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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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” […]
