good running form throughout.
Wednesday
Time: 5:59am & 4:59pm
Location: InnerFight
Session: LRC Intervals
If you didn't run track, today we have some speed work for you in the morning. The session at 5:59am will be 1km into 400m repeats, back to 1km.
In the evening we will run easy at 4:59pm this week with IFE ahead of Iftar in Gym 2 from 6pm.
Friday
Hills Start Time: 5:29am
Tempo
Brief time: 5:54am
Start Time: 5:59am
Location: Common Grounds
Session: The Coffee Run
This week we will have bridge repeats for those who want elevation, and tempo for those who want to push the pace on the flat surface. The choice is yours. (If you are running Two Oceans, we recommend the hills option).
Saturday
Location: KhorFakkan
Session: LRC Training Camp
We will be back in Hatta this week for our Sunday long run. We will be in Khorfakkan this wekeend for our LRC Training Camp. All details or run distances, start times, and locations will be share in TrainnigPeaks and WhatsApp.
Please talk to Steph for further details.
SH@Innerfight.com
Sunday
Location: KhorFakkan
Session: LRC Training Camp
We will be back in Hatta this week for our Sunday long run. We will be in Khorfakkan this wekeend for our LRC Training Camp. We will be in Khorfakkan this wekeend for our LRC Training Camp. All details or run distances, start times, and locations will be share in TrainnigPeaks and WhatsApp.
Please talk to Steph for further details.
SH@Innerfight.com
Here we go, people! The start of a new block! The next 12 weeks are going to be loaded with strength, some nasty but epic short workouts, lots of strongman and, every now and again, some longer conditioning pieces! Fridays will be something special. Scroll down, and you know what we are talking about! Time to get stronger and fitter!
Monday:
We are kicking the week off with some knee flexion strength work, heavy back squats, step-ups, and cyclist goblet squats. Then we have a simple sprint workout of row wall balls row. How much do you want to hurt on the final row?
Strength:
A) Every 2mins x 5 - 5 Back Squats Tempo 30X1
B) Every 2:30mins x 4 - 8 Barbell Box Step-Ups
C) Every 90secs x 3 - 8 Reps 1 1/4 Cyclist Goblet Squats
Conditioning:
For Time:
500/400m row
50 Wall Balls
500/400m row
Tuesday:
Tuesday, we have an Earthquake bar bench press followed by a triset of dumbbell presses, isometric chin over ball holds and push-ups. You will need a partner for the workout as you get stuck into some kettlebell carries and assault bike efforts.
Strength:
A) Every 2mins x 5 - 8 Earthquake Bar Bench Press Tempo 20X1
B) Every 75secs Alt x 12 - 1) 10-12 Seated DB Press 2) 10-20 Second Chin Over Bar Hold 3) 30sec Push Ups
Conditioning:
10 rounds for time In Pairs YGIG
15/12 cal bike
2 lengths carpark dual KB front rack carry.
Wednesday:
Wednesday is all about power from the hips. Box jumps, power cleans and a frog stance deadlifts to build the posterior chain. Then we have a short, hard effort with the sandbags and dumbbells.
Strength:
A) 5 Mins to establish a Max height box jump
B) EMOM x 8 - 3 hang power cleans
c) Every 2 mins x 5 - 5 frog stance Deadlift
Conditioning:
For Time:
30-20-10
Sandbag Over Shoulder
DB Push Press
Thursday:
Thursday's strength is focused on some upper-body pulling with a Pendlay Row, and then we have a longer EMOM conditioning workout.
Strength:
Pendlay Row
Every 2 mins x 4 - 10/10/8/8 Pendlay Row
Conditioning:
EMOM 24
Min 1 - Assault bike
Min 2 - 25 ab mat sit-ups
Min 3 - Ski erg
Min 4 - 15/12/9 burpee
Friday:
Friday, we are finishing the week with some pull-ups and Olympic lifting in the strength piece before we cap off an epic week of training with a screamer of a workout!
Strength:
Conditioning: Bring everything, including the kitchen sink! FUF are here and here to stay!
