Sea Level to Summit: 5 Tips for Flatlanders Training for the Mountains
It has been my experience that as an endurance athlete you either love or hate the mountains. Typically, that is determined by where you...
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Chris McKnight
- Oct 27, 2019
Top 5 lessons I Learned During My First Ultramarathon
I was anxious at the starting gate of the Piney Woods Ultra. I was about to begin the longest run I’d ever attempted. Though I felt...
Jason Gates
- Oct 12, 2018
Easy Does It: Top 8 Ways To Actively Recover
For many athletes, one of the hardest things is not completing scheduled hard workouts, but rather working in adequate recovery time into...
Jason Gates
- Sep 24, 2018
Mind Over Matter: The Importance of Building Mental Fitness
Mental and emotional fitness, in my opinion is greatest attribute that an endurance athlete, or any other for that matter, can develop....
Jason Gates
- Sep 15, 2018
Goal Setting: How to Successfully Set and Achieve a Goal
Setting goals are important for progression, achievement and growth in life. This could be anything from an athletic endeavors to life...
Jason Gates
- Sep 14, 2018
Top 3 Ways To Gauge Training Intensity and Performance
Today all too often athletes overexert themselves during their training and life in general. Rather, than taking into account life’s...
Brendon Voelker
- Aug 19, 2018
10 Things To Consider When Purchasing a GPS Watch
With all the advances in technology over the past few years, chances are most runners carry with them some type of watch or device with...
Jason Gates
- Mar 16, 2018
It's All About Heart: How to Calculate Training Intensity Through Heart Rate Zones
When setting goals for training many athletes will take a random approach rather than a realistic fact based approach. This might be...
Ultra Expeditions
- Sep 26, 2017
Tools of the Trade: Top Three Traits for Endurance Athletes to be Successful
Looking back over time there have been certain traits and skill sets that come to the forefront that I have noticed both personally, in...
Justin Wilson
- Aug 24, 2017
Defeat The Heat: Lessons learned from a former Army Ranger
After a long week preparing for a live fire exercise, we finally make it to the desert-like land where the action is about to take place....
Jason Gates
- Mar 1, 2017
Sport Specific Programming vs. Non-Sport Specific Programming
Over the years while training with many different types of athletes, I have seen many different types of programming. While each has a...
Jason Gates
- Nov 5, 2016
Drink Up: 10 Reasons Why Bottles Are Better Than Bladders
When it comes to hydration, for the most part there seems to be two distinct camps, those that prefer bottles and those that prefer...
Jason Gates
- Jul 13, 2016
Suffer. Better. Lessons Learned from Leadville 100 Training Camp
The great philosopher Mike Tyson once quoted “Everyone has a plan ‘till they get punched in the mouth” and like Mike I had been punched...
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