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 »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 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 ...
Read More »Endurance Training Zones Explained
When training for endurance, training sessions must have a specific purpose. Simply going out and swimming, biking, or running with no planned duration or intensity might bring some improvements at first, but it will quickly lead to a plateau and ...
Read More »Stuck on a Treadmill? Here’s A Workout–Video Post
It seems that many of our readers are stuck inside this week because of the crazy snow and winter weather. Here’s a good video on using your time stuck indoors to the best of your training ability. Remember, this guys ...
Read More »TYR Lycra Square Leg Swim Shorts-Update on Final Review
Terrible shorts. Completely worn out after less than half a season. Do no buy
Read More »Medicine Ball Workouts
Here’s another workout from Shin Ohtake. We really liked his video on forefoot running earlier this week, so we thought we’d send this one along to you too. If you’ve ever worked with a medicine ball, you might have realized ...
Read More »Dave Scott on Post Race Fueling
On Tuesday, we shared Dave Scott’s tips and calculations for proper race and training nutrition. After your race, it’s essential to replace glycogen stores and simple sugars. According to Dave, it’s essential to consume proper nutrients within 15 to 45 minutes. Just ...
Read More »Dave Scott Video on Training and Racing Fueling
Many beginner triathletes simply load up on liquids, gels, and maybe a nutrition bar or two during their race. While this might be doable in a sprint or even an olympic distance race, if you’re looking at a longer race ...
Read More »TYR Lyrca Square Leg Swim Shorts–Final Review
Please check out our update on these shorts. Three weeks ago, we did our initial review of the TYR Square Leg Swim Shorts. Before we get into our final review, we’ll recap a bit. We picked these shorts based largely ...
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