Swim Session – Give it a go!

Session of the Week

Try this swim session for aerobic development and strength endurance. It is designed to have you swimming strong in the back half of the session. Simple and Effective.

Focus on quality of movement throughout the session, especially in the back end when you are st ...

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Ironman Training…

Ironman Cairns is 5 weeks away… Training focus should be consistency including logging necessary training volume to adequately prepare for the specific rigors of race day.

With this comes fatigue, and tiredness, often a blur of the two!

My advices is as follows:

Firstl ...

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Something is better than nothing

Sometimes something is better than nothing for age group triathletes…

It is easy to fall into the trap of not starting a session if we are not going to be able to fulfill the session exactly as prescribed, or making it shorter than the original plan.

But, consistency is key. S ...

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Training Whilst Travelling

Consistency is key, right? So try not to let travel affect this…

I always advise athletes to pack training gear when travelling… whether it be camping, for work, on holiday. If you have it packed it’s an option!

Next, I advise to look at schedule for the week/month ...

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Menstrual Cycle And Training

Female Triathletes…

Have you considered the effect of your hormones and your menstrual cycle on your training and performance?

You should.

There is more and more info available and more and more research out there on hormonal cycles, which can help you improve performan ...

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Swimming For Triathlon

Swim training… it’s not just for the swim leg!

‘the swim leg is the shortest part of the race, it doesn’t matter so much…’

Your swim training and therefore swim fitness has much more effect on your triathlon performance than you might think… ...

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Double Run Days

Double run days are a great way to get a ‘long run’ into your week

Arguably you can get greater time, distance and, importantly, quality into your running. Note; by quality I don’t mean intensity

For example on Thursday’s I have been completing double runs instead of one cir ...

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Cycling For Triathletes…

Firstly: Get comfy on your bike! For triathletes that means being comfortable in TT position for extended periods of time. We should be more comfortable on the TT bars than on the base bars sitting up – we need to be able to sit in this position for hours at a time.

Second tip is to ...

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Recovery

Recovery is when we absorb the training load. Recovery is where we get fitter, stronger, faster.

Fitness + freshness = best performance. Training harder, and training more will mean nothing without adequate rest, recovery and adaptation!

My top 3 recovery tips:

1. You cannot ...

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Maintaining a Healthy Relationship with Training

Train often. Train long. But don’t out train your love of training

– Jamie Edwards (adapted from Julie’s quote below!)

Some tips to avoid burnout: – have a clear, meaningful goal – know your WHY – allow for rest, recovery days/phases – think ...

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