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...
The Primary muscles for cycling and how to train them
Each sport has its own set of primary muscles responsible for the majority of work of the sports specific motion. These primary muscles,...
The Five Most Common Running Injuries & how to fix them
This time of year is often when injuries start to niggle. But it’s also a good time to sort them out. Here we take a look at the most...
The Key sessions for Criterium Racing
A crit or criterium, is a fast-paced ever changing road bike race. Most crits are held on a closed circuit and contain short but fast...
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
Protein for the endurance athlete
There seems to be a constant debate among scientists, coaches and athletes about how to fuel correctly for endurance activities. As we...
The sleep cycle: Why sleep is critical to recovery & performance
With all the focus on nutrition as the key component of recovery from training and racing, it’s easy to forget that the quantity and...
The Best Strength Exercises for Endurance
When you think about the best strength and conditioning exercises for Swimming, cycling or running, you first examine what's needed....
The Triathlete's Guide to Carbohydrates
Bagels, gels, fruit, pasta—here's everything you need to know about this important fuel source. Put simply, carbohydrates are starches...
6 Things you need to know - What is Lactate Acid
What is lactate? Lactate threshold is a term that coaches and riders often use, however it’s often unclear it means. We’ll use this...
6 Things you need to know - Training Zones.
What are training zones? We’ve all heard people referring to which ‘zones’ they are training or racing in – but what does this actually...
6 Things you need to know - The Sweet Spot
What is the Sweetspot in training? After my article on base training a number of people got in touch to ask if it would simply be more...
