See the rest of this week's newsletter here Q: When you train for an half/full ironman, once a week you are supposed to do a long run. How exactly will you approach it? By and large, a weekly long run is part of every endurance athletes training....
You work hard in the pool 2 - 3 times a week. You buy all the latest swim toys, take stroke correction classes and analyse YouTube swim technique videos all for the sake of faster swim split. But many age groupers have not wised up...
Q. Can you suggest what & when we should be eating pre/post training sessions? Especially as many sessions are over dinner time. Good question. Many athletes with regular (long) office hours find themselves in this situation and we do our best advise them. Pre – Training 1)...
- Consistency is key! Triathlon is an endurance sport and an endurance base gets build over time. Putting in the hours consistently over months, years, decades is what it takes to build a solid endurance base. - Train your weakest discipline! It’s often a vicious circle; Athletes don’t...
Q. How to approach an half marathon 3weeks before a 70.3? I would like to use it as a training. Good question. At this point in your preparation, your long bike and runs should already be race- specific, meaning each time you head out for one...
See the rest of this week's newsletter here At this stage of preparation, with the months of hard work behind you and a mere 2 weeks until the big day, you should be at your fittest. You’ve done the late night track sessions, given up a...
Q: For someone who can only train 10hrs/wk (betw 8-12) for a 70.3, with no particular strength/weakness - all swim bike run are equally average, how would you allocate the training hours and at what intensity? Typical age groupers that need to balance work, family and...
We like to mix it up at MetaSport - With 10 coached sessions a week - we've covered all bases to develop the key aspects of your endurance game - Strength/ Threshold and Endurance. Between the roster of professional coaches conducting awesome sessions and the...
10 Marathon Tips - Shem Leong 1. Taper- A well structured taper is essential to run a good one on race day. It gives your legs a chance to fully rest and “soak up” the many kilometres that have been put into them in training. It is NOT...
See the rest of this weeks's newsletter here Consistency and Repetition are the big secrets to all the top triathletes out there. If you were looking for a magic formula or a short cut to success I’m afraid to tell you there is none. But that’s what I...