Between 2003 and 2009 the participant for half marathons grew by 80% to 35,000 total. In 2016 a huge number (250,000) applied for the London Marathon, only 39,000 of those would make it to the start line. This figure shows why the UK now has over 807,000 running events…
IRONMAN participation numbers doubled from 2008 to 2018 where a reported 64,000 men and 15,000 female athletes heard the start gun. What's interesting is in both genders for IRONMAN racing the ratio of male to female has remained the same, but for running events such as the London marathon, 43% of total applicants in 2017 were female.
The above makes for a pretty good argument that in the past 20 years, there has been an endurance explosion!
So why? Well, it isn’t because we are getting fitter! Although between 2003 and 2009 HM participation grew by 80%, finishing rates dropped… Plus we all know the obesity story… This leads me to think further into it, made me think back to conversations I have had with first-time runners or non-runners‘ doing it for fun’. Then that word jumped out to me, fun!
Running races, somewhere along the way became fun… No longer only about being your local club champion or hitting a certain time, it became about enjoyment and the race organisers and sports brands knew it! Celebrities suddenly started endorsing races or taking on races as ‘challenges’ to raise money for charity, they would grimace through their pain to show everyone how much they loved it. Corporate entries became hugely popular! Office chat stopped being about how expensive Sky TV was and became about how much they were shitting themselves for the weekend… This saw the rise of 'celebrity trainers’ who then got exposed to wider audiences and showed that because Davina McCall can do it, you can too!
While this was going on, there was another crowd, the ‘OG’s’, the ‘yeh I remember my first marathon in 1970…’, ‘No I don't use a GPS watch, that's not for pure runners like me’, ‘I won’t use nip tape, I like them to bleed through my 19yr old cotton vest’. All this would be said with a taste of resentment, now anyone could do what used to be their special trick, they were no longer seen as being ‘mad’. So what did they do? They stepped up their ‘mad game’.
Ultra marathons blew up, 50k races every other weekend. 50k not hard enough? No problem, there is the toughest foot race on earth in the Sahara desert called Marathon De Sables. It began in 1984, a similar time to the first IRONMAN but only 1 and 4 participants (respectively) were on the start lines, in 2019 MDS hit its peak participation of just over 1000 athletes with many more being denied and as said earlier more than 80,000 people participated in IRONMAN last year alone.
All this raised the participation bar and I for one love that it did. It helped uncover new talent, it has helped people to realise they can achieve way more than they ever thought, it has raised Billions and Billions for charities all around the world and it has ultimately given me and many other a career and passion in life. It may have been an explosion but the ripple effects are very much still going strong!
If you have found endurance sport has impacted your life, remember it isn’t the same for everyone but it is never too late. Encourage people to join you, go looking for undiscovered talent and help your friends, family and colleagues to find fun in endurance, however that may look. The money pumped into endurance sport set off the explosion but the makeup of it is you the participants.
To listen in to an interview we did with Olympian Sir Brendan Foster on how much running has grown, click here > https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/endurance54561/episodes/2020-06-23T23_19_21-07_00
To listen to an interview with the impact endurance can have on your life and the impact you can have on others with Andrea Talmacsi click here > https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/endurance54561/episodes/2020-02-26T04_53_58-08_00
To reach out to me, send me a mail on tw@innerfight.com
Monday Ride
A ride dedicated to group riding skills and some fitness. Coach Rob Foster leads this ride, if you'd like to join email rf@innerfight.com
Start time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Location: The Loop Cafe, Bike DXB
Track Tuesday
Our weekly on track speed session! For any level of runner looking to build their run speed, threshold and Vo2max fitness and run with the best running community in Dubai.
Time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Location: Dubai Sports City Sports Park
Friday - Coffee Run
Our weekly tempo run. This run is currently gearing run fitness towards the incoming half marathons. Sessions are built on an RPE scale and accessible to all levels of runner.
Brief time: 05:54 am
Start time: 05:59 am
Start Location: Common Grounds
Monday
Time: 5:59pm
Location: InnerFight
Session: Tempo
PM Session only: This evening we will be building in pace as the blocks progress. Each block of work is 6 mins long and has a 2 mins recovery. Start at a 5/10 effort and gradually build to a 8/10 RPE.
Tuesday
Time: 5:59am
Location: Dubai Sports City Sports Park
Session: Track Tuesday
This is your chance to run fast with the wider IFE community and coaches. Today we will be running 200m repeats at 1km pace. This is a fast session, focus on keeping good running form throughout.
