As discussed in How To Plan Your Triathlon or Endurance Sport Season triathlon training is typically focused around a important or “A” race. Less than a decade ago triathlons and other endurance events didn’t happen that often and usually required ...
Read More »How To Fix Your Endurance Stomach Problems
When your pushing through a hard workout or race, the last thing you want to worry about is having an upset stomach. It’s an unfortunate fact that many endurance athletes (including high-level pros) still face depilating stomach issues that have ...
Read More »What Is a “Good” Triathlon Training Program?
As explained in How To Plan Your Triathlon or Endurance Sport Season, if you don’t have a training plan to follow, you might as well plan to not meet your performance goals. A training plan is a must for athletes ...
Read More »How to Fuel Like a Champion Year-Round
As discussed in How To Plan Your Triathlon or Endurance Sport Season, triathlon training should follow a periodized approach where workouts get more race-like as your endurance event gets closer. Just as training is periodized in endurance athletes, nutrition should be periodized ...
Read More »10 Swim Workouts That Make Swimming Fun
We’ve already discussed some swim workouts, like the top five for time crunched triathletes. If you have a little more time, here are some great workouts that will make your swim workout more fun. “Fast-Medium-Fast” (1400) Warm-up: 6x 50m Increasing ...
Read More »Top Ten Treadmill Workouts to Increase Run Speed
We’ve discussed a number of indoor workouts before, like these indoor bike workouts and this one on building a home gym for less than $100. Treadmill Hurricane (35min) Warm-up: 10min w/ 4x 30 sec pick-ups of increased speed Main Set: 10x30sec ...
Read More »How To Fuel Your Energy During a Triathlon
Properly fueling (taking in calories) before and after a training session or race can be fairly simple if done correctly, but what about fueling during a race? In the following I will explain exactly how to fuel for endurance performance. ...
Read More »How To Bike Faster: A Simplistic Approach
We’ve already explained how to run faster, but seeing as how over 50% of almost all triathlons are spent on the bike it’s time we learn how to increase triathlon cycling performance. In order to be a better cyclist it’s ...
Read More »How To Plan Endurance Strength Training In Your Season
As mentioned in Top 5 Triathlon Strength Workouts, strength training is an extremely important but overlooked aspect of endurance training among athletes. The reason being, if strength training is done correctly, it can recruit more (not bigger) muscle fibers which ...
Read More »How To Become a Beast Athlete with Tabata Training
Unlike many crossfit athletes would like us to believe, tabata training has been around since 1996 when Professor Izumi Tabata conducted a study which concluded that 20 seconds of hard exercise followed by 10 seconds of rest then repeated several ...
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