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The Essential Guide to Cycling in Winter
This comprehensive guide provides cyclists with strategies to optimize their training during the winter, emphasising the physiological demands and the importance of structured training plans.
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Quick Tip: Why sticking to a program is the key to adaptation in triathlon training
Drawing parallels between Kenyan runners' early foundation and effective triathlon training, this article emphasizes the significance of consistent base-building, patience, and structured periodization for optimum athletic progression.
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Victim or Victor? It’s a choice
Delving deep into the psyche of Ironman athletes, this article underscores how true endurance stems from psychological tenacity and the ability to transcend pain, not just physical preparation.
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Quick Tip: How to Run Off the Bike
Emphasising the synergy between cycling and running in triathlons, this article reveals how optimising bike strength directly enhances your ability to maintain speed during fatigued runs.
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Quick Tip: Bike pacing for your run and how to do it
Transformative power of optimal bike training on running performance, offering insights on tools and strategies to achieve your best brick session.
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Heart Rate Monitoring Can Show If You’re Training Is Working
Exercise physiologists Plews and Prof explain how heart rate variability (HRV) can guide and optimize athletes' training effectiveness and adaptation.
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Top 10 Reasons Exercise Is Bad For You
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Power Meter Cycle Training for Triathletes
Professional cyclist shares how using a power meter for training, measuring FTP and power output, enables effective training amidst time constraints.
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Swimming Training for Triathlon: Is it That important?
Triathlon is a sum of three component parts. The swim leg, generally speaking, comprises the least of the 3 time components that make up the sport. A swim leg can range from the 750 metres of a sprint distance race, to the 3.8 km Ironman event. Many variables come
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Saving your Knees from the Woodchopper
How many times have you been riding with your training partners or behind someone and notice their knees popping out at the top of the stroke? In fact we’ve all seen the woodchopper pedal stroke, a common problem, easily identified and when resolved with a systematic approach correct mechanics
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The Next Revolution in Swim Training
For many years the analysis of performance in swimming has been tedious and manual. Cycling training has been transformed by power meters and power training, Running has been greatly impacted by GPS to provide pacing information. Accelerometers popular in consumer devices such as iPhone and Wii games are now being
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Using Psychology to Improve your Race Day Performance
Dive into the pivotal role of mental strength in athletic performance, emphasising the need to live in the present moment for optimal results.