Enhancing Endurance Performance: Optimising Your Blood for Success
As endurance athletes, our blood is critical to our performance. Well, it is pretty critical to everyone for obvious reasons but, some of the most...
The Impact of Detraining on Endurance Athletes: What Really Happens When You Take a Break
In all sports there is quite obviously, going to be a loss of form and performance when athletes take a break from training or practice....
Training Alone
‘Total Lockdown’, another strange new term that we are all learning in 2020. We thought that the most significant impact for sports people would be...
Summer Indoor Training
Summer in South Africa is in full swing, but the holidays are over and, for most of us, we are back to the nine-to-five. For...
Ocean Swimming
There are a number of big triathlons in South Arica where the swim is in the ocean. These are often the most daunting events for...
Open Water Swiming
We are well into the beginning of the triathlon season. There are also numerous open water swim events leading up to Midmar Mile. So now...
Fartlek Running Part 3
In this, the final in our series of quality sessions for running, we complete the set with some more race-specific sessions, which will train us...
Bunch Riding
On this site we have been touting the numerous benefits of indoor cycle training on a bike like the Concept 2 Bike Erg. There is...
Ingane Yami challenge
One Rugby Legend, Two Adventure Athletes – One Epic Charity Challenge Stefan Terblanche, CEO of the South African Rugby Legends Association (SARLA) may have retired from...
Fartlek Running Part 2
In our first article dealing with some speed-play on our runs, we discussed sessions that were more free and used the terrain and route to...