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Who is Doctor Andrew Bosch?

Andrew was born in East London, South Africa and attended Selborne College. He has a PhD in exercise physiology and has recorded a time of 31min 20sec for 10km he has excelled over various distances with a best time of 2Hr 22min for the marathon. He has placed 3rd in...
The Great VO2 max Myth

The Great VO2 max Myth

The Great VO2 max Myth by Doctor Andrew Bosch I often receive telephone calls from runners wanting to know if it would be possible to measure their VO2 max. My standard answer is something along the lines that it is, indeed, possible. VO2 max measured However, I then...
Collapse in the heat

Collapse in the heat

Historically, the understanding has been that runners collapse (often at the end of races) due to dehydration. This is popularly thought to be more likely when the environmental temperature is high and dehydration more severe. The term heat exhaustion has been used to...
Post run stiffness

Post run stiffness

Lactic acid build-up is the cause of post hard-run stiffness ……. Wrong! Most runners believe that the stiffness and muscle pain felt after a marathon or hard run is caused by lactic acid. While this was believed correct some decades ago, we now know that lactic acid,...