One of the biggest challenges I have found as a participant of various sports is following the end of the road before I turn down the side streets. What do I mean?
There are as the old saying goes many routes to the same destination. If you point north and keep driving everyone ends up somewhere [...]
I’ve come across a lot of press releases,pro interviews and anecdotes on this topic
Story goes likes this………..hey you multisport athletes- combined time wins not who’s the fastest at each discipline- if you want to win at multisport you’ve got to train for it right so stop focusing on one sport at a time and then [...]
When a large glassy set of swells roll into a point break surfers suddenly down tools, scramble to the beach and make the most of it when its around.
When sentiment towards a company improves they scramble to secure cheaper equity funds on the back of a rising share price
When the fish are around the trawler [...]
We have included here some useful references for starting your training with a power meter (stuff we get asked all the time). All of these are exerpts from “Training and Racing With A Power Meter , Hunter/Allen 2nd Ed”
1. Working out what your functional threshold power- here is a simple way of testing
http://www.3jc.com.au/FTPTest.jpg
2. Benchmarks for [...]
Think about this for a moment……….the vast majority of age group endurance athletes go through the last 2 hours of an event toward the bottom of their aerobic range
why? why does someone who has an aerobic range of 120-160 bpm chug around an IM marathon at 130bpm
answer- the legs have given out well before an [...]
“I have riders doing longer TTs and long training rides with a ceiling power output, in teaching them to TT well I want them to not exeed a certain figure based on their FTP”
I absolutely cringe when I read comments like this, as it goes against basic exercise training principles.
I’m all for putting caps on [...]
This is a subject that has occupied my mind a lot of late. Triathletes spend a LOT of time trying to analyse the techniques of the best, the equipment of the best, the training of the best. Why?
Its one of the things that sometimes bothers me most about some of the coaching faternity as well
Lets [...]
One of the better interviews I have listened to for a long time was an series of interviews with the old dog coach Brett Sutton
Here’s the link to the two podcasts on IMTalk (if you can handle the raspy kiwi voice of Bevan James Eyles)
http://www.imtalk.me/home/2010/12/13/imtalk-episode-240-brett-sutton-part-1.html
http://www.imtalk.me/home/2010/12/20/imtalk-episode-241-brett-sutton-part-2.html
Our key take outs/draft notes as follows:
-Training around the world is [...]
How often does your state of mind alter according to the weather outside, who is going to turn up, how well you slept the night before etc…..? I wonder how many people take this into consideration when they decide to execute a pre-planned training session written over a week earlier?
Very rarely if ever is this [...]
http://www.trekbikes.com/au/en/trek_life/news/article/2481/2011/01/06/trek_inks_title_sponsorship_of_worlds_best_cycling_team/
(Waterloo, WI) – Trek Bicycle announced today, along with Luxembourg-based Leopard True Racing, its co-title sponsorship of the formerly unnamed Luxembourg Pro Cycling Project, creating the LEOPARD TREK cycling team. Featuring podium regulars Frank and Andy Schleck, as well as classics king Fabian Cancellara, LEOPARD TREK will race team-issued Trek Madone and Speed Concept bicycles [...]
We all deal with time restraints. We all have to deal with boredom in our training at times. Many of us travel for work or live in “sub optimal” training environments.
I often get asked what are the “bang for buck” sessions, the ones I would do if I only had 30 mins to an hour
Interestingly [...]
Are you the guy who goes to the supermarket and stocks up with a weeks food or are you someone that does a little trip to the grocer every night on the way home? Do you like to read 10 chapters of a book in a sitting or the whole lot?
Do you try to run [...]
I’ve recently had opportunity to review this bike courtesy of Ashley Ritchie at Sonic Cycles Springwood QLD
This bike is as well thought out for a triathlete as any bike I’ve seen in the last 5 years. The simple but effective things which make so much sense are:
-Built in nutrition box that does not flop around
-Built [...]
Why does it matter?
I never have really paid much attention to this concept, basically because my weight over the years has vary rarely changed. I would always be about 80kg in the off season and then 78kg going into a race.
Back in 2008 in the days when I owned a power meter and my Functional Threshold [...]
G’day guys,
There are lots and lots of different ways to taper for a race and I’ve tried my share of a few and tried a few out on the people I coach. I’ve used a 5 week taper, 3 week taper and 10 day taper and even a reverse taper.
I’ve also had what I thought was the perfect [...]
I get this question quite a bit
“How do I go about improving my bike in the offseason?”
Answer
Between now and your next IM you have a few choices
1. Raise FTP
2. Develop your strength
3. Develop your sustainable power
4. Develop your endurance.
That’s four areas you can focus on and the area you need to focus will depend on [...]
I recently, bought the latest issue of Inside Triathlon, it’s the first tri-magazine I have bought in a long time. What caught my attention was the article on Lance Armstrong and how Chris Carmichael will prepare Lance for Kona. The article also asks some other coaches to give their personal insights as though they were [...]
Why it is important to know this term?
Your Functional Threshold Heart Rate (FTHR) or your Functional Threshold Power (FTP) are essential numbers for all athletes and is something that everyone should know. That includes sprint athletes right up to and including Ironman athletes. Knowing your FTHR is the first step in being able to set [...]
If you are new at it this is a good concise outline
http://home.trainingpeaks.com/power411.aspx
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