The Olympics. For many sports the pinnacle of achievement, with many athletes aspiring and working their whole careers just to qualify and participate. Being held every four years does not always make that easy, especially in sports where athletic peaks are short-lived. This was made even more complicated when...
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...
"Motivation is not a tank that needs to be filled. It is a fuel that needs to be ignited." We don't need to find motivation, we can create it with discipline and determination. Lockdown has been tough on everybody for so many reasons. As endurance athletes we have had to...
Apologies for the 'gym vernacular' but I think it fits here. As triathletes we focus on freestyle or front-crawl because it is the fastest and most efficient way for us to get through the swim and onto dry land again. Most triathletes tend not to come from a swimming...
