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functional fitness, strength training, and flexibility
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Stregth Training and Functional Fitness with a Warrior's Attitude
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Total Body Transformation Training BlogA journey about training the entire body to acheive peak fitness and health. Whole body training isn't about body building, toning or running a marathon per se. It's about teaching the body to optimize and balance strength, speed, and strength-endurance. And it's about developing an attitude that is all to lacking in the West around hard work, effort, and the meaning of the journey. Monday, March 08, 2004Marathon & Ultrarunning Information SiteMarathon & Beyond -- The web site for marathoners and ultrarunners.This website discusses the major physiological issues with endurance events and specifically with marathon running. If you have always wanted to know about the importance and synergy around VO2MAX, lactate threshold, and peak performance then Marathon & Beyond is a good place to start. Interestingly, there has been a lot of recent discussion in the functional fitness world on whether human beings are indeed "born to run" as the Marathon & Beyond site suggests. Harvard magazine did an article a while back on "The Marathon Man" suggesting that through evolution man has evolved as being suitable for distance events but not for short term speed work. The hypothesis was that sustained years of short term speed work promoted more physical breakdown than endurance events. Certainly there is little doubt about the body composition differences of sprinters and marathon runners. Sprinters have a composition that more closely resembles gymnasts, mid distance swimmers, rowers and mixed sport athletes. Marathoners tend to be very lean with little added musculature. But this doesn't describe the composition of triathaletes or other ultra-endurance athletes.
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