The other day I answered this question as well as I could. As I wrote the answer, I thought, how often have I answered this same question? I thought, how many others are asking the same question? 
 
Hi AL
 
This may be a dumb-arse question and please let me know if it is, but is there any way of training your body or supplements that can help to maximise your oxygen uptake into the muscles of the body?
 
Cheers S—–

Hi S—- 

 
Once a big endurance base is built specific VO2 Max training can be …

Last year I was injured in a bike fall. It took months before I was able to run properly. I could swim and bike but the pain in my hip and groin prevented any run training for twenty-two weeks. This meant I missed both Australian Ironman qualifying races. I had entered both. I now have two very expensive t-shirts. What made this most annoying was the fact that I entered a new age group in June and was looking forward to racing in Hawaii in the first year of my new …

The other day I heard an interesting interview with Mark Winterbottom, racing car driver with the V8 Supercar Series.
He made the statement that seemed to fit with any sport. He had just won a 400km race by holding his concentration and skills at as close to 100% as possible for the whole race. He said that there are times when it’s possible to go over the level which he calls 100%. That level is the level at which the engine can actually give more than is safe, it’s at this …