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Do Tri Bars Make A Difference?

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Do Tri Bars Make A Difference?

Spoiler alert: YES tri bars make a difference. They are the quickest, cheapest way to improve your speed on the bike. If your finger is too tried to scroll  right now right now-no TOOLS required once set up to get on and off easily. (They are a product of kickstarter too!)   There is a […]

Filed Under: Bike Tagged With: aero bars, aerodynamic, best ways to get aero, cycling, faster on bike, faster triathlon, how to cycle faster, how to get aero, improve cycling, tri bars

4 Easy Tips To Improve Your Swimming Kick For Triathletes

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4 Easy Tips To Improve Your Swimming Kick For Triathletes

Learning to improve your swimming kick is so very important for triathletes. Triathletes need to focus on conserving energy in swimming even more than pure swimmers. After our swim, we still have 2 more gruelling legs to complete before we can stop (and two rather stressful transitions!). Efficiency rules the day in the swim leg. […]

Filed Under: Swim Tagged With: better kicking, improve kicking, improve swimming, improve swimming technique, swim kicking, swimming triathletes

What I Think About When I Run

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What I Think About When I Run

I always try to improve my mental toughness running and training in general. I certainly have not mastered it but I know through practice, I am better than I was. I also know it makes a massive difference in sports performance. I have put down my thoughts, but please comment with any strategies that work for […]

Filed Under: Mental Edge Tagged With: mental chatter, mental toughness, mind coach triathlon, mind coaching, power of the mind, running chatter

Lower Back Pain Cycling: How To Beat It

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Lower Back Pain Cycling: How To Beat It

Lower back pain cycling is one of the most common injuries in the sport. In fact people who cycle 160 km or more per week are 3.6 times as likely to experience LBP compared with people who cycle less than 160 km per week according to the School of Public Health, Townsville Australia. When we think […]

Filed Under: Bike Tagged With: back pain cycling triathlon, back pain in cycling, Back pain triathlon, bike fit, bike fit back pain, neck pain cycling, neck pain triathlon

Swimming for triathletes: Why is breathing so darn difficult?

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Swimming for triathletes: Why is breathing so darn difficult?

Swimming for triathletes can be one of the biggest reasons that even very fit athletes, give up triathlon. Many say they just “can’t get their breathing right”. In most cases it is not lack of fitness, rather lack of technique. Poor swimming is not lack of fitness, rather it is lack of technique. Click To […]

Filed Under: Swim Tagged With: faster swim times, improve swimming, improve swimming technique, improve triathlon swimming, open water swimming, Swimming for triathletes, swimming technique

What Is In My Triathlon Training Journal?

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What Is In My Triathlon Training Journal?

A triathlon training journal is one of the most important triathlon training tools you could have! Not a Garmin, Not a Heart rate monitor Not a turbo trainer But a triathlon training plan and a triathlon training journal. As the great management consultant Peter Drucker said “what gets measured, gets managed”. Put simply, progress is motivating. A […]

Filed Under: Triathlon Training Tagged With: beginner triathlon training program, how to train for Ironman, sprint triathlon training program, training journal, triathlon training, triathlon training journal, triathlon training programme

Triathlon training: Does caffeine enhance and race performance?

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Triathlon training: Does caffeine enhance  and race performance?

Triathlon training is about hard work plus a continual search for the “edge” , where you can get an advantage on our competitors. That extra exercise we can do or that little something we can take that will help us keep going when others give up or will give us that little burst of power […]

Filed Under: Triathlon Training Tagged With: 70.3 training, caffeine and triathlon, ironman training, sprint triathlon training, triathlon training, triathlon training plan

Swim Drills For Triathletes: Top 5 Bad Ass Swim Drills

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Swim Drills For Triathletes: Top 5 Bad Ass Swim Drills

Learning correct swim drills for triathletes is essential to race fast and reduce effort level required. High mileage without good technique is a recipe for disaster. It means either you just won’t improve very much (as you will just be getting stronger at the wrong thing) OR you will get swimmer’s shoulder and rotator cuff tendonitis due to loading the […]

Filed Under: Swim Tagged With: improve swim performance, improve swimming, improve triathlon swim performance, triathlon swim, triathlon swim drills, triathlon swim secrets, triathlon training

Strength training for triathletes (Look good AND improve performance!)

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Strength training for triathletes (Look good AND improve performance!)

Strength training for triathletes is so important. Strength training delivers much faster triathlon race results in almost no time at all! But most triathletes would rather do another 3 hour run than hit the weights room for 30 minutes. It is a cultural thing that is pounded into people in triathlon clubs that “volume is everything” […]

Filed Under: Strength Training Tagged With: 70.3 strength training, get faster triathlon, Ironman strength training, strength training, strength training triathlon, triathlon training, triathlon training plan

Knee Pain Running: Fix Runner’s Knee Pain For Good

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Knee Pain Running: Fix Runner’s Knee Pain For Good

Knee pain running makes your heart sink! When you realise that niggle in your knee you felt yesterday is still there today! Oh no… maybe it just needs one more day of rest and it will disappear. Maybe it is only in your mind? Internally you are sweating buckets as you have a race coming […]

Filed Under: Run Tagged With: fix my knee pain, improve running technique, ITB syndrome, knee cap pain, knee pain running, runner's knee, running injury, triathlon injury, triathlon training

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