Wednesday
Time: 5:59am & 4:59pm
Location: InnerFight
Session: LRC Intervals
If you didn't run track, today we have some speed work for you in the morning. The session at 5:59am will be 1km into 400m repeats, back to 1km.
In the evening we will run easy at 4:59pm this week with IFE ahead of Iftar in Gym 2 from 6pm.
Friday
Hills Start Time: 5:29am
Tempo
Brief time: 5:54am
Start Time: 5:59am
Location: Common Grounds
Session: The Coffee Run
This week we will have bridge repeats for those who want elevation, and tempo for those who want to push the pace on the flat surface. The choice is yours. (If you are running Two Oceans, we recommend the hills option).
Saturday
Location: KhorFakkan
Session: LRC Training Camp
We will be back in Hatta this week for our Sunday long run. We will be in Khorfakkan this wekeend for our LRC Training Camp. All details or run distances, start times, and locations will be share in TrainnigPeaks and WhatsApp.
Please talk to Steph for further details.
SH@Innerfight.com
Sunday
Location: KhorFakkan
Session: LRC Training Camp
We will be back in Hatta this week for our Sunday long run. We will be in Khorfakkan this wekeend for our LRC Training Camp. We will be in Khorfakkan this wekeend for our LRC Training Camp. All details or run distances, start times, and locations will be share in TrainnigPeaks and WhatsApp.
Please talk to Steph for further details.
SH@Innerfight.com
Here we go, people! The start of a new block! The next 12 weeks are going to be loaded with strength, some nasty but epic short workouts, lots of strongman and, every now and again, some longer conditioning pieces! Fridays will be something special. Scroll down, and you know what we are talking about! Time to get stronger and fitter!
Monday:
We are kicking the week off with some knee flexion strength work, heavy back squats, step-ups, and cyclist goblet squats. Then we have a simple sprint workout of row wall balls row. How much do you want to hurt on the final row?
Strength:
A) Every 2mins x 5 - 5 Back Squats Tempo 30X1
B) Every 2:30mins x 4 - 8 Barbell Box Step-Ups
C) Every 90secs x 3 - 8 Reps 1 1/4 Cyclist Goblet Squats
Conditioning:
For Time:
500/400m row
50 Wall Balls
500/400m row
Tuesday:
Tuesday, we have an Earthquake bar bench press followed by a triset of dumbbell presses, isometric chin over ball holds and push-ups. You will need a partner for the workout as you get stuck into some kettlebell carries and assault bike efforts.
Strength:
A) Every 2mins x 5 - 8 Earthquake Bar Bench Press Tempo 20X1
B) Every 75secs Alt x 12 - 1) 10-12 Seated DB Press 2) 10-20 Second Chin Over Bar Hold 3) 30sec Push Ups
Conditioning:
10 rounds for time In Pairs YGIG
15/12 cal bike
2 lengths carpark dual KB front rack carry.
Wednesday:
Wednesday is all about power from the hips. Box jumps, power cleans and a frog stance deadlifts to build the posterior chain. Then we have a short, hard effort with the sandbags and dumbbells.
Strength:
A) 5 Mins to establish a Max height box jump
B) EMOM x 8 - 3 hang power cleans
c) Every 2 mins x 5 - 5 frog stance Deadlift
Conditioning:
For Time:
30-20-10
Sandbag Over Shoulder
DB Push Press
Thursday:
Thursday's strength is focused on some upper-body pulling with a Pendlay Row, and then we have a longer EMOM conditioning workout.
Strength:
Pendlay Row
Every 2 mins x 4 - 10/10/8/8 Pendlay Row
Conditioning:
EMOM 24
Min 1 - Assault bike
Min 2 - 25 ab mat sit-ups
Min 3 - Ski erg
Min 4 - 15/12/9 burpee
Friday:
Friday, we are finishing the week with some pull-ups and Olympic lifting in the strength piece before we cap off an epic week of training with a screamer of a workout!
Strength:
Conditioning: Bring everything, including the kitchen sink! FUF are here and here to stay!
ENGINE
Revisiting Mikkos with some over and under-threshold intervals.
GYMNASTICS
This week, we will spend some time on ring dips! Get read for isometric holds, eccentrics, strict work, and kipping progressions. We’ll prioritise lockout strength, crucial for pressing movements like handstand push-ups, strict presses, and jerks.
