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Nov 19
3 min

FatMax, What is it and how do you train it?

Fat combustion is the bottleneck of endurance performance in sports like running and triathlon. You can create strategies to increase your e

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Philip Hayes

Nov 10
5 min

What's Important?

Today one of the biggest issues athletes face is time. Maintaining a balance between family, work and training can be challenging. With limi

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Philip Hayes

Nov 6
5 min

Make Zwift Sessions More Interesting

Nowhere to hide: use indoor trainer sessions can be a great way to boost your bike performance.

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Philip Hayes

Jun 20
5 min

Nutrition: Racing and Training

One of the toughest challenges faced by athletes is determining what to consume during exercise. Selecting a nutrition strategy tends to ...

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Philip Hayes

Jun 20
2 min

Nutrition: Some Basics

Nutritional requirements during training and racing tend to be a lot different. Determining what works for you tends to be a little bit o...

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Philip Hayes

Jun 16
2 min

FTP Testing Tips

FTP testing is one of if not the most common benchmarks in cycling. It usually involves a 20 to 30min time trial and then you take a % of...

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Philip Hayes

Jun 6
3 min

Zone 2 Training: What's the Big Deal?

Why Zone 2? Nearly all athletes training towards a specific goal follow some form of structured training. Training is spread out using ea...

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The Female Athlete and the Menstrual Cycle

Philip Hayes

Apr 15
4 min

The Female Athlete and the Menstrual Cycle

This article is a brief overview of the female menstrual cycle and endurance sports. In this piece the aim is to discuss the stages of th...

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Philip Hayes

Mar 8
3 min

Them Zones, Them Zones Need.......

Training zones are widely used by most athletes to control training intensity. Sometimes we take them in blind faith and follow a trainin...

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Philip Hayes

Mar 1
3 min

What happens when we train

Training zones are designed to help athletes control the intensity of training. What we sometimes lose sight of is the bodies physiologic...

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Training zones what are they and why do we use them?

Philip Hayes

Feb 27
3 min

Training zones what are they and why do we use them?

Training zones are widely used. They are used to determine and guide training intensities in order to illicit training adaptions in the body

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Philip Hayes

Nov 20, 2019
4 min

The Off Season: Time for Reflection

It’s the end of the season, particularly in the Northern Hemisphere. It’s a time to take a bit of a break, recharge the batteries and a r...

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Philip Hayes

Sep 10, 2019
2 min

Watch Setup: Power

SETTING UP YOUR WATCH Now that you have the basic concepts when using power (see here) it’s time to set up your watch for training and ra...

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BUT I BURN OVER 9000 CALS: REPLENISHMENT VS. REPLACEMENT

Philip Hayes

Jun 14, 2019
3 min

BUT I BURN OVER 9000 CALS: REPLENISHMENT VS. REPLACEMENT

Nutrition and endurance sports can be a little over complicated at times. Magic nutritional strategies/formulas are created trying to off...

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FUEL YOUR TRAINING, FUEL YOUR PERFORMANCE.

Philip Hayes

Jun 14, 2019
4 min

FUEL YOUR TRAINING, FUEL YOUR PERFORMANCE.

Nutrition tends to be one of the most discussed topics when it comes to triathlon. It also tends to be over thought and over complicated....

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DETERMINE YOUR CARBOHYDRATE COMBUSTION RATE AND FUEL YOUR PERFORMANCE

Philip Hayes

Jun 14, 2019
3 min

DETERMINE YOUR CARBOHYDRATE COMBUSTION RATE AND FUEL YOUR PERFORMANCE

I recently spent some time with an athlete who is looking to get back into training after some down time in the off season. Coming off th...

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Philip Hayes

Jun 14, 2019
2 min

WHAT DRIVES FTP?

To really understand the origin of FTP and performance you could delve into the metabolic biochemistry of what happens within the body du...

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