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Racing

Go Fast When the Race is Slow – A Case Study

A bit of a departure from my series on flexibility this week to indulge one of my guilty pleasures: Power File Analysis!

Injury Prevention and Treatment

Functional Flexibility

The early part of the season is the perfect time to work on all of those “little extras” that tend to fall by the wayside once the hours of SBRing start to creep up.

Training

Training Camp Benchmarks

I thought it might be apt to write a short piece on some of the key workouts that I like to include in my athletes’ plans during the course of a big week.

Nutrition Training

Fueling a Training Camp

With EC’s recent Tucson camp fresh in my mind I thought it might be a good time to chat about one of the less considered elements in training camp planning: nutrition.

Planning

Season Planning – Part IV: Determining Training Volume and Intensity

In this final installment, I’m going to bring the concepts of phasing your season and planning training stress together and show how these elements go into determining the actual training volume and intensity that we plan for each week.

Planning

Season Planning – Part III: Determining Load Structure

What does chronic training load (CTL) mean in terms of actual daily load?

Planning

Season Planning – Part II: Setting Phases, Objectives and Checkpoints

Once we know the athlete’s starting point and end destination, we can begin to identify some checkpoints along the way that let the coach and the athlete know they are on the right course.

Planning

Season Planning – Part I: Realistic Goal Setting

I figured it apt to begin at the beginning and look at how to go about undertaking that crucial first step of setting performance goals for next season.

Swim

Are You a “Skilled” Swimmer? Part II

With the onset of winter, many of you will be returning to the ever-frustrating mission of trying to make up some more ground on those elusive folk who perpetually lead you out of the water –- the ex-swimmers.

Injury Prevention and Treatment

Improving Your Recover-Ability

One of my main interests over the last year has been teasing out the impact of both fitness and fatigue on performance.