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The research found elite athletes approached training with a “never satisfied” attitude, whereas ‘almosts’ might avoid challenging training exercises, while following an injury or a failure to perform, high performers were determined to get back to their sports, stronger than ever. Low achievers, on the other hand, often expressed surprise at their failures, telling how they lost enthusiasm after such incidents.

Despite these differences in the athletes’ attitudes, there was surprisingly little variation in the nature or number of the challenges themselves. All had roughly comparable traumatic incidents during their careers. More than the challenges themselves, the differences came down to how the athletes reacted to these obstacles and the champions’ positive, “learn from it” attitudes.

“We’ve found that there are universal psychological characteristics amongst those who are aspiring to get to the top,” says lead author Professor Dave Collins from the Institute of Coaching and Performance at the University of Central Lancashire. “We have a good idea of what makes people excellent and how we can help them reach peak performance.”

Through interviews Collins and his team sought to find distinguishing characteristics between the best of the best, the good, and those that didn’t quite make the cut. For each participant, they collected information about career trajectory, perceived challenges and the participant’s reactions to such obstacles. Interview questions also explored participants’ commitment to their sports and their interactions with coaches and families.

“From our research, we’re assembling a set of rules to guide what a coach should be doing and what skills an athlete should end up with,” says Collins. “Furthermore, these characteristics hold true for other fields as well, from sports to music to any environment.”

While challenge may be integral on the path to success, this research suggests that challenge is not sufficient in itself. An aspiring athlete’s attitude towards challenge is what most distinguishes the champions from the rest.

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 “This is a very time-efficient workout strategy,” says lead author Martin Gibala, a professor of kinesiology at McMaster University in Canada. “Brief bursts of intense exercise are remarkably effective.”

The team of scientists set out to determine how sprint interval training (SIT) compared to moderate-intensity continuous training (MICT). They examined key health indicators including cardiorespiratory fitness and insulin sensitivity, a measure of how the body regulates blood sugar.

A total of 27 sedentary men were recruited and assigned to perform three weekly sessions of either intense or moderate training for 12 weeks, or to a control group that did not exercise).

The McMaster team has previously shown that the SIT protocol, which involved three 20-second ‘all-out’ cycle sprints, was effective for boosting fitness. The workout totalled just 10 minutes, including a 2-minute warm-up and 3-minute cool down, and two minutes of easy cycling for recovery between the hard sprints.

The new study compared the SIT protocol with a group who performed 45 minutes of continuous cycling at a moderate pace, plus the same warm-up and cool down. After 12 weeks of training, the results were remarkably similar, even though the MICT protocol involved five times as much exercise and a five-fold greater time commitment.

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 “Our study shows that an interval-based approach can be more efficient — you can get health and fitness benefits comparable to the traditional approach, in less time.”

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Frodeno is only man to have ever won both the Olympic gold medal and the Ironman World Championship, and also won another honour last week with the Laureus Action Sportsperson of the Year Award, the first triathlete to receive a Laureus Award. He is also reported to be going for the for long-distance world record at Challenge Roth

“I’m looking forward to heading back to my old training grounds. I’ve spent many weeks on the island, and at Club La Santa, with the German team, preparing for the summer and always enjoyed its hospitality.”

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Frodeno will join more than 1800 registered athletes from over 60 countries, including our staff writer Jack Sexty. Reckon you can take him on Jack…?! 

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Our features editor Matt Baird’s debut book Triathlon! (Aurum Press) has been selected for an Illustrated Book of the Year nomination, while Lucy Fry’s Run, Ride, Sink or Swim (Faber & Faber) has been selected for the Freshtime New Writer of the Year gong.

Featuring chapters on the greatest triathletes in history, Triathlon! covers the men and women who have made the sport their own, inspiring thousands to follow in their footsteps.

Alongside the athletes that have made their mark on the sport, Triathlon! profiles some of the world’s greatest events, from classics such as Challenge Roth and from Alcatraz, Brit races The Outlaw, Slateman and more, to the far-flung challenges of the Norseman, Challenge Wanaka or Ironman 70.3 Bintan.

Triathlon! also explores the evolution of triathlon gear – the bikes, aerobars, tri wetsuits, GPS devices and nutrition developed to give triathletes the edge against their competitors.

CROSS SPORTS BOOK AWARDS

The 2016 awards will be presented by Sky Sports news presenter Mike Wedderburn and Test Match Special’s Alison Mitchell which takes place at Lord’s Cricket Ground on 1st June. An hour long highlights show will be shown on Sky Sports with multiple repeat shows on June 4th and 5th.

After the individual category winners have been announced on 1 June, each winner will then be promoted in a media and retail campaign with an online public vote determining the Overall Cross Sports Book of the Year.

