I recently read ‘The Time-Crunched Triathlete’ by Chris Carmichael. Chris Carmichael (CM) is a former professional cyclist and was Lance Armstrong’s personal coach during his seven years as Tour de France champion. The aim of the book is to guide self-coached athletes with limited time to ‘race winning’ fitness in a maximum of 8 hours … Continued
In a recent study, looking at the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) by triathletes competing in an Ironman triathlon, a massive 59.9% of athletes reported comsuming NSAIDs in the previous three months. 25.5% consumed NSAIDs the day before the race, 17.9% immediately before the race and 47.4% during the race. The reasons for taking … Continued
Visualisation is a powerful tool and can be used to develop new skills or refine exsisting ones. Before this week’s technique swim session on Sunday have a look at this video of Jono Van Hazel (Australian Olympic swimmer) on the Swim Types website. Watch it over and over! During the swim session when we ask … Continued
Thanks to our growing team of coaches I managed to capture some video of a number of you swimming on Sunday. This week we will work on a few of the ‘swimming faults’ that I observed and discussed with Karl and Scott. Here is a list of a few of the faults and the effect … Continued
Our first session for the New Year was a good one. It is great to see everyone as enthusiastic as ever about improving their fitness through the sport of triathlon and also testing the limits of their fitness by signing up for more challenging events later in the year. By the way, the girls lead … Continued
Welcome back everyone! I hope you have had an enjoyable break over the Xmas New Year period. As of this week we are back to our regular training sessions. Run at Well Street Common tonight at 7pm and our fitness and technique development swim and run at London Fields Lido on Sunday at 8am. The … Continued
There was an impromptu club session on Wednesday this week for those lucky enough to have the day off. I finally got my ‘camera mounted on a mop’ out and videoed a number of our clubbies swimming at the Lido. It was a very interesting session with a range of swimming backgrounds from absolute beginner … Continued
Believe it or not there is still ice on the paths in Well Street Common plus it is a bank holiday so instead of running multiple laps of a small common in the dark I would encourage you to get out, get some vitamin D from the sun and try an alternative run session tomorrow. … Continued
Well Street Common is still looking very much frozen and with temperatures unlikely to rise significantly in the next 24 hours I can’t see the situation changing. So tomorrow’s run session is cancelled. Thank you to all those who braved the elements on Sunday for our last session of the year. It was a great … Continued
So we completed a couple of time trials last Sunday. I will email you the results by the end of the week. What you can do is use the results to help make your own swim sessions more structured so you get the most out of every session. CSS is an acronym for Critical Swim … Continued