Training Leveraging Periodisation in Triathlon Training: A Strategic Approach Periodisation offers triathletes a structured training blueprint, ensuring peak performance across swimming, cycling, and running By Grant Giles • 1 min read
Training Is Ventilation A Useful Marker For Use In Within-Session Intensity Regulation? Our Recent Durability Study Suggests It Is Research on how prolonged exercise affects physiological thresholds, finding that a steady ventilation rate could provide real-time intensity regulation and training load monitoring for athletes. By Daniel Plews • 6 min read
Training Optimising Triathlon Training: The Fusion of Tech and Human Effort Explore how Grant's fusion of technology with tailored triathlon training is reshaping athlete performance and well-being. By Grant Giles • 2 min read
Training Seeking the Ideal Triathlon Coach: A Comprehensive Guide Elevate your triathlon journey by asking the right questions to find the perfect coach tailored to your athletic aspirations and needs. By Grant Giles • 3 min read
Training Decoding Power Profiles for Maximum Impact Power profiling, a field-based method that quantifies the relationship between maximum sustainable power output and time, provides an alternative to laboratory-based assessments for athletes, aiding in training, performance monitoring and potentially assessing 'durability' in endurance sports. By Daniel Plews • 8 min read
Training Unveiling the Potential: New Research on Fat Oxidation at Higher Exercise Intensities Exploring the impact of low-carbohydrate diets on substrate oxidation rates during exercise, Noakes and Volek highlight surprising increases in fat oxidation rates, even at high intensities, challenging traditional understandings of metabolic fuel use. By Daniel Plews • 6 min read
Training Creating Mental Checklists for Improved Race Execution Making a plan for calming your mind, grounding yourself, using mantras and cue words will help you execute your best possible race when the pressure is on. By Grant Giles • 2 min read
Training The Psychology of Goal Setting for Triathletes: SMART Goals and Beyond Applying psychological principles like visualisation, unity with goals, and connecting to core values allows triathletes to harness the full motivational power of setting bold, achievement-oriented goals. By Grant Giles • 2 min read
Training Harnessing the Power of Power Meters: A Guide for Triathletes Harness the precision of power meters to elevate your triathlon training and performance, optimising every pedal stroke. By Karl Hayes • 3 min read
Training Setting Up Your Triathlon Transition Area: A Comprehensive Checklist Prepare for your triathlon with confidence using our comprehensive guide to efficiently set up your transition area. By Tim Reed • 3 min read
Training The Power of Mental and Visualisation Techniques for Triathletes: Boosting Performance for Race Day Success By combining visualisation, goal setting, and mental preparedness, triathletes can boost their race-day performance, tackle challenges effectively, and strengthen their confidence. By Grant Giles • 2 min read
Training The Key to Faster Cycling in Triathlons is Building a Solid Base Seasoned triathletes know that going long in the base-building phase with a mix of long easy rides and some high intensity work is key to improving cycling speed and endurance for triathlons. By Karl Hayes • 6 min read
Training Lactate for Endurance Training: What is it? Lactate is a metabolic product produced during the metabolism of carbohydrates that can be used as a fuel source for muscles. By Daniel Plews • 7 min read
Training The 3 Simple Aspects of Freestyle for Long-Term Improvement To swim great freestyle, minimise drag by assuming a streamlined body posture with level alignment and lack of wiggling. Keep it simple and practice the Ball Float, Human Paddle, and Over-Under Freestyle exercises. By Andrew Sheaff • 4 min read
Training The Importance of Using Lactate to Determine Exercise Intensity Using lactate to prescribe exercise intensity can be a valuable tool for endurance athletes to regulate the intensity of their training sessions, particularly during long sessions. By Daniel Plews • 7 min read
Training Maximising Athlete Durability: A Key Factor in Ironman Success Understanding and managing durability, or the decline in the first threshold of moderate-to-heavy intensity during prolonged exercise, is an important factor in successful Ironman training. By Daniel Plews • 6 min read
Photo: Maarten van den Heuvel Training Maintaining Fitness During the Offseason: Tips for Enjoying Downtime The off-season is a period of rest and recovery after a major event or the end of the racing season, during which athletes can mentally and physically freshen up while minimising loss of training adaptations. By Daniel Plews • 6 min read
Training The Optimal Way to Use Swimming Drills Combining drills with full stroke freestyle provides the best opportunity to improve that transfers to competitive performance. We’ll explore combining drills and when to use them. By Andrew Sheaff • 4 min read
Training The Key Ingredients for Triathlon Bike Success Planning, power, rest, adaptation, consistency, training, intake, conditioning, and energy are the critical elements triathletes need to focus on to achieve top bike performance. By Karl Hayes • 3 min read
Training Thinking of Racing an Off-Road Triathlon? Are you thinking of doing an off-road triathlon? Maybe you love mountain bike riding and doing the odd trail run. Then a Xterra race might be just the thing for you. By Shawn Smith • 5 min read
Training How to Improve your Running Technique Here are some quick tips to assist in making your running just that little better. By Karl Hayes • 1 min read
Training The maximum metabolic steady-state: Definition, measurement, and application Definition, measurement and application of the second physiological threshold or the maximum metabolic steady-state (MMSS). By Daniel Plews • 10 min read
Training Eating Before your Workout – Carbohydrate vs Protein vs Fasted What's the best time and what to eat before a workout to maximise your session. By Daniel Plews • 4 min read
Training Training intensity distributions: From Polarized to Pyramidal models, specificity is key in Long Distance Triathlon In the Ironman community, there is a lot of talk about training intensity distribution. In this blog, I am going to cover some of the basics around training intensity distribution, which is one of the key concepts you need to navigate in building up to your race. What is training intensity distribut By Daniel Plews • 6 min read
