Category: Training Methodology

Coach Ray’s Chat Ep 008 – How Coach Ray Progresses Your Workouts?

Coach Ray discusses the benefits of training at low intensity.

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Top 10 Articles of 2023

Throughout the year a number of articles have had popular times. But over the entire year, the reoccuring theme with popular articles relate to periodisation. Back in 2020/2021 I wrote a series of articles looking at the periodisation principles utilised by various coaches and academics, with six of the articles relating to periodisation from this era of articles still popular. However, the top two articles related to intensity.

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Uploading metrics Into TrainingPeaks

To give your coach a greater insight into your fatigue levels and to assist to monitor your recovery, loading daily metrics such as Resting HR, HRV, Sleep quality and quantity into TrainingPeaks can be very valuable. Especially when things don’t go smoothly in your training, having this data to further analyse can help shed light on the situation.

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Coach Ray’s Chat Ep 007 – Why Does Coach Ray Get Me To Train So Slowly

Coach Ray discusses the benefits of training at low intensity.

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Coach Ray’s Chat Ep 06 – What to Do When Your Training Gets Disrupted

What to Do When Your Training Gets Disrupted
Coach Ray discuss what to do when your training gets disrupted. Regardless of why the training got disrupted.

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Ask Coach Ray – How Come My Long Runs and Long Rides are So Long?

Long sessions, greater than race distance/duration provides the body with a training stimulus that develops the aerobic system. It is key that the aerobic system is optimsied for success in endurance events like an Olympic distance triathlon or ¼ Ironman.

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What to Do When Your Training Gets Disrupted

Coach Ray’s Chat Ep 05 – What to Do When Your Training Gets Disrupted

What to Do When Your Training Gets Disrupted Coach Ray discuss what to do when your trianing gets disrupted. Regardless of why the training got disrupted.

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VO2 Max

Coach Ray’s Chat Ep 04 – VO2 Max: What Is It? And Why Does It Matter?

VO2 Max: What is it? And why does it matter? Coach Ray discuss the benefits of VO2 Max training and includes some suggested workouts.

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Maintain Motivation Over Winter

Coach Ray’s Chat [Ep 03] – Maintaining Motivation Over Winter

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.

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