Tag: ironman training
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The Economy of Endurance Sports: Why Efficiency Matters
What Is Economy in Endurance Sports? Economy is a critical performance metric in endurance sports like triathlon, and running. It represents the energy cost of maintaining a specific exercise intensity. In simple terms, economy measures how efficiently an athlete can perform a task with minimal energy expenditure. The less energy you use at a given…
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4 Ways to Improve Your Swim this Off Season
As a professional triathlon coach, I’ve seen countless athletes struggle with the swim portion of their race. This is not uncommon for those who start swimming later in life. Whether you’re training for an Ironman or looking to improve your performance in shorter distance triathlons, improving your swim and becoming more “swim fit” can lead…
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Mastering Triathletes’ Brick Workouts: A Complete Guide
A seasoned triathlete may know that training requires a little more than just mastering swim, bike, run as individual disciplines. We need to think of triathlon as one sport instead of 3 sports. It’s important that you become efficient in the swim and bike, so you can still have a strong run.
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The Gait Cycle for ‘Serious’ Runners
In our last article we took you through the importance of running efficiency and how. This time we will take you through the gait cycle and how your form can be improved. The running gait cycle can be simplified into two main phases: the swing and stance phases with several sub-phases within each of these.…
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Is there a right way to run?
Is there a right way to run? Is it chi? Or is it the pose method? Should we land on our mid foot, heel, or forefoot? There is no perfect way to run, however, like swimming there are some common biomechanical techniques we can learn to develop. The first thing we learn to do when…
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First Time IRONMAN® Triathlon Top Tips Part 3
You have signed up to your first IRONMAN®, found a great coach and have loads of questions but who to ask? You may think some of your questions are a bit embarrassing but as Albert Einstein said, “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow but the important thing is not to stop questioning”.…
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First Time IRONMAN® Triathlon Top Tips Part 2
You have signed up to your first IRONMAN®, found a great coach and have loads of questions but who to ask? You may think some of your questions are a bit embarrassing but as Albert Einstein said, “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow but the important thing is not to stop questioning”.…
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First Time IRONMAN® Triathlon Top Tips Part 1
You have signed up to your first IRONMAN®, found a great coach and have loads of questions but who to ask? You may think some of your questions are a bit embarrassing but as Albert Einstein said, “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow but the important thing is not to stop questioning”.…
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5 Tips for Faster Transitions – The Underrated Fourth Discipline
BY WILLIAM RITTER 5 tips to faster Transitions – The underrated 4th discipline of Triathlon. Ask just about any triathlon coach who tells their athletes they need to practice transitions, and they will likely tell you of the funny looks they get or times when they just get flatly ignored. Those funny looks would likely change…