In modern times, where we spend a large portion of our daily lives sitting, our primary focus when it comes to mobility, flexibility and stability should be around the hips and lower back. Unrestricted movement through the hips, but also a strong and stable pelvis region are essential for...
Taper Week is the week that all athletes say that they dream about, the week they can’t wait for, but in reality, it is probably the most mentally tough week that we have to endure. Yes, I used the word endure to describe how we deal with this week...
With Spring about to be sprung, there will be more and more rain about in the coming weeks. Most of us will have spent a lot of our training time indoors during the cold, dark days of Winter and we will all be super-motivated to be testing that hard-earned...
In the last in our series of swim drills we are going to talk about the most all-encompassing of the body-position / rotation drills, the Rhythm Drill. I like to think of this drill as a kind of top-up. After some extensive work on improving and refining our horizontal...
Cycling and CrossFit could not be more different as far as sports go. As are the athletes that take part in each. That said though, we can all appreciate impressive performances and admire athletes who have reached the pinnacle of their sport. A few years ago we did an...
Of the three disciplines in triathlon, the swim is the most technical and difficult to master for those starting out later in life, as many of us are. The swim is also the discipline with the most anxiety attached. Fortunately, improving in the swim is much less about time...
Planning our training for a season is like looking at a picture on our computer. At first, we look at the whole picture, taking in all the bigger details and the overall impression of the image. Then we begin to zoom in. We start looking at finer and more...
Of the three disciplines in Triathlon, the swim is by far the most technical. Because water is so much denser than air, our body position and every little action we take with our arms, legs and torso has a much bigger impact on our overall efficiency than they do...
I must admit that I was a slow adopter of Strava. At first I saw it as just another social media app, but aimed at endurance sports people. Having enough trouble keeping up with the more mainstream social media apps, I didn’t think it was for me. Then I...
Most of us use a heart rate monitor to control our training output and to ensure we are making the most of the time we have to run. Aiming our sessions at the correct levels ensures that we are training optimally and will ensure that we continue to progress...
