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...
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...
How to use a power meter to find your ideal race-day effort.
After the training is done and you’ve successfully arrived at the starting line, one of the biggest determinants of success is the...
Offset the imbalances and weaknesses caused by indoor cycling with these exercises.
Spending Time On The Trainer? Do These Strength And Flexibility Exercises Indoor cycling workouts are inevitable for most cyclists living...
2017 Triathlon Bike Preview
The triathlon season has come and gone, and no doubt you drooled over a few bikes in T1 this year. Wondering what’s in store for 2017?...
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 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,...
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....
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...