HYROX
We will take on a full HYROX for the race simulation. It can be done individually or in pairs.
MOBILITY
This weekend, the mobility focus is improving the range of motion in joints and muscles. Upper body mobility focuses on the shoulders, wrists, and T spine, helping with movements like reaching and rotating. Lower body mobility targets the hips, knees, and ankles, improving flexibility for activities like squats and lunges. Come join us to keep those bodies healthy.
PURE STRENGTH
In Pure Strength this week, we are hitting some cluster sets on the front squat on Monday, followed by some single leg work coupled with the bent-over rows. We are clustering the Bench Press and ring rows to build some push and pull strength, followed by some dumbbell Romanian Deadlifts on Wednesday.
WEIGHTLIFTING
For weightlifting this week, we will focus on the squat snatch. With a fun complex snatch pull, Hang squat snatch and OHS. Great technique session!
Between 2003 and 2009 the participant for half marathons grew by 80% to 35,000 total. In 2016 a huge number (250,000) applied for the London Marathon, only 39,000 of those would make it to the start line. This figure shows why the UK now has over 807,000 running events…
IRONMAN participation numbers doubled from 2008 to 2018 where a reported 64,000 men and 15,000 female athletes heard the start gun. What's interesting is in both genders for IRONMAN racing the ratio of male to female has remained the same, but for running events such as the London marathon, 43% of total applicants in 2017 were female.
The above makes for a pretty good argument that in the past 20 years, there has been an endurance explosion!
So why? Well, it isn’t because we are getting fitter! Although between 2003 and 2009 HM participation grew by 80%, finishing rates dropped… Plus we all know the obesity story… This leads me to think further into it, made me think back to conversations I have had with first-time runners or non-runners‘ doing it for fun’. Then that word jumped out to me, fun!
Running races, somewhere along the way became fun… No longer only about being your local club champion or hitting a certain time, it became about enjoyment and the race organisers and sports brands knew it! Celebrities suddenly started endorsing races or taking on races as ‘challenges’ to raise money for charity, they would grimace through their pain to show everyone how much they loved it. Corporate entries became hugely popular! Office chat stopped being about how expensive Sky TV was and became about how much they were shitting themselves for the weekend… This saw the rise of 'celebrity trainers’ who then got exposed to wider audiences and showed that because Davina McCall can do it, you can too!
While this was going on, there was another crowd, the ‘OG’s’, the ‘yeh I remember my first marathon in 1970…’, ‘No I don't use a GPS watch, that's not for pure runners like me’, ‘I won’t use nip tape, I like them to bleed through my 19yr old cotton vest’. All this would be said with a taste of resentment, now anyone could do what used to be their special trick, they were no longer seen as being ‘mad’. So what did they do? They stepped up their ‘mad game’.
Ultra marathons blew up, 50k races every other weekend. 50k not hard enough? No problem, there is the toughest foot race on earth in the Sahara desert called Marathon De Sables. It began in 1984, a similar time to the first IRONMAN but only 1 and 4 participants (respectively) were on the start lines, in 2019 MDS hit its peak participation of just over 1000 athletes with many more being denied and as said earlier more than 80,000 people participated in IRONMAN last year alone.
All this raised the participation bar and I for one love that it did. It helped uncover new talent, it has helped people to realise they can achieve way more than they ever thought, it has raised Billions and Billions for charities all around the world and it has ultimately given me and many other a career and passion in life. It may have been an explosion but the ripple effects are very much still going strong!
If you have found endurance sport has impacted your life, remember it isn’t the same for everyone but it is never too late. Encourage people to join you, go looking for undiscovered talent and help your friends, family and colleagues to find fun in endurance, however that may look. The money pumped into endurance sport set off the explosion but the makeup of it is you the participants.
To listen in to an interview we did with Olympian Sir Brendan Foster on how much running has grown, click here > https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/endurance54561/episodes/2020-06-23T23_19_21-07_00
To listen to an interview with the impact endurance can have on your life and the impact you can have on others with Andrea Talmacsi click here > https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/endurance54561/episodes/2020-02-26T04_53_58-08_00
To reach out to me, send me a mail on tw@innerfight.com
Monday
Time: 5:59pm
Location: InnerFight
Session: Tempo
PM Session only: This evening we will be building in pace as the blocks progress. Each block of work is 6 mins long and has a 2 mins recovery. Start at a 5/10 effort and gradually build to a 8/10 RPE.
