Travel Tips for Triathletes
Don’t Let Travel Stress Ruin Your Race From crowded airports to sitting on planes for hours, we all know that traveling is stressful and...
Six Signs That Your Injury Is Nerve Pain
One challenge I’ve consistently come across over the years in coaching is the vast number of possible sources of pain and dysfunction. A...
Women are the better endurance athlete
Women are the better endurance athlete… In 2015, Helene Whitaker told the gathering at the start of the Dragon’s Back Race “If you’re...
Performance Assessment Tests for Multi-sport Athletes
Swimming Performance Assessment Finally, here are two swimming field tests. Note that these tests do not involve functional threshold...
Building Aerobic Capacity: The Myths vs. The Science
Building Aerobic Capacity: The Myths vs. The Science The Physiology of Aerobic and Anaerobic Fitness The word ”aerobics” is used to...
Recovery products to help you gain the advantage
We all know recovery is critical to any athletes training plan and subsequent race day success. We should all take the necessary steps to...
Pool Etiquette...
It seems that every sport has its own code of etiquette that even the newcomers are supposed to know from day one. Seems unfair, doesn't...
How to know when you are a Triathlete....
Here we have a tick list for you to run through for knowing when you are a 'real' Triathlete... How many can you tick? You failed Biology...
Embrace the pain
Imagine two runners, Janet and Jill or Bob and Bill, who have identical physical running ability, that is, equal VO2 max values, lactate...
Qualifying for an IRONMAN World Championship
The IRONMAN and IRONMAN 70.3 World Championships have come and gone and you may be thinking about how to make it to either the Big Island...
Training Camp for 2017 season
Six days of swim, bike and run technique and performance coaching by Duncan Grainge focused on helping you become the best triathlete you...
Visualisation is the secret to letting out your speed
Understanding and mastering mental fitness can be the key to unlocking your hard-earned physical fitness. Leaving mental fitness by the...
Triathlon Christmas Gift Guide
Wondering what to get the Athlete in your family, perhaps you want to treat yourself, we have The ultimate Christmas gift guide for you,...
An in depth look at Muscle Fibres
Understanding the why of training and the science behind your workouts is important, even if you’re not writing your own training. First,...
6 Things you need to know - Habits of Elite swimmers
It will come as no surprise that to Elite level swimmers share a number of common habits, below we run through what they are and how they mi
