Training
Treadmill Quickness – Sustained Speed Training
Here’s a winter workout that will improve your quickness, give you a VO2max stimulus and enhance your running economy at all speeds.
Rejuvenation and Recovery
The tough part for the self-coached athlete (and the self-coached coach!) is developing a recovery strategy. My No. 1 piece of advice to you in this regard is Schedule Your Recovery.
Advanced Triathlon Training – Big Week Training
“Crash training appeals to almost everybody but appropriate for almost nobody.”
Beast Yourself
What makes the athletes that survive at the top different is they learn from their mistakes and take steps to avoid repeating them.
Basic Limiters
Early winter is the time of year to consider some of the more basic and often ignored qualities that go together to make up the qualities that might eventually limit your performance in your specific event.
Periodization Simplified
I am currently reading what I consider to be one of the best books on training theory and practice that I have ever put my hands on.
Fast Responders versus Slow Responders: The Health Factor
While we can’t do a whole lot to change our genetics, there is another factor that dramatically affects how we respond to training over which we have much greater control.
Functional Flexibility – Part III: Exercises to Improve Your Swim Flexibility
I want to follow up on my last article on flexibility for swimming with a few practical exercises that you can use to improve shoulder mobility and improve your swim stroke.
Functional Flexibility – Part II: The Swim Catch
I want to go into a little more depth on probably the most important area of the stroke where flexibility limitations can come into play — the catch.
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.
