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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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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” […]
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 […]
