16 July 2026 Be A Better Swimmer With Zero Effort If you want to get in your coach’s Good Books and set the trend in your swimming lane, while at the same time getting much more from your swim sessions,…more…
28 June 2026 Don’t Blur Your Boundaries If we don’t make a conscious effort to separate our hard intervals from the easy, and our rest from the work, we are not making the most of our workouts….more…
6 October 2021 Planning your race season: Periodization Part 2. How does each pre-season, event, training week and day evolve to being mapped-out and put into action? Periodization. Here’s Part 2 of my advice on Periodization. I’ll use a construction…more…
29 September 2021 Planning your race season: Periodization Part 1. Don’t dive blindly into a training programme until you know how the calendar progresses, and what each Phase is for. As we tentatively get excited about Post-Lockdown events starting up…more…
5 April 2021 Start Line Anxiety The start of a triathlon somehow seems designed to cause anxiety in all those who have failed to prepare correctly. Pre-Competition Nerves are something everyone in sports has experienced: disrupted…more…
7 January 2021 Stretching. Or not. If you’ve known me for a while, you would have often heard me wax lyrical about the lack of current science behind stretching before and after exercise. First of all, a couple…more…
30 December 2020 Run Efficiency Part 3: Posture Let’s start with a little re-cap on Parts 1 and 2 before the final piece of the puzzle: Test your cadence, and increase your stroke rate to around 90 foot…more…
10 November 2020 Run Efficiency Part 2: Breathing Pretty important as a human just being. But if your breathing is all out of whack while running, you can feel uncomfortable, incompetent and demotivated. We’re not going to talk…more…
3 November 2020 Run Efficiency Part 1: Cadence Does anyone else hear that word in a French accent? If you’re a self-proclaimed nerd like me, you will get excited by the fact that this Middle English word was…more…
6 October 2020 Different types of stress. Have you ever heard one of those people who say: “I just don’t get stressed”? You may even be one yourself… About a decade ago, when my training volume increased…more…
