Don’t over-think it, you’re just doing less exercise to allow your body to recover Keep the same routine but just do less, for example, if you always swim on Thursday…
Author: marc laithwaite
Stroke Rate V Stroke Count – What you need to know…
What is Stroke Count? Stroke count is the number of strokes you take each length of the pool. You count both your left and your right arm strokes and most…
Open water swimming? Being consciously competent can wear you down…
When I learned to swim, I’d be first to the local pool in the morning and as I walked through the changing area, I’d have only one thought in my…
Understanding Intensity & Output
Monitoring your training intensity and workload is an art form and we have lots of toys which can help us to achieve it successfully. A lot of runners have GPS…
There’s more to training than MAX
As we head into winter training, most triathletes are planning their schedules and hoping to reach spring in a strong position. This will be your year!! This will be the…
Trying to improve your swim? Focus on the critical things…
Triathlon is a relatively new sport and a consequence, there’s a huge number of people aged 30+ who have never swam competitively and find themselves now destined to a life…
Anaerobic Speed Reserve (ASR)
The Anaerobic Speed Reserve (ASR) has been used for many years in sports science and endurance coaching, specifically for running. As usual, it tends to be over-complicated and over-scientific, but…
Before you worry about going faster, stop slowing down….
Another weekend of triathlon racing with some big events taking place and luckily, we even had the weather! As the season is drawing to a close, it’s time to start…
There’s a perfect plan, then there’s a person who needs to do it…
Writing training plans and coaching are 2 separate things. Writing a plan is putting together a series of workouts, to best achieve a goal and coaching is working with people…
Use the force… but what if you can’t?
The key to using sports science testing to assess and to monitor progress, is to keep it simple, avoid the smoke and mirrors bullshit and pick out the important bits….