Your stomach and gut works a little like a sieve. If you pour water into it, the water passes straight through without any problems. If you pour a milkshake into…

‘It was just a training race, it wasn’t really important…’ How many times have I heard that phrase thrown about?  Using races as ‘training’ or to ‘monitor progress’ can be…

Objectives:

The testing is one of the most important aspects of the plan and understanding the results gives you real insight into your personal strengths and weaknesses. When you complete your…

Another weekend of Ironman racing and luckily we had the weather! If you raced Ironman UK, I hope you achieved the result you’d hoped for (probably not, we’re never happy)….

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…

In the last blog, we introduced the topic of ‘stroke count’ versus ‘stroke rate’, how the 2 things differ and how they impact your swimming. You should probably read it…

The video below discusses how to measure your training intensity and also the difference between ‘intensity’ and ‘output’. You should always try to use ‘intensity’ as your gauge and more…