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  Get your water intake right.
Water requirements increase dramatically during training. This is logical. What you need to keep in mind is - 3% dehydration equals 10% loss of muscle strength and 8% of speed. Quite dramatic during an AR. |
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Maximise your potential with food
Whether you are in the race to win, or doing it for the challenge, it is essential that you eat nutritionally before, during and after a race to ensure you operate at your optimum. |
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 So you want to give Adventure Racing a try?
Adventure Racing is about challenging and pushing your body to the edge. It is essential that you prepare correctly |
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 Choosing a Kayak, What and Why
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 Kayaking - starting out or improving your kayak skills.
Are you new to adventure racing or just want to improve the kayak leg of your adventure race. |
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 Kayak training at Port Melbourne
Melbourne based company Peak Adventure, run by Jarad Kohlar, has started up kayak training out of Port Melbourne |
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 Take Charge! Managing Your Emotions
Adventure races can be an emotional roller coaster, with many highs and lows. How you are feeling at any given time will significantly affect your level of performance. |
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 Seeing Is Believing! How To Use Visualisation Techniques
Visualisation and Mental Rehearsal are one of the most heard of, and most popular mental training techniques |
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 Ropes III - Ascending
I can not emphasise this enough – PRACTICE – abseiling really doesn’t require much skill but ascending a rope does. |
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 Ropes II - Abseiling
So now you should all be standing at the top of a precipice with your back to the fresh air. |
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 Ropes I - Equipment
A series of articles attempting to demystify the use of ropes in Adventure Racing. |
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 Set Goals to Succeed
Are You Navigating Your Way To Success In Life’s Great Adventure Race? |
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Are You Tough Enough ... Mentally!
Studies have shown that 85% of your success, depends primarily on your attitude rather than your aptitude |
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 Expedition Racing And Sleep Strategy
Their pre-race relaxation strategy was watching porn videos ,which kind of put me off my sandwiches, but I had a truly great time racing with them |
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 Team Assistants – The Roadies of Adventure Racing
Welcome to the wacky world of those sad individuals we all need but nobody really wants to be – the team assistant |
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 Paddling Your Own Canoe – Without Going Up The Creek
Water sections can provide some of the most exciting and memorable moments in adventure racing, from sea kayaking in the Atlantic Ocean in huge surf to rafting grade IV white-water. |
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 Ten Golden Rules of Solo Racing
You’re on a featureless moor in the pouring rain with two team-mates arguing about which way to go, thinking ‘If only I could get rid of those two idiots’ |
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 Going in the Right Direction
Navigation plays a crucial part in Adventure Racing but doing it consistently well can be very difficult. |
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 Mountain biking
Mountain biking forms an integral part of all adventure races. Strong teams can make up huge time advantages and good teamwork reaps rewards. |
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 You Can Lead a Horse to Water but ….
I didn’t know quite what I was letting myself in for. I’d never sat on a horse before – but I did know the front end bites and the back end kicks! |
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 Setting a Training Schedule
It is very difficult to set a training schedule for an adventure racer, especially in this day and age when people seem to work all the time. |
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 Team Work
It’s not difficult to see that activities/tasks are more efficiently done when people work together. The thing is, do we know what being a team player involves, and hence what makes good team work? |
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 20 Ways to Motivate Yourself
The hardest part of training is walking out of the door … So make it easy for yourself to do - enjoy it, get into a routine and be comfortable. If you do not enjoy it there’s little point. |
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 Doing the Legwork – Running
The broad spectrum of adventure races means that the type of running encountered can vary from short and fast stages to long 20 hour plus mountain sections. |
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 Planning a Team Training and Race Schedule
The success of any team requires careful and structured planning and in adventure racing this is even more important because of the diverse range of disciplines and athletes involved in the team. |
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'Nutrition - The Sugar Bureau' |
'Fitness - The Endurance Coach' |
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