Seven Tips From A Pro – Tip Seven!

Seven Tips From A Pro.

Professional triathlete and coach, Kevin Collington, with his seventh and final tip in this series.

It is a good one for ALL amateurs and pros to remember… training and triathlon should be a part of your life, not your whole life, if it is going to hel ...

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S I M P L I C I T Y

Simplicity.

Simple is sustainable.

Sustainable allow for consistency.

Consistency is key.

In sport and in life.

Think of the simple things you can do EVERY day that make you better.

Here are the broad areas we suggest you start.

Sleep Fuel appropri ...

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Where should your focus be?

Where should the focus be?

Training hard and getting fit is the easy part, or at least it should be.

What the majority miss is the supporting habits that ensure performance progression and consistency.

This includes:

– Sleep and other recovery habits – Foll ...

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Seven Tips From A Pro – Tip Two!

Tip #2 from pro triathlete Kevin Collington.

Sleep. The number one recovery tool in your belt.

You can increase nightly sleep by sticking to a routine and having a good setup. Pick a “shut down” time at night. For me it’s 7pm – no more work, only dinner and ...

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Navigating Adversity… Navigating Life!

Those who have successfully navigated this unique and challenging time in our lives are the ones that either:

– already trained for the intrinsic benefits it brings (physical and mental health, creativity, sense of accomplishment etc)

– have used training to provide rout ...

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Real Performance ‘Hacks’

A list of things that have enough evidence to say it is true:

– Move your body regularly (train) – Avoid processed food and eat when hungry – Stay hydrated – Don’t smoke – Don’t drink much, if at all – Get plenty of sleep

The simplicity is wha ...

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Recovery Is Critical

You don’t get faster by training harder… you get faster by recovering better.

– Sleep – (Post Session) Fueling – Hydration – Appropriate intensity distribution – Body management

All come before fancy gadgets and ‘recovery’ products. Get the ...

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Is MORE the answer?

More training is not necessarily the answer. For some, that is what they need to do… it is simple. But for the majority this is not what is missing in the quest to optimise athletic development.

To prescribe ‘more’ only works if the individual is able to absorb and adapt to the s ...

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Recovery

The fundamentals:

– Sleep – Fueling following EVERY training session – ‘Clean Outs’ – Cyclical training phases

The next layer:

– Easy / Supportive training sessions – Appropriate warming up and cooling down – Body management inc ...

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Taking responsibility

‘Recognise what you need to do and then f****** do it… it’s as simple as that’ – Conor McGregor

Keep it simple. But do it.

It may be:

– sleeping more – doing strength work – eating after training sessions – consuming more fruit and ve ...

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