Ben St Lawrence
@bennysaint
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2 x Olympian at 10km. Co-founder and coach at Run Crew.
Joined August 2010
Remarkable run by Niamh Allen to finish 11th at the European Cross Country - she gave birth to her first child just three months ago. Spoke to her recently about her road back. https://t.co/xcu9prhA4m
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Eleven and a half weeks. That’s all it was. From the day Niamh Allen gave birth to her first child, Lily, to the day she raced to a silver medal at the Nat...
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Hope you enjoyed that Olympic marathon duel between the 5th placers in heats 3 and 5 of the 800m at the 2016 Olympics.
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I think a big problem in the world of health and performance is you get people who are truly world class at marketing and whose primary goal is growth and popularity completely overshadowing those who actually know what they are talking about.
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Strength training with high loads can improve performance (time trial, time to exhaustion) in middle-distance and long-distance runners. A greater improvement may be obtained when two or more strength training methods are combined CC @bennysaint
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Sports Medicine - The running performance of middle-distance and long-distance runners is determined by factors such as maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max), velocity at VO2max (vVO2max), maximum...
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I recently chatted to @_zacharygates about coaching Luke Boyes to his Australian Champs gold in the 800m (1:44.73). Luke has a bright future!
A Sunday read a week on from Luke Boyes’ epic win at the Australian athletics titles. He had beautiful words to say about his coach after the win. "Outside my wife it's possibly Luke who I spend the most time with,” coach Ben St Lawrence tells WWOS. https://t.co/uaSZyFVpsJ
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Boyes, the boy from the Blue Mountains, beats Bol ... blistering 🔥
LUKE BOYES HOLDS OFF PETER BOL! What an outstanding win from the 20-year old 🤩👏 Australian Athletics Championships is LIVE on 7plus: https://t.co/egVFCwurDw
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Congrats Matt Denny: Betty Cuthbert Medal, Best Single Performance at National Championships This is more than just a number, but how to compare men/women, track/field etc? @Worldathletics performance scores (like multievent tables) Top 10 winner's marks at #AustChamps
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New study assessed sleep quality in 1,600 U.S. Olympians. ~40% were classified as "poor sleepers." Takeaways: (1) there are a bunch of reasons hard training can interfere with sleep; (2) if your sleep isn't perfect, you can still make the Olympics. https://t.co/DmcLD4Winh
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Not as soundly as you’d expect, actually
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Going along with my last retweet of Andrew's post, effective #recovery for athletes isn't about massage guns, or normatec boots, or anything you can buy. It's about 3 things.... 1. Keep Life Stress Low... 🧘 You can allocate your body's autonomic resources to dealing with life
A little on the interplay between Training Stress and Life Stress on #HRV... From my own data, my mean change in HRV (rMSSD) following a) low, medium and high training stress days b) low, medium and high life stress days Days with very low life stress resulted in a similar
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Just because someone is a guest on Joe Rogan or any of these other bloviators does not make them an expert on training. Develop a filter and apply it religiously. Tune out the noise. Basics executed flawlessly will get you there.
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Female Athlete of the Year nominee ✨ Retweet to vote for Faith Kipyegon 🇰🇪 in the #AthleticsAwards.
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Low-Value Recovery: - Ibuprofen -Compression boots - Massage guns High-Value Recovery: - Walking - Chocolate milk - Time in nature - High-quality food - Good sleep hygiene
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Some things I have learned about endurance training the last 30 years, summarized in 10 lines:
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Recovery is important but first you have to do the requisite work to warrant recovery.
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ON TOP OF THE WORLD 🌍🥇🤯 Nina Kennedy joins the immortals of Australian athletics with the 2023 Women's Pole Vault WORLD TITLE, shared with the USA's Katie Moon. ✅ World champion ✅ World lead ✅ Top-10 all-time ✅ Australian record ✅ No words #ThisIsAthletics
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😮 Records continue to tumble in Australian athletics! Linden Hall has set a new Australian and Oceania record in the Women's 1500m — 3:57.27 17-year-old Cameron Myers has also broken the U18 Men's 1500m world record in his first Diamond League meet — 3:33.26
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A short highlights package from this morning’s epic @GCMarathon Half Marathon featuring @brettrobinson91 Kiera D’Amato Leanne Pompeani @bennysaint // @WorldAthletics @AthsAust
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D’Amato breaks American half marathon NR, Robinson over Mogi on the Gold Coast: https://t.co/3btjYzbD7d
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