Riding at or around your Threshold will bring up both your ability to sustain high-intensity effort (as well as your suffering). This session is great for triathletes and road cyclists. It can also be beneficial for mountain bikers, especially for events that are about an hour in duration, such as a 40km Time Trial or the bike leg of an Olympic Distance Triathlon.
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Stamina and Endurance are essential for a number of reasons. If you are a triathlete or open water swimmer this is useful for the duration of your event. But more so if you are a Master’s Swimmer targeting a shorter pool-based event is that provides the base fitness on which to build your speed as part of a periodised swimming plan. This session is great for master’s swimmers.
View More Saturday Swim Session – Stamina Is The Key
Spending time running at threshold is great for improving your ability to sustain a higher running pace and is of benefit to all runners. Although designed for use with a Stryd Power Meter this workout can also be effectively done without one.
View More Friday Fartlek Run: Stryd’s Over the Limit A
Every week I have a football game on Saturdays but this week I had to play 2 as my sisters team needed a extra player, doing this meant that both days of the weekend where taken which is when my long trainings are planned for, this makes it difficult to try fit in as many as possible to get the best results out of it.
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A brick session is a great way to develop your body for the rigours of transitioning from one discipline to the next. This session is excellent for Sprint distance triathletes.
View More Monday Brick: Phil Mosley’s Sprint Distance Speed Brick
All cyclists need leg strength, it is after all what allows us to pedal with a large amount of force and which is a key component to developing power. This workout is great at developing this leg strength through an accumulation of time at low cadence and moderate to high workload. This is interspaced with high intensity efforts, just to keep you on your toes.
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The greater your efficiency in the water, the faster you can swim for less effort. Including swimming drills into your training regularly will enhance your technique and form. It is great for master’s swimmers as well as open water swimmers and triathletes.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Drills Make The Swimming World Go Round (Especially Your Arms)
Spending time running at the threshold and above develops your ability to clear lactic acid qwikly. It also provides a good hard training stimulus in the final couple of weeks prior to a major race. This is a perfect session for runners and triathletes competing in 5km events.
View More Friday Fartlek Run – Runner’s World 5km Threshold Miles
How to maintain your motivation over winter. A series of tips so you can optimise your training and come into spring fitter and faster than previous sessions.
View More Coach Ray’s Chat [Ep 03] – Maintaining Motivation Over Winter
It’s been 2 weeks back into consistent training and I can already feel myself getting back into a routine. My body is feeling much better…
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