Fat adaption is critical for athletes and non-athletes looking for sustained health including physical, intellectual and social vitality. Carbs are not bad, just misunderstood. Here are a few hints to get you started.
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Fat adaption is critical for athletes and non-athletes looking for sustained health including physical, intellectual and social vitality. Carbs are not bad, just misunderstood. Read More
I provide totally individualised coaching customised around your lifestyle, current physical condition and goals. A structured approach which is totally pieced together around you. I provide a structured process using proven training practices and techniques learnt through years of experience and through TrainingPeaks and IRONMAN universities under the guidance of thelikes of Joe Friel, Mark Allen, Paula Newby-Fraser and Bob Babbitt. Read More
A rollup of stress based planning. Rough but an insight into the science behind programs.
Endurance athletes get muscular endurance, anaerobic and aerobic fitness in the field through aerobic, threshold and sprint interval training.
Time in the gym needs to be focused on force development, functional strength and core stability. Force to build muscular capacity as a foundation for power. Functional strength to improve bio-mechanical stability and efficiency, and core stability to support effective posture and gait especially when fatigued. Read More
Aerobic foundation is forms a baseline. It is necessary to complete the distance at a reasonable pace without a deterioration in health. Strength and force is a simple process: stress, recover, repeat. Biomechanic efficiency is the secret source to true performance.
Efficiency is the key
Ironman and 70.3 worlds qualification requires a run efficiency of 1.5 and bike efficiency of 1.7, numbers below will see you out of contention of scraping for roll down spots.
Efficiency is HR / Pace. Any poor biomechanics reduce efficiency, functional weakness reduces efficiency, unconscious incompetence reduces efficiency, a weak mindset reduces efficiency.
You can’t get to 1.5 and 1.7 by plugging away at a combination of volume and intensity alone, biomechanical efficiency has to be a focus too.
It’s about competency
There best way identify areas where you are unconsciously incompetent through specialist coach assistance or video analysis. This will place you with conscious incompetence. With the aid of coaching and focus you can move to conscious competence and then with more focus practice to unconscious competence and improved efficiency.
Get a technique coach, better still a specialist per discipline. Take a 6 to 8 week period every year to get pure on technique and balance functional strength, get to unconscious competence ready for the lead up to the next season.
Simple, effective, more a mental exercise than hard physical application.
A well planned off season can be the best investment for the next season. During the lead-up to your season “A” race the chances are you have focused on aerobic endurance and threshold training to increase durability. Family time and exercise variability has probably suffered, right? Off-season regeneration is critical for sustained improvement. Read More
After signing up, follow this checklist to setup tools for monitoring and training. Once this is done the processes becomes simple allowing me to track progress accurately from afar. Read More
When we decide to remove a food element from our nutrition regime due to medical advice or by personal choice we usually immediately seek a substitute. For some odd reason our human psyche hate to let go of things we have grown used to, even if we know they are bad for us.
