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How to have your best Ironman swim.
For many the swim portion of an Ironman is by far the most daunting piece of the challenge. A 3800m swim in open water is a challenge for even the most seasoned…
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Adapting your annual plan
In past articles we have covered how to structure and plan a season. This year best laid plans have been hit with a wave of uncertainty. Many sports governing bodies have postponed…
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Competing and Training through the Corona Pandemic
2020 will be a historic year for sport. It is perhaps the first time where there has been a blanket postponement on racing and competition across sport. Certainly this is the first…
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Preparing for a new season
As we draw closer to summer, the competition for many sports is now in sight. It’s an exciting time as race schedules are now becoming established and we can now start working…
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How to Cycle Fast!
Cycling has become a very popular pastime in the last decade. Sportive events have acted as introductions to group cycling extremely well. For some, sportives are a challenge, others an opportunity to…
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When training hard doesn’t work
Increasing fitness is a cyclical process of applying stress, adapting and progressing. Progressive overload is used in training to provide effective stimuli over weeks and months to increase our abilities. Progression can…
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What to do after your big competition is over
Months of training and focus go into preparation for a big competition. The event itself can come and go in the blink of an eye. Maybe it was a success or maybe…
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Marginal Gains for Amateur Athletes.
The concept of marginal gains has been very popular in recent years with many professional teams citing the concept as their magic bullet. Marginal gains is the theory where the accumulation of…
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It’s not always about speed, It’s about not slowing down!
Time and time again we hear athletes training to be faster. They use intense efforts to push on the top pace they can reach. They look for a new fastest kilometer run…
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Last minute training
Cramming for a competition is extremely common. In many cases, races creep up on people and the training they planned to do never quite gets done. For others the preparation was done…
