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Dehydration and Rapid Weight Reduction – The Risks

Dehydration and Rapid Weight Reduction – The Risks

Despite the health warnings and detrimental effect on performance associated with rapid weight reduction, boxers and other weight category athletes, continue to use unsound weight loss techniques to make weight, including: forced sweating, self-induced dehydration, starvation, and pathogenic methods such …

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Freediving: Take a Deep Breath

Freediving: Take a Deep Breath

If you’re interested in a sport that drops your heart rate, shrinks your blood vessels and directs your blood away from your limbs and extremities, then freediving is the one for you. Diving as far as you can on a …

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Mountaineering: The Women of Everest

Mountaineering: The Women of Everest

In the predominately male dominated world of mountaineering in the 1970’s one woman set the trail ablaze for female climbers. On 16 May 1975, Japanese climber, Junko Tabei, became the first woman to summit Mount Everest. At the age of …

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Heat: The Mechanics of Keeping Cool

Heat: The Mechanics of Keeping Cool

Even for the most experienced athletes, racing in hot environments is not without risk. Cramp, dehydration, heat exhaustion and even heat stroke are inherent dangers for marathon and ultra-runners competing in extreme temperatures and conditions. For those taking part in …

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Ice Swimming: Beyond the Extreme

Ice Swimming: Beyond the Extreme

As usual with any event that verges on the extreme there is always an individual or group who want to push the boundaries to the limit. In the world of Ice Swimming those who participate in the Ice Mile are …

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Chasing Immortality: The Sub-2 Hour Marathon

Chasing Immortality: The Sub-2 Hour Marathon

Within days of winning his fourth London Marathon in 2 hours, 2 minutes and 37 seconds, the second fastest time in history, Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge was setting his sights once again on the holy grail of distance running – the …

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