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The list of full nominated titles:

Illustrated Book of the Year 

Matthew Baird ‘Triathlon! A tribute to the world’s greatest triathletes, courses and gear’ Aurum Press
Paul Connolly ‘Richie Benaud: Those Summers of Cricket 1930-2015’ Hardie Grant Books
‘Tour de France 2015 – The Official Review’ Vision Sports Publishing
Bob Martin ‘1/100th – The Sports Photography of Bob Martin’ Vision Sports Publishing
Roger McStravick ‘St Andrews in the Footsteps of Old Tom Morris’ St Andrews Press
Mark Platt ‘This is Anfield’ Carlton Books

Freshtime New Writer of the Year 

Emily Bullock ‘The Longest Fight’ Myriad Editions
Ed Caeser ‘Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon’ Viking
Lucy Fry ‘Run, Ride, Sink or Swim’ Faber & Faber
Martin Hardy ‘Touching Distance’ DeCoubertin Books
Lizzy Hawker ‘Runner – A short story about a long run’ Aurum Press
Anne Lauppe-Dunbar ‘Dark Mermaids’ Seren Books

Cycling Book of the Year

Peter Cossins ‘Alpe D’Huez – The Story of Pro Cycling’s Greatest Climb’ Aurum Press
William Fotheringham ‘Bernard Hinault & the Fall & Rise of French Cycling’ Yellow Jersey Press
Ian MacGregor ‘To Hell on a Bike’ Bantam Press
Dave Millar ‘The Racer’ Yellow Jersey Press
Edward Pickering ‘The Yellow Jersey Club’ Bantam Press
Geraint Thomas ‘The World of Cycling According to G’ Quercus

Cross Autobiography of the Year

Steve Davis ‘Interesting’ Ebury
Steven Gerrard ‘My Story’ Penguin
David Lloyd ‘Last in the Tin Bath’ Simon & Schuster
Nigel Mansell ‘Staying on Track’ Simon & Schuster
AP McCoy ‘Winner’ Orion
Max Mosley ‘Formula One and Beyond’ Simon & Schuster

The Times Biography of the Year

Guillem Balague ‘Cristiano Ronaldo’ Orion
Andy Bull ‘Speed Kings’ Bantam Press
John Cross ‘Arsene Wenger’ Simon & Schuster
Donald McRae ‘A Man’s World’ Simon & Schuster
Richard Tomlinson ‘ Amazing Grace: The Man Who Was W.G.’ Little, Brown
Luke G. Williams ‘Richmond Unchained: The Biography of the World’s First Black Sporting Star’ Amberley

Littlehampton Book Services Cricket Book of the Year

Scyld Berry ‘Cricket: The Game of Life’ Hodder & Stoughton
Stephen Chalke ‘Summer’s Crown’ Fairfield Books
Steve James ‘The Art of Centuries’ Bantam Press
Tim Lane and Elliot Cartledge ‘Chasing Shadows: The Life and Death of Peter Roebuck’ Hardie Grant Books
Simon Lister ‘Fire in Babylon’ Yellow Jersey Press
Richard Tomlinson ‘Amazing Grace: The Man Who Was W. G.’ Little, Brown

Barclays Football Book of the Year

Guillem Balague ‘Cristiano Ronaldo’ Orion
Michael Calvin ‘Living on the Volcano’ Century
John Cross ‘Arsene Wenger’ Simon & Schuster
Andrew Jennings ‘The Dirty Game’ Century
James Lawton ‘The Forever Boys’ Wisden
Ronald Reng ‘Matchdays’ Simon & Schuster

Blink Publishing General Outstanding Sports Writing Award

Darren Barker with Ian Ridley ‘A Dazzling Darkness: The Darren Barker Story’ Floodlit Dreams
Ed Caesar ‘Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon’ Viking
John Daniell ‘The Fixer’ Saltway
Willie Finnegan ‘Barbarian Days A Surfing Life’ Little, Brown
Richard Moore ‘The Bolt Supremacy’ Yellow Jersey Press
William Skidelsky ‘Federer and Me: A Story of Obsession’ Yellow Jersey Press

Cross International Autobiography of the Year Award

Dan Carter ‘Dan Carter: The Autobiography of an All Blacks Legend’ Headline
Didier Drogba ‘Commitment: My Autobiography’ Hodder & Stoughton
Michael Lynagh and Mark Eglinton ‘Blindsided’ HarperSport
Marco Negri with Jeff Holmes ‘Moody Blue: The Story of Mysterious Marco’ Pitch Publishing
Ronda Rousey ‘My Fight, Your Fight’ Arrow
Mark Webber ‘Aussie Grit’ Pan Macmillan

Arbuthnot Latham Rugby Book of the Year

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Tony Collins ‘The Oval World: A Global History of Rugby’ Bloomsbury
Stephen Cooper ‘After the Final Whistle’ History Press
Tom English ‘No Borders: Playing Rugby for Ireland’ Arena Sport
Stephen Ferris ‘Man and Ball’ Transworld Ireland
Adam Jones ‘Bomb: My Autobiography’ Headline
Phil Larder with Nicholas Bishop ‘The Iron Curtain – My Rugby Journey from League to Union’ Pitch Publishing

This is the first investigation that compares the effects of heat and low-oxygen training side by side and the findings suggests that heat-based exercise can offer a more efficient means of improving altitude tolerance and physical performance than normobaric altitude training can provide.

