Periodisation… Well, Kind Of!

Training Phase Progression And Evolution At JET Coaching

Q1 – Jan-March —> Race Specific 2 Q2 – April-June —> Post Season and Prep Phase [WE ARE HERE] Q3 – July-Sept —> Build Phase into Phitness Phase Q4 – Oct-Dec —> Phitness Phase and Race Specifc 1

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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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Efficiency…

Efficiency is the key to endurance sport performance…

It is about the trade off between your pace and the energy cost required to produce that pace.

Your best way to improve this is by being able to go faster at lower effort / heart rate / power.

There are technical and ...

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Five Point Checklist For All Athletes For Prep Phase / Training Through Global Pandemic…

1. Building General Resilience (Hint: Staple Ride and Runs) – easy, enjoyable, technical, ‘aerobic’, tissue endurance

2. Improving Overall Strength (Hint: Swim Strength, Pilates, General Strength Sessions) – improve range of motion, tissue health, global strength

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Are You A Virtual Athlete Or A Real One?

Many athletes around the globe have been forced indoors of late… and rightly so in many cases. But, getting outside in fresh air, amongst nature and in the sunshine is good for us. Good for us as human beings, let alone as ‘athletes’.

So embrace it and take opportunities where yo ...

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#JETOakleyBdayChallenge17

Monster hashtag. Monster weekend.

Our latest JET challenge was the best executed challenge yet.

JET Coaching’s assistant head coach and CEO in waiting, Oakley Edwards, turned ONE on the 17th May… as such, our challenge was in honour of this milestone. It took place on the w ...

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Let off some steam…?

As Coaches we will often hear that an athlete ‘needs to let off some steam’…

This usually means that they have had a few days off training, or have underperformed, or, they have had a stressful week/few days in other areas of life.

Their answer… go hard and try to †...

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Simplicity & Fundamentals

There is a lot of information available to us all about swim, bike and run as well as many other areas of triathlon, performance, strength and recovery.

What we always try to do is keep things SIMPLE, which hopefully creates sustainability in programming, coaching and execution.

Thi ...

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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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JET Coaching Scholarship 2020 Update

We are happy to announce that we have awarded our 2020 scholarships to two worthy recipients.

Not only are they people that we want in our JET Community but they are also both on the front line during the current global pandemic, so it’s nice to be able to support them.

We want to ...

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