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How To Get Your Winter Base Training Right

By Dan Golding 1 Comment

How To Get Your Winter Base Training Right

This is an excellent guest post by good friend and triathlon coach Mikael Eriksson. There are some golden nuggets in here- so make sure you don’t just read it but pick out at least one new strategy or tool to implement right away! * * * * The winter months is when the foundations for […]

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Swimmers Shoulder: How To Prevent and Treat Shoulder Pain

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Swimmers Shoulder: How To Prevent and Treat Shoulder Pain

Swimmers shoulder is an umbrella term covering a range of painful shoulder overuse injuries that occur in swimmers. You may feel shoulder pain at the point of the shoulder, into the collar bone, down the arm or up into the neck. Being an overuse injury, it is caused by repeated trauma rather than a specific […]

Filed Under: Swim Tagged With: rotator cuff injuries, rotator cuff pain, shoulder pain swimming, shoulder pain with swimming, swimmers shoulder, treatment for swimmers shoulder

Best Cycling Workouts: How To Be A Ninja On The Bike In Just 4 Weeks!

By Dan Golding 2 Comments

Best Cycling Workouts: How To Be A Ninja On The Bike In Just 4 Weeks!

Cycling workouts? Haven’t you heard them all before? Maybe- but are you doing them? To “know them” but not to do them is not to know them (if that makes sense!) You must be ready for the pain locker! (or as Chris McCormack famously calls it “the hurt locker”) If you are a beginner, of course, you […]

Filed Under: Bike Tagged With: bike workout, cycling workouts, cycling workouts for triathletes

Ironman Marathon: Top 10 Mistakes Most Triathletes Make And How To Avoid Them

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Ironman Marathon: Top 10 Mistakes Most Triathletes Make And How To Avoid Them

The Ironman marathon for most athletes involves a few hours of pure hell of just clinging on until the finish. Many of the field end up walking a significant portion of the marathon. There are common mistakes made by many triathletes when preparing for an Ironman marathon. These are the top 10! 1) Underestimate Training Involved […]

Filed Under: Run Tagged With: how to train for Ironman, Ironman marathon marathon pacing, Ironman racing, marathon

Mind Training Triathlon: If Success Is 70% Between The Ears, Ignore It At Your Peril

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Mind Training Triathlon: If Success Is 70% Between The Ears, Ignore It At Your Peril

Mind training triathlon- really? Isn’t that just for golfers? Look, you are already an awesome athlete. You are far fitter than most of your peers and ALL of your work colleagues (though often that’s not hard!) It is when you get to a race that the rubber hits the road though –right? Suddenly you are […]

Filed Under: Mental Edge Tagged With: mental strength, mental toughness, mental toughness in sport, mind coaching, mind training, mind training triathlon

Best Half Marathon Training Plan To Go From 10km to Half Marathon FAST

By Dan Golding 1 Comment

Best Half Marathon Training Plan To Go From 10km to Half Marathon FAST

There are plenty of claims of “best half marathon training plan” out there to tell you that you can train for a half-marathon in just 12 weeks. Yes some people can do it IF they already have a baseline. But in reality, going from the couch(no running at all) to half-marathon in 12 weeks will […]

Filed Under: Run Tagged With: 70.3 70.3 half marathon, best half marathon training plan, Half Ironman, half marathon, half marathon training plan, how to train for half marathon

Crossfit And Triathlon Training: Is Crossfit Relevant Training Or Just A Distraction?

By Dan Golding 5 Comments

Crossfit And Triathlon Training: Is Crossfit Relevant Training Or Just A Distraction?

Crossfit and triathlon training may seem like strange bedfellows at first glance. But with some triathletes halving their training volume  and getting the best results of their career, it is worth looking at closely. We get a lot of questions at Triathlon-Hacks.com about whether crossfit and triathlon training  can work together to improve strength and triathlon […]

Filed Under: Strength Training Tagged With: crossfit and the triathlete, crossfit strength training, crossfit training, crossfit triathlon training, is crossfit useful for triathlon training, triathlon and crossfit training

How to Cycle Faster Downhill: 10 Kick-Ass Tips To Help You Descend Like A Pro

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How to Cycle Faster Downhill: 10 Kick-Ass Tips To Help You Descend Like A Pro

How to cycle faster downhill is one aspect of cycling that you might not think about until you are cycling with a group, you are all the same standard of fitness, you are keeping up with them… Until you come to a descent. Suddenly you are still cycling as fast as you can, but the […]

Filed Under: Bike Tagged With: cycle faster downhill, descending fast on the bike, how to cycle faster, how to descend like a pro, road bike skills

#1 Mistake In Strength Training Triathletes Make ALL The Time

By Dan Golding 2 Comments

#1 Mistake In Strength Training Triathletes Make ALL The Time

Triathletes are well known for training hard and training consistently. But it is training effectively which is most important. It is effective strength training triathletes need to pay more attention to. In strength training triathletes often get it wrong. They often turn it into a cardio session doing too many reps and very light weights. There […]

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How To Structure Your Triathlon Swim Workout: A Beginner’s Guide

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How To Structure Your Triathlon Swim Workout: A Beginner’s Guide

Do you actually consider how to structure your swim workout? If you are like most people, you probably make up your swim workout when you are already in the pool! Maybe you know vaguely that you need to swim 2000m today or 4 x 800m… but that’s about it. This lack of structured workout and […]

Filed Under: Swim Tagged With: swim training, swim workout, triathlon swim training

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