Managing ‘Stress’

A thought on stress…

In a nutshell, stress is stress – no matter whether it’s from exercise or from lifestyle, and the more stress you’re placing on yourself from your lifestyle, the less stress you’ll be able to place on yourself from exercise. – Ben Greenfield

Age grou ...

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Tips For Racing An Extreme Triathlon

Tips for racing an Xtreme Tri… Eg. Australian Alpine Ascent

https://www.eliteenergy.com.au/ev…/australian-alpine-ascent/

I recently participated in the AAA (a long course triathlon with includes over 4000m of elevation across bike and run) and upon reflection have come up with s ...

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Australian Alpine Ascent Race Report – Coach Jamie

Do AAA they said, it will be fun they said!

The Australian Alpine Ascent is held by Elite Energy Events at Lake Jindabyne, NSW. It is Australia’s version of an Xtreme Triathlon… a style of racing made famous by the Isklar Norseman Xtreme Triathlon held in the Norwegian Alps every year. ...

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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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Training With A Cold

It happens, so what should you do?

– Don’t panic, it’s normal and it’s ok

– Advise your coach that you are not 100% so they can advise you

– Reduce training load in terms of intensity and duration

– Perhaps try switching your mindset from ...

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Return On Investment

Why is a Triathlon Coach talking about ROI?

We all invest time, effort and money into our chosen sport so we need to think about maximising this like we would with any other investment we make in life…

How?

– Train smart – Recover hard – Be consistent ...

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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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Intent

Train with intent…

What do I mean?

Age groupers must learn to maximise the training time they have available… This means understanding the purpose of every session and the details of the session and perform them with intent and purpose.

Train with purpose and inte ...

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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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