What are thresholds?
The term threshold has become extremely popular amongst endurance athletes. Runners, cyclists and triathletes all like to discuss their threshold. Thresholds can be used to…
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Strength and conditioning for Triathletes
Strength and conditioning has always been a difficult piece of the triathlon puzzle. The old myth that endurance athletes don’t need to strength train is…
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Dealing with sports injuries
Injuries are a part of sport. Some individuals will experience them a lot more often than others and the severity of injuries will vary. Injuries…
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Getting the most out of Open Water Swim Training
As most swimming pools are closed for the next few months we are limited in our ability to train our swim. Luckily the weather is…
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Zwift as a training tool
Zwift has become an extremely popular online platform for both cyclists and triathletes. It provides an exceptional opportunity to perform rides for training, racing and…
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Delayed onset muscle soreness.
We’ve had a number of questions around DOMs lately so this article is a crash course in DOMs. What is DOMS? DOMs stands for Delayed…
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Training from home
There are situations where we don’t have access to training facilities. Holiday periods are the most common but Global Pandemics and severe weather events are…
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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…
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The Best Recovery Method of them all. Sleep!
Sleep is often an underappreciated recovery tool. Athletes constantly look for things which will give the edge in their performance. There are hundreds of recovery…
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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…