Tuesday
Time: 5:59am
Location: Dubai Sports City Sports Park
Session: Track Tuesday
This is your chance to run fast with the wider IFE community and coaches. Today we will be running 200m repeats at 1km pace. This is a fast session, focus on keeping good running form throughout.
Wednesday
Time: 5:59am & 4:59pm
Location: InnerFight
Session: LRC Intervals
If you didn't run track, today we have some speed work for you in the morning. The session at 5:59am will be 1km into 400m repeats, back to 1km.
In the evening we will run easy at 4:59pm this week with IFE ahead of Iftar in Gym 2 from 6pm.
Friday
Hills Start Time: 5:29am
Tempo
Brief time: 5:54am
Start Time: 5:59am
Location: Common Grounds
Session: The Coffee Run
This week we will have bridge repeats for those who want elevation, and tempo for those who want to push the pace on the flat surface. The choice is yours. (If you are running Two Oceans, we recommend the hills option).
Saturday
Location: KhorFakkan
Session: LRC Training Camp
We will be back in Hatta this week for our Sunday long run. We will be in Khorfakkan this wekeend for our LRC Training Camp. All details or run distances, start times, and locations will be share in TrainnigPeaks and WhatsApp.
Please talk to Steph for further details.
SH@Innerfight.com
Sunday
Location: KhorFakkan
Session: LRC Training Camp
We will be back in Hatta this week for our Sunday long run. We will be in Khorfakkan this wekeend for our LRC Training Camp. We will be in Khorfakkan this wekeend for our LRC Training Camp. All details or run distances, start times, and locations will be share in TrainnigPeaks and WhatsApp.
Please talk to Steph for further details.
SH@Innerfight.com
Here we go, people! The start of a new block! The next 12 weeks are going to be loaded with strength, some nasty but epic short workouts, lots of strongman and, every now and again, some longer conditioning pieces! Fridays will be something special. Scroll down, and you know what we are talking about! Time to get stronger and fitter!
Monday:
We are kicking the week off with some knee flexion strength work, heavy back squats, step-ups, and cyclist goblet squats. Then we have a simple sprint workout of row wall balls row. How much do you want to hurt on the final row?
Strength:
A) Every 2mins x 5 - 5 Back Squats Tempo 30X1
B) Every 2:30mins x 4 - 8 Barbell Box Step-Ups
C) Every 90secs x 3 - 8 Reps 1 1/4 Cyclist Goblet Squats
Conditioning:
For Time:
500/400m row
50 Wall Balls
500/400m row
Tuesday:
Tuesday, we have an Earthquake bar bench press followed by a triset of dumbbell presses, isometric chin over ball holds and push-ups. You will need a partner for the workout as you get stuck into some kettlebell carries and assault bike efforts.
Strength:
A) Every 2mins x 5 - 8 Earthquake Bar Bench Press Tempo 20X1
B) Every 75secs Alt x 12 - 1) 10-12 Seated DB Press 2) 10-20 Second Chin Over Bar Hold 3) 30sec Push Ups
Conditioning:
10 rounds for time In Pairs YGIG
15/12 cal bike
2 lengths carpark dual KB front rack carry.
Wednesday:
Wednesday is all about power from the hips. Box jumps, power cleans and a frog stance deadlifts to build the posterior chain. Then we have a short, hard effort with the sandbags and dumbbells.
Strength:
A) 5 Mins to establish a Max height box jump
B) EMOM x 8 - 3 hang power cleans
c) Every 2 mins x 5 - 5 frog stance Deadlift
Conditioning:
For Time:
30-20-10
Sandbag Over Shoulder
DB Push Press
Thursday:
Thursday's strength is focused on some upper-body pulling with a Pendlay Row, and then we have a longer EMOM conditioning workout.
Strength:
Pendlay Row
Every 2 mins x 4 - 10/10/8/8 Pendlay Row
Conditioning:
EMOM 24
Min 1 - Assault bike
Min 2 - 25 ab mat sit-ups
Min 3 - Ski erg
Min 4 - 15/12/9 burpee
Friday:
Friday, we are finishing the week with some pull-ups and Olympic lifting in the strength piece before we cap off an epic week of training with a screamer of a workout!
