Quality rather than quantity

You’re 25, you’ve been fighting for your place on the local club team for the last five years but year after year you’re told “sorry Jack but you’re just lacking that bit of pace.”

You’ve heard all this talk that some people are just born with those fast-twitch muscles that make them naturally fast while others – well, you know you can run all day, always at the front of the group doing laps.

Don’t despair, says Pat Flanagan, a man who, as trainer of the three All-Ireland-winning Kerry teams, as lecturer in Tralee IT in High Performance Training and Exercise Physiology and as co-founder of Peak Fitness, knows a thing or two about making people faster.