Articles that are of interest and benefit for people training for triathlons
Before spending thousands chasing marginal gains, make sure you’re getting the most from the bike you already own. Build your fitness, improve your aero position, develop bike-handling skills, practise smart pacing and dial in your fuelling. Earn your speed through training first, then let equipment upgrades enhance your performance.
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Build your VO₂ max with this time-effective 45-minute smart-trainer workout. Jesper Medhus’ Time Effective VO₂ Max Intervals -2 combines a progressive warm-up with two sets of short Level V efforts, challenging you to repeatedly produce high-intensity power while recovering quickly and maintaining consistent quality across all ten hard efforts.
View More Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: Jesper Medhus’ Time Effective VO2 Max Intervals -2
Develop better pace control with this Build 1–3 swim workout. Progress from steady to hard to maximum effort across repeated 100m intervals, then reset and go again. Choose from three distances designed to develop speed, pacing awareness and the ability to change gears while maintaining good freestyle technique.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Build 1–3 × 100m
Learn how to balance swimming, cycling and running when preparing for your first triathlon. Discover why the three disciplines shouldn’t be treated as separate programmes, how to manage intensity and recovery, where to focus your training, and how to progressively bring swim, bike and run together for race day.
View More How to Balance Swimming, Cycling and Running for Your First Triathlon
Smooth cycling isn’t just about producing more power. Developing a controlled pedal stroke, stable upper body and adaptable cadence can improve efficiency and help you maintain good technique as fatigue builds. Discover how indoor cycling provides the perfect environment to practise smoothness and become a stronger, more capable cyclist.
View More Ride Smooth, Not Just Hard: Why Better Pedalling Makes You a Better Cyclist
Don’t wait until you feel hungry to fuel during your Ironman 70.3. Learn why fuelling early matters, how to develop a consistent race-day nutrition strategy, and why practising your plan during training can help maintain energy, avoid playing catch-up, and set you up for a stronger half marathon run.
View More Fuel Early, Not When You Feel Like It: Ironman 70.3 Fuelling
Brick training does more than prepare your legs for running off the bike. It builds race-day confidence through familiarity, pacing practice and transition skills. Learn how purposeful brick sessions can help Sprint and Olympic triathletes remove uncertainty, trust their preparation and arrive at T2 knowing exactly what comes next.
View More How Brick Training Builds Race-Day Confidence
Brick sessions help Sprint and Olympic-distance triathletes prepare for the unique bike-to-run transition. Learn why your brick run doesn’t need to be long, how to practise pacing and transition skills, when to introduce bricks into your programme, and why purposeful sessions can prepare you for a stronger race-day performance.
View More Do You Really Need Brick Sessions for Sprint or Olympic Triathlon?
Build endurance and versatility with the FLJUGA Reverse Brick. Run first with controlled Level III efforts before transitioning directly onto the bike for a sustained Level III ride. This 1hr 17min session challenges your ability to maintain quality across disciplines while developing pacing, aerobic fitness and fatigue resistance for triathlon.
View More Monday’s Brick: FLJUGA Reverse Brick
Swimming every session at the same pace can limit your progress. Discover why triathletes benefit from purposeful variety in the pool, including endurance, technique, tempo, threshold and speed work. Learn how developing different swimming gears can improve your fitness, efficiency and confidence while preparing you for the demands of race day.
View More Stop Swimming Every Session at the Same Pace