Strength:
Conditioning: Bring everything, including the kitchen sink! FUF are here and here to stay!
ENGINE
Revisiting Mikkos with some over and under-threshold intervals.
GYMNASTICS
This week, we will spend some time on ring dips! Get read for isometric holds, eccentrics, strict work, and kipping progressions. We’ll prioritise lockout strength, crucial for pressing movements like handstand push-ups, strict presses, and jerks.
HYROX
We will take on a full HYROX for the race simulation. It can be done individually or in pairs.
MOBILITY
This weekend, the mobility focus is improving the range of motion in joints and muscles. Upper body mobility focuses on the shoulders, wrists, and T spine, helping with movements like reaching and rotating. Lower body mobility targets the hips, knees, and ankles, improving flexibility for activities like squats and lunges. Come join us to keep those bodies healthy.
PURE STRENGTH
In Pure Strength this week, we are hitting some cluster sets on the front squat on Monday, followed by some single leg work coupled with the bent-over rows. We are clustering the Bench Press and ring rows to build some push and pull strength, followed by some dumbbell Romanian Deadlifts on Wednesday.
WEIGHTLIFTING
For weightlifting this week, we will focus on the squat snatch. With a fun complex snatch pull, Hang squat snatch and OHS. Great technique session!
Monday Ride
A ride dedicated to group riding skills and some fitness. Coach Rob Foster leads this ride, if you'd like to join email rf@innerfight.com
Start time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Location: The Loop Cafe, Bike DXB
Track Tuesday
Our weekly on track speed session! For any level of runner looking to build their run speed, threshold and Vo2max fitness and run with the best running community in Dubai.
Time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Location: Dubai Sports City Sports Park
Friday - Coffee Run
Our weekly tempo run. This run is currently gearing run fitness towards the incoming half marathons. Sessions are built on an RPE scale and accessible to all levels of runner.
Brief time: 05:54 am
Start time: 05:59 am
Start Location: Common Grounds
Between 2003 and 2009 the participant for half marathons grew by 80% to 35,000 total. In 2016 a huge number (250,000) applied for the London Marathon, only 39,000 of those would make it to the start line. This figure shows why the UK now has over 807,000 running events…
IRONMAN participation numbers doubled from 2008 to 2018 where a reported 64,000 men and 15,000 female athletes heard the start gun. What's interesting is in both genders for IRONMAN racing the ratio of male to female has remained the same, but for running events such as the London marathon, 43% of total applicants in 2017 were female.
The above makes for a pretty good argument that in the past 20 years, there has been an endurance explosion!
So why? Well, it isn’t because we are getting fitter! Although between 2003 and 2009 HM participation grew by 80%, finishing rates dropped… Plus we all know the obesity story… This leads me to think further into it, made me think back to conversations I have had with first-time runners or non-runners‘ doing it for fun’. Then that word jumped out to me, fun!
Running races, somewhere along the way became fun… No longer only about being your local club champion or hitting a certain time, it became about enjoyment and the race organisers and sports brands knew it! Celebrities suddenly started endorsing races or taking on races as ‘challenges’ to raise money for charity, they would grimace through their pain to show everyone how much they loved it. Corporate entries became hugely popular! Office chat stopped being about how expensive Sky TV was and became about how much they were shitting themselves for the weekend… This saw the rise of 'celebrity trainers’ who then got exposed to wider audiences and showed that because Davina McCall can do it, you can too!
While this was going on, there was another crowd, the ‘OG’s’, the ‘yeh I remember my first marathon in 1970…’, ‘No I don't use a GPS watch, that's not for pure runners like me’, ‘I won’t use nip tape, I like them to bleed through my 19yr old cotton vest’. All this would be said with a taste of resentment, now anyone could do what used to be their special trick, they were no longer seen as being ‘mad’. So what did they do? They stepped up their ‘mad game’.
Ultra marathons blew up, 50k races every other weekend. 50k not hard enough? No problem, there is the toughest foot race on earth in the Sahara desert called Marathon De Sables. It began in 1984, a similar time to the first IRONMAN but only 1 and 4 participants (respectively) were on the start lines, in 2019 MDS hit its peak participation of just over 1000 athletes with many more being denied and as said earlier more than 80,000 people participated in IRONMAN last year alone.
