Saturday Swim Session: Broken 400’s
Broken 400’s can help you develop endurance capacity and will help you develop sustained speed whilst swimming.
Friday Fartlek Run: 2,000m/1,600m/1,200m/800m/400m
This session is great at developing your ability to sustain a maximal effort.
Wednesday Wind Trainer Session: 5/4/3/2/1min Hills
This session will enhance your leg strength and climbing ability.
How to Measure Your Training
Technology is evolving at a great pace. Heart Rate (HR) monitors are getting more features and are linking in with other training tools that can pick up GPS signals, foot pods that count the number of foot strikes and a…
Saturday Swim Session: Drills & Technique
This session is focused on enhancing your technique and get that improved prior to doing more fitness orientated sessions later in the season.
Friday Fartlek Run: Ross Creek Intervals
This session I did a number of times when I was living in Dunedin and running the fastest I have ever run (sub 34 minutes for 10km). I used to do this session running in one of my favourite locations…
Exercise Associated Muscle Cramp (EAMC)
There are a number of causes of cramp, but the most likely that we as runners, cyclist and swimmers are going to be dealing with is the phenomenon known as Exercise Associated Muscle Cramp (EAMC). There is often assumed to be…
Wednesday Wind Trainer Session: 4x 8min Threshold Intervals 2min RI
This session will enhance your ability to tolerate and clear lactic acid. This is a really great session to develop your race fitness and allows you to tolerate lactic acid. The short recovery, allows a drop in lactic acid, but not…
Saturday Swim Session: 200’s 100’s 50’s
This weeks Saturday Swim Sessions utilise the T-Time we determined a couple of weeks ago. Read more about T-Times here.
Friday Fartlek Run: Mona Fartlek
This session provides you with a regular and consistent recovery period after each easily attainable effort period. It can be done on the athletics track, the road or even off road.
- 3 weeks ago
#dontgiveup #onwardsandupwards some apt advice in @gozwift @gozwiftausnz for tonight’s ride through the French country side. 🚴♂️ #coachray #qwikkiwi - 4 weeks ago
A beautiful sunny ☀️ day to go for 11km on the #westcoastwildernesstrail my @garminnz told me my performance was improving - 1 month ago
Good session on @gozwift this evening. First time up #boxhill and that false summit is a killer 🤣 🚴♂️ @gozwiftausnz - 4 weeks ago
Some more quality time on @gozwift @gozwiftausnz whilst finishing watching @superleaguetriathlon #amsterdam 🚴♂️🏃♂️🏊♂️ #coachray #QwikKiwi - 1 week ago
Squeezed in a run today. I was grateful for the wind to keep me cool, but on the last 2 - 2 weeks ago
Joined the Surf Life Saving Club for some training tonight. Great to be pushed with some intensity in the session. - 4 weeks ago
Lazy 20km through Paris on @gozwift @gozwiftausnz this evening 🗼🚴♂️ #QwikKiwi #coachray - 2 weeks ago
Great view of an Austrian sunset tonight in Innsbruck in @gozwift @gozwiftausnz then a view of the Alps in the - 2 weeks ago
@matt_reido challenged me to a 1.5 mile TT to see how much I can hurt no one on the road - 4 weeks ago
I noticed a few trees in blossom during this morning's "not a parkrun run". How did the run feel? Good
8 week Spin Fitness Training Plan
This is a great training plan to build your cycling fitness over 8 weeks. Whether you are a road cyclist, mountain biker, Zwift or Peloton user or wanting to use a spin bike for general fitness.
Whether you want to improve your fitness during COVID lockdown or the Southern Hemisphere winter; the 8 week Spin Fitness Training Plans will help you take your fitness level to new heights.
There are a number of options for these Training Plans within the training spectrum depending on how long and the frequency of your normally rides.
Options based on how long you currently ride for:
- less than 30 minutes,
- 30-40 minutes,
- 40-50 minutes,
- 50-60 minutes, or
- more than an hour.
As well as options for riding 3, 4, 5 or in some cases 6 times per week, to optimise your fitness over the next 8 weeks.
After you've completed this 8 week block you can adapt to a more specific plan to target a specific event or specific goal.