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Sat 11 Nov 2009Altitude training may take you to new heights
ATHLETICS: Irish athletes have been dabbling with altitude training with mixed results. Andrew Ledwith is hopeful it will pay off in the European Cross country Championship
LAST TIME I heard from Ger Hartmann, a few weeks back, he was in Killarney, putting the Kerry footballers through a day of sadomasochism. Or “prehabilitation”, as he prefers to calls it: Hartmann’s method of addressing injuries before they happen through a range of core-strengthening exercises, coupled with vigorous flexibility. I once took part in such a session and my abs haven’t felt the same since. It was like someone had punched me in the stomach, repeatedly, all day.
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