HOW TO START HYDRATED AND WHY IT’S IMPORTANT

By TrailRunMag

BY ANDY BLOW – SPORTS SCIENTIST AND FOUNDER OF PRECISION HYDRATION Much of the literature on hydration has focused on what athletes should drink during exercise, but your hydration status before you start exercising can have a huge impact upon your athletic performance… The benefits of starting exercise hydrated When people talk about hydration, most of the time it’s about what and how much athletes should drink during exercise. These are clearly important questions, but your performance is also massively influenced by how hydrated you are when you start exercising in…

Women Better Runners Than Men: Research

By TrailRunMag

It’s a headline that will rouse a few eyebrows, while also getting a few heads nodding in agreement (including those fellas who have recently been ‘chicked’, as the run crowd dubs it). But perhaps it’s something we all know deep down: women are better runners than men. That doesn’t mean an individual female is any faster/better than an individual male (although of course that can be the case), or that women hold the ‘fastest’ titles. That’d be like saying all all…