All this raised the participation bar and I for one love that it did. It helped uncover new talent, it has helped people to realise they can achieve way more than they ever thought, it has raised Billions and Billions for charities all around the world and it has ultimately given me and many other a career and passion in life. It may have been an explosion but the ripple effects are very much still going strong!
If you have found endurance sport has impacted your life, remember it isn’t the same for everyone but it is never too late. Encourage people to join you, go looking for undiscovered talent and help your friends, family and colleagues to find fun in endurance, however that may look. The money pumped into endurance sport set off the explosion but the makeup of it is you the participants.
To listen in to an interview we did with Olympian Sir Brendan Foster on how much running has grown, click here > https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/endurance54561/episodes/2020-06-23T23_19_21-07_00
To listen to an interview with the impact endurance can have on your life and the impact you can have on others with Andrea Talmacsi click here > https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/endurance54561/episodes/2020-02-26T04_53_58-08_00
To reach out to me, send me a mail on tw@innerfight.com
Between 2003 and 2009 the participant for half marathons grew by 80% to 35,000 total. In 2016 a huge number (250,000) applied for the London Marathon, only 39,000 of those would make it to the start line. This figure shows why the UK now has over 807,000 running events…
IRONMAN participation numbers doubled from 2008 to 2018 where a reported 64,000 men and 15,000 female athletes heard the start gun. What's interesting is in both genders for IRONMAN racing the ratio of male to female has remained the same, but for running events such as the London marathon, 43% of total applicants in 2017 were female.
The above makes for a pretty good argument that in the past 20 years, there has been an endurance explosion!
So why? Well, it isn’t because we are getting fitter! Although between 2003 and 2009 HM participation grew by 80%, finishing rates dropped… Plus we all know the obesity story… This leads me to think further into it, made me think back to conversations I have had with first-time runners or non-runners‘ doing it for fun’. Then that word jumped out to me, fun!
Running races, somewhere along the way became fun… No longer only about being your local club champion or hitting a certain time, it became about enjoyment and the race organisers and sports brands knew it! Celebrities suddenly started endorsing races or taking on races as ‘challenges’ to raise money for charity, they would grimace through their pain to show everyone how much they loved it. Corporate entries became hugely popular! Office chat stopped being about how expensive Sky TV was and became about how much they were shitting themselves for the weekend… This saw the rise of 'celebrity trainers’ who then got exposed to wider audiences and showed that because Davina McCall can do it, you can too!
While this was going on, there was another crowd, the ‘OG’s’, the ‘yeh I remember my first marathon in 1970…’, ‘No I don't use a GPS watch, that's not for pure runners like me’, ‘I won’t use nip tape, I like them to bleed through my 19yr old cotton vest’. All this would be said with a taste of resentment, now anyone could do what used to be their special trick, they were no longer seen as being ‘mad’. So what did they do? They stepped up their ‘mad game’.
Ultra marathons blew up, 50k races every other weekend. 50k not hard enough? No problem, there is the toughest foot race on earth in the Sahara desert called Marathon De Sables. It began in 1984, a similar time to the first IRONMAN but only 1 and 4 participants (respectively) were on the start lines, in 2019 MDS hit its peak participation of just over 1000 athletes with many more being denied and as said earlier more than 80,000 people participated in IRONMAN last year alone.
All this raised the participation bar and I for one love that it did. It helped uncover new talent, it has helped people to realise they can achieve way more than they ever thought, it has raised Billions and Billions for charities all around the world and it has ultimately given me and many other a career and passion in life. It may have been an explosion but the ripple effects are very much still going strong!
If you have found endurance sport has impacted your life, remember it isn’t the same for everyone but it is never too late. Encourage people to join you, go looking for undiscovered talent and help your friends, family and colleagues to find fun in endurance, however that may look. The money pumped into endurance sport set off the explosion but the makeup of it is you the participants.
To listen in to an interview we did with Olympian Sir Brendan Foster on how much running has grown, click here > https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/endurance54561/episodes/2020-06-23T23_19_21-07_00
To listen to an interview with the impact endurance can have on your life and the impact you can have on others with Andrea Talmacsi click here > https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/endurance54561/episodes/2020-02-26T04_53_58-08_00
To reach out to me, send me a mail on tw@innerfight.com
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