Another grueling Leeds visit

This week saw Dee head up to Leeds Metropolitan University for one of her regular training assessments. The Vendée Globe is looming ever closer so the sports scientists were keen to ensure that the current fitness programme is working and finding where performance improvements can be made. The rigorous schedule put Dee through her paces with a series of demanding gym testing sessions on the treadmill, in the weights room and the all important visit to the infamous BodPod. Looking more like the set of Mork and Mindy than a gym, Dee entered the BodPod, an egg shaped contraption which measures body density by air displacement.

The Leeds Met team have adopted a holistic approach to Dee’s training, assisting Dee with advice on her sleeping regime and diet. The team have spent time analysing the ‘food and sleep diary’ Dee has been religiously updating throughout her solo sailing and racing to find out how to maximise Dee’s performance.

Whilst Dee takes a well deserved rest over the next couple of weeks, Team Caffari will be gearing up for there annual plod around Southampton Common as they take part in the Race for Life on Sunday 13th July.  Let’s hope that the sun shines down on us!!

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