It Is Easy To Get Fit

It is easy to get an athlete fit… well, if you know what you are doing anyway! But fitness will seldom be the limiter for race day performance.

Cardiovascular fitness can be built over a matter of weeks and is compounded over months and years. Heading into a race, long course in part ...

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Absorption Of Training Load

Improvement comes not from how much training you DO but from how much training you can ABSORB.

Which is why we must consider global stress and listen to our bodies… not just consider training related stress in isolation.

As always think big picture and long term

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Swimming Tools For Triathletes

A triathletes swimming tool box!

Swimming (and cycling and running) is about ‘taking more good strokes’

Used correctly each piece of equipment can help us do this. Which is why you’ll see our athletes with lots of equipment for their swim sessions.

Some will get differ ...

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Random vs Rigid

Do you know where you’re going?

Random approaches get random results. Athletes may ‘follow a program’, train daily and enjoy their training but the random combination of training sessions, race schedules and approach to nutrition, hydration, strength, recovery and even overall philos ...

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Choose Your Path

Choose your path.

A few things as we charge in to 2021…

1. Consider creating simple, sustainable habits – not big, grand changes that you’ll have forgotten about in two weeks

2. Think about the rhythm and intents of training sessions, weeks, blocks and phases &# ...

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The Ultimate Performance Hack…

Best hack ever… guaranteed to improve performance! And a timely reminder as we head into the ‘holiday’ season.

Keep hacking away at positive habits (doesn’t have to be drastic or in the form of unsustainable increases) and hack away at the unhelpful habits!

#beyourbest ...

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Improving Your Running…

Here is a great podcast / resource for all of us.

It summarises (and adds to!) the JET approach to running… for both runners and triathletes.

You will notice some common themes and references to:

– value of multisport for run performance – building overall r ...

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The best recovery tool out there… and it is free!

Sleep… the number one recovery tool.

Some good tips and insights here… not just for athletic performance, but for life performance!

Article includes: – chronotypes – blue light – recovery breaks – pre and post sleep routines

Original artic ...

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Massage – The benefits for endurance athletes

Massage – Like anything, consistency will yield best results!

The benefits are far reaching so here is a quick over view of some of them and a reminder to book REGULAR massages for best results. They should be used as a preventative approach, rather than a reactive / treatment modali ...

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Swimming Case Studies

We look at a couple of case studies which address a couple of topics. Namely, the volume (or lack there of) ‘needed’ to excel in endurance sport and the value of consistency.

Quality and effectiveness of training stimulus should be the measure of success… Not simply how & ...

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