Training

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Do Nothing to Get Faster

Regular breaks are crucial in endurance training, aiding in recovery and improving performance, despite the initial fitness loss.

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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.

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The Secret To Becoming a Better Triathlete

Sorry to bust your bubble but there is no quick fix to becoming a better triathlete. However there's some things that everyone can learn about.

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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.

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How to Improve your Running Technique

Here are some quick tips to assist in making your running just that little better.

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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).

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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.

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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