2XU Sandringham Results – Jan 2021

Racing is well and truly back on the calendar. We had racers from the JET Community toe the start line in Tassie, WA and here in VIC.

Let’s have a look at the 2XU Sandringham DUATHLON results. As always there were PBS, podiums and personal triumphs! We also saw the debut of our fresh new ...

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Training Should Be Fun!

Training can and should be fun. Improvement, consistency and success are reliant on sustainable habits.

Training can and should be sustainable. Week on week. Month on month. Year on year.

So it should be varied, fun, specific, relevant and enjoyable.

Working hard is a preq ...

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Sunday Special – Key Race Session

Sunday Special!

Yesterday marked 28 days to go until Geelong 70.3 so some of the #JETpack headed to eastern beach for a little swim-bike-run on location. Others did theirs solo.

The theme was ‘some learnings and some confidence’

Well done all, your efforts will be rewarde ...

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Come Up A Level: Effectiveness Vs Accumulation

Come up a level…

Your quality and EFFECTIVENESS of your training stimulus should be the measure of success.

Not simply how much (or little) you do.

Think about that as plan your training week, month, year…

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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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Ready… Go!

2020 was a little outside the norm but presented a great opportunity to adapt, grow and set up for success in future years. As a whole the JET community did this very well.

Enjoy this time of year – use it as a time to reflect, reset and recharge but also to double down on consisten ...

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