What should I eat before training? A common question from athletes.

One of the toughest challenges faced by athletes is determining what to consume during exercise. There is so much information out there....

Every now and again you come across something that really blows your mind. The Reflexive Performance Reset (RPR) is a system of...

The Aerobic Threshold (AeT) is an important ceiling for endurance athletes. It marks the uppermost exercise limit before when energy is domi

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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....

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...