Training
Sport and work: fitting endurance training into your diary
Struggling to combine sport and a demanding job? Follow this guide to fit endurance training into a packed schedule, with simple steps.
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Training
How to get your long run right: 7 secrets
How do you handle your long run without wearing yourself out? The Slek coaches share 7 practical secrets. Avoid the mistakes and find the right pace.
Training
SMART goals, and then what? Why WOOP makes the difference for athletes
In an earlier article (SMART sports goals: the step-by-step guide) we looked at how to build clear, coherent training goals with the SMART method. Knowing where you are going and laying the foundations is an essential first step. But in the reality of day-to-day training, framing a goal is not always enough […]
Training
Balancing work and endurance sport | The practical Slek guide
Balancing work, family and endurance sport can feel like an impossible puzzle. Between busy working days, family life, fatigue and the unexpected, plenty of athletes feel they are always sacrificing something. Yet that balance is no myth if you set a realistic, flexible and sustainable frame. With better organisation […]
Coaching
A coach's mental load: the guide, and the tech that helps
A coach's mental load is still rarely named, even though it runs through the daily life of a great many people working in sport. When you have to plan, reassure, follow, analyse, adjust and handle the admin on top, the tiredness does not only come from the field. It comes from everything you have to hold in your head at all times. Among […]
Training
5 techniques for managing pre-race stress
Just before an event, stress is not necessarily the enemy: in the right dose it helps you mobilise, concentrate and act. The problem starts when it spills over and disturbs your breathing, your thoughts, your clarity or your sensations. Managing pre-race stress therefore means working on the mental side with as much […]