Running + Coaching. Passionate about sports science and performance. "What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?"
Cape Town, South Africa
Joined August 2015
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The term ‘warm-up’ is misleading because the purpose of a warm-up extends beyond simply increasing the bodies core body temperature.
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The concept of harmonious passion:
"Those who focus most on success are least likely to achieve it. Those who focus least on success, and focus on the process of engaging in their craft instead, are most likely to achieve it"
~ The Passion Paradox
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"There’s absolutely no physiological reason why a 7-day cycle is preferable to any other length of time. If anything, there’s a strong case to argue it’s a bit too short to fit everything in"
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Jonathan Black retweeted
Reminder to young athletes: Just because your favorite pro runner posts a seemingly insane & inspiring workout video to Instagram 4 times per week DOESN'T mean you should:
- Push your easy runs
- Overwork yourself in the short-term
- Only seek doing super impressive workouts
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When all you see are absolutes and not context you will limit the training and results of your athletes. Everything works, nothing works for ever, and some things work best in certain circumstances. The "this is the only way" mentality shows inexperience,arrogance or both. – at Coral Gables, FL
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Who was your biggest supporter at #CTMarathon? Tag them and let them know they got you to the end! 💙 #IMoveMe
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Sometimes I have to remind myself that the point of a session is to gain fitness, not to prove fitness. This takes confidence and patience.
Easy to do properly when you’ve recently had a good race result.
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If you enjoy our Twitter feed, do give us a follow over on our Facebook page. We'd like to try our hand at clickbait... Jokes aside, we'd like to start up some more casual training conversation over on that platform. Cheers, RS.
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ASICS FrontRunner @CMohokare had never planned to be a role model, but she did it. Her story coming soon. #IMoveMe
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Sleep is the most well-proven performance enhancement modalities out there, and arguably also the most poorly used/executed. Remember athletes: sleep is one of the most productive things you can do.
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"We prepare for a race with an idea in our minds of how we will feel at various points within a race. If there is a disconnect between our expectations and how we actually feel, there develops a sense of panic and concern. Our minds go into overdrive." runningscience.co.za/2018/08…
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"A Kenyan runner’s mentality is to run at the right speed. The Western runner’s mentality is to run the right distance.” - Renato Canova
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In our latest post, Coach Jonathan talks about his experience of journeying to Iten, Kenya where he got the opportunity to engage with some of the world’s best runners and their coaches. He shares with us some of the lessons that he took away from it all.
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Jonathan Black retweeted
Don't mistake understanding something for doing it.
Don't mistake talking about something for doing it.
Don't mistake telling your friends about how you're going to do something for doing it.
Doing it is doing it. It's as simple and as hard as that.
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Just published!
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A THREAD:
Something I often get asked is "How do you never get injured and stay consistent?"
(FYI - 2 days is the most I've had to miss due to injury/sickness over the last 5 years)
So these are a few things that I do, which I feel make a big difference:
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Very relevant in training:
“Not everything that counts can be measured, and not everything that can be measured counts”
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If you wait until the athlete is 100% ready to train you will never train. We have gone overboard with monitoring & forgotten that we are coaching people. Great coaching is about... trainingground.guru/articles…
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Sensational performance by #ASICSFrontRunner Mariella Dierks taking the win at #IM703Durban! – at Milnerton, South Africa
