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Half Ironman Training and Goal Setting. Are you stepping up to 70.3? How to set your goals then smash them!

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Half Ironman Training and Goal Setting. Are you stepping up to 70.3? How to set your goals then smash them!

Half Ironman training is very specific and needs to be suitably tailored. 70.3 triathlon is many triathlete’s favourite distance. It is certainly a great challenge, maintains awesome fitness and keeps you on your toes in terms of training, nutrition, sleep, productivity and effectiveness. If you have a plan that is well executed, it will allow […]

Filed Under: Triathlon Training Tagged With: 70.3, 70.3 training, beginner triathlon training program, Half Ironman, ironman training, swimbikerun training, triathlon training

7 Best Recovery Strategies Every Triathlete Needs To Know To Enhance Performance

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7 Best Recovery Strategies Every Triathlete Needs To Know To Enhance Performance

Recovery strategies are not often discussed between triathletes. We tend to discuss more fun things like mileage, watts and  data. However speeding up recovery is the key to maximising performance whether you are an amateur or a pro. As a triathlete, you are generally training 5-6 days a week and constantly trying to juggle the demands […]

Filed Under: Triathlon Training Tagged With: 70.3 tri, beginner triathlon, beginner triathlon training program, quick recovery, recovery strategies, triathlon training

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

Ironman Triathlon Training: How Few Hours Can I Train (without killing myself or my relationships)?

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Ironman Triathlon Training: How Few Hours Can I Train (without killing myself or my relationships)?

Ironman triathlon training: this is a phrase that conjures up either much respect or much dread! It was a joke in our triathlon club that Ironman triathletes were either single- or about to be! There is generally a major increase in training hours once you consider doing 70.3 and especially a full Ironman triathlon training. But […]

Filed Under: Triathlon Training Tagged With: 70.3 training, how to train for Ironman, improve triathlon performance, ironman training, ironman triathlon, triathlon, triathlon training

How to Taper for Triathlon for maximal gain

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How to Taper for Triathlon for maximal gain

Learning how to taper for triathlon effectively is a critical skill to learn in triathlon training. Many things in life seem to be a paradox! As triathlete, you have been told for months that the way to get faster and stronger is to push your body harder, faster and out of its comfort zone. Then […]

Filed Under: Triathlon Training Tagged With: cycling taper, improve triathlon, improve triathlon performance, marathon taper, taper for performance, triathlon taper, triathlon training

The best triathlon training plan can get destroyed by this threat all around us…

By Sam 4 Comments

The best triathlon training plan can get destroyed by this threat all around us…

You have an awesome triathlon training plan. You have followed it to the letter and are seeing great gains in triathlon performance. But biggest threat to an awesome performance is not punctures on the bike leg, it is not running out of your favourite gel en route, it is not even your secret “lack of stretching” […]

Filed Under: Triathlon Training Tagged With: bike faster, improve triathlon performance, run faster, running injuries, swim faster, tri training, triathlon training

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