“We show that when the duration and frequency of training performed in heat or at altitude are the same, the heat-based training can offer a more obtainable and time-efficient method to improving tolerance to altitude,” says lead author Dr. Ben J. Lee, from the University of Coventry. 

Dr. Lee and his co-authors asked a number of male cyclists to perform a time trial and tested their tolerance to low-oxygen levels before and after a series of ten daily 60 minute training sessions in either low-oxygen or hot conditions. In addition, blood samples were taken to see how their cells responded to the different training methods experienced by the cyclists.

Heat-based training reduced the physical strain experienced by the cyclists, as measured by their temperature and heart rates, as well as improved their time-trial performance. These positive effects matched those experienced by the cyclists that undertook low-oxygen training. The blood analysis showed that the stress response at a cellular level was also the same, indicating that there was little difference between the two exercise methods.

“There are many companies that provide normobaric altitude training and acclimation sessions prior to completing mountainous treks. However, the evidence that this form of training offers any enhanced adaptation to ‘real world’ altitude is limited. Therefore people preparing for an altitude trek may be better off training with a heat stimulus rather than paying for expensive altitude sessions,” suggests Dr. Lee.

The authors of the study stress there are some limitations to their findings, with the results only relevant to the recreational, rather than high-performance, athlete. In addition, the cyclists were not tested for their performance at high altitudes. “Our results have only been tested using artificial altitude oxygen levels and not real-world altitudes,” explains Dr Lee.

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“The British Paratriathlon Championships arrive at a fitting point in the 2016 calendar. With a month to go until the sport makes its debut at the Rio Paralympics, athletes will be looking to make their final preparations ahead of the Games and get race-ready on home soil,” said Jonathan Riall, British Paratriathlon Head Coach.

The paratriathletes will be competing over the sprint distance, a swim of 750m, cycle 20km using hand cycles, bicycles or tandem bicycles with a guide, and a 5km wheelchair or running race. Athletes compete in six categories according to the nature of their physical ability.

Paratriathlon: the ultimate guide

 “Not only do the championships offer an occasion to showcase some of the country’s finest sporting talent, they also create a chance to unearth potential stars of the future and increase paratriathlon participation; giving novices the chance to race alongside established names. It should be a great day combining all aspects of multisport for spectators to enjoy,” said Jonathon.

Participants who are physically or visually impaired who aspire to compete in national or international paratriathlon can obtain an official classification before Tri Liverpool by emailing the paratriathlon team at [email protected].

CEO of British Triathlon, Jack Buckner, said: “This announcement is significant for our sport, as we look to bring together both triathletes and paratriathletes to compete on the same iconic course. With flat terrain, swift transition and a looping urban route, it’s a chance for all our competitors to aim for a smooth performance, whether it be a potential Rio rehearsal for our elite paratriathletes, or just for fun.”

Further British Championship races taking place at Tri Liverpool are the British Elite Sprint DistanceTriathlon Championships and the British Age-Group Standard Distance Championships. A fully inclusive event which aims to cater for participants of all abilities and experience, Tri Liverpool will also host a sprint distance race, sprint relay and GO TRI+ beginner event on the day. Around 2000 participants are expected to take part, with the standard distance race already at maximum capacity with a waiting list of over 100 people looking to enter.

For more information about Tri Liverpool, visit www.triliverpool.com

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Teammate Taylor-Brown attempted to go with her, while the chase followed 25 seconds behind, but on the bell lap it was only Lee who managed to keep the chase at bay while Taylor-Brown fell back to the large pack.

From there, it was no stopping Lee, as she dropped off her bike and shot out to the run. Despite running a few extra metres on the back of the first lap, which saw her lead dwindle from from 42 seconds to 37, the mistake wasn’t enough to cause her the win.

Germany’s Lisa Sieburger secured second after fighting her way back into the race on a challenging bike course, while bronze went to Austria’s Lisa Perterer.

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The 2016 Brit tri girls winning streak…

Gold for Brit Lucy Hall in Spain
Non Stanford claims stunning victory in Cape Town
Helen Jenkins wins WTS Gold Coast in Australia
Jodie Stimpson wins in Mooloolaba
Jodie Stimpson takes season opener in Abu Dhabi