Given the ever-changing situation, Tri Training Harder Coaches have come together to decide on a collective direction with the company’s training protocol as of the 22nd May 2020. This protocol will be under review as the situation changes. However, this should help athletes and coaches with a direction on what is deemed safe practice by other peers.
Read MoreRead on below as Coach Trevor discusses how you can build up your cadence ranges and improving your cycling without changing your training routine.
Read MoreThere has been a lot of talk about training to protect your immunity and how to ensure you keep yourself motivated. However, what is the advice should you have experienced COVID-19? Read on to find out an update from British Athletics.
Read MoreIn this article Coach Alan looks into some theories around motivation and looks into what athletes may learn about themselves during this lockdown period.
Read MoreIn this article coached athlete Heather Mayer writes about her personal experience over the last few weeks with regards to social media and her reflections on her and potentially our sporting ‘why’. Heather has been working in some form or another with Tri Training Harder for a number of years on Training Camps before she began working with Coach Alan a couple of years ago. Since then, she regularly stands on AG podiums, rides the legs of most of her male contemporaries and has been to the 70.3 World Championships as well. Read on to hear her very honest reflections on the impact of COVID-19 to her self-confidence and ability. Hear how she turns this around to rise above the noise and become truer to her self.
Read MoreHere, Coach Philip reflects on the current industry situation and how coaches are doing their part as always, for the athletes. The industry is currently confused and in some instances desperate, but we need to rise above this to ensure the athlete’s health always comes first.
Read MoreHere Coach Philip discusses how viewing lockdowns, limits on training stresses and intensities as control sense is only going to lead to pushing back against the rules and trying to do what you have always done. Instead, view these new boundaries as a challenge and an opportunity, and suddenly, you can see that you are learning and developing far quicker as an athlete than ever before. Yes, there is a change in the landscape; yes, there is a change in the rules; yes, there is a change in the attitude we need to adopt. However, there is no reason to change the approach of deliberate and diligent practice seeking better versions of ourselves.
Read MoreAthletes often schedule their training, their races, their training holidays…well, pretty much every aspect of their life. However, all too often they forget to schedule their nutrition with their training. Here coach Diogo makes the point that now is the best time ever to ensure you have a sound understanding and knowledge to set up your pre and post-session routine. Also, hear about our #tricookingharder social media fun!
Read MoreContinuing the Tri Training Harder theme of recovery for this week, coach Jon Reilly takes a look into heart rate variability (HRV) as a tool for measuring recovery. What is it, does it work and could it be used as an early warning for COVID-19?
Read MoreRun safety seems like a random topic, but at this time of social isolation and lock-down, it really isn’t that crazy when you think about it. Read on to hear how our resident ultra-marathon runner and coach Trevor considers run safety at this present time.
Read MoreOn the whole, there are not that many of us who are lucky enough to get through multiple seasons of running training without experiencing some kind of niggle or injury. For triathletes, running is the discipline which induces the most force and impact that we need to experience and control. Typically in the region of 2 to 2.5 times your body weight on each leg, every stride! It is because of this force that it’s worth spending a bit more of your time on conditioning work, and being slightly more conservative when considering training load. Read on to find out how to manage the differences between running injuries and running niggles and when it is wise to back off.
Read MoreThis week’s Tri Training Harder theme is recovery. Over the last few weeks, varying degrees of lockdown has swept around the globe. But with all this extra time at home, are we getting enough good quality sleep? In this blog, coach Jon Reilly talks through the importance of sleep during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Read MoreRebecca has been working with Tri Training Harder for a few months now and has put together some really thought-provoking reflections in her weekly summary on Training Peaks. So much so, that we felt it was worth a share. Have a read here of how some athletes are coming with this fairly drastic change of plan.
Read MoreCOVID-19 is here and it looks likely to stay for the foreseeable, uncertain future. Our approach within Tri Training Harder has been to switch our athletes’ focus to what they ‘can’ achieve during this unusual period whilst prioritising their health and immunity.
But why are we doing this? Coach Alan Ward writes about the impact of exercise on our immune system to explain some of our considerations.
Read MoreOver the coming weeks, the coaches at Tri Training Harder will be organising various Zwift sessions for you. These are great opportunities to ride with your fellow TTH athletes as well as having access to the expert guidance of our TTH coaches. There will be various sessions available from steady group rides, hill rep sessions, group workouts, and maybe even some TTH racing!
In this blog Coach Jon Reilly will give you a brief run-through of everything you need to get started and give you a step by step guide on how to join in with the fun.
Read MoreCoach Diogo gives us some sound reasoning as to why training is still a good option at this moment in time. Read on to see his list of why you shouldn’t abandon training.
Read MoreRead on to find out how to manage your run-walk strategy to ensure a successful completion without burning matches unnecessarily. Tim Ansell provides a solution to creating your best race approach to run-walking a marathon and getting to that finish line.
Read MoreCOVID-19 is out there doing its thing and for many Sports-People it feels as though it is stopping us doing our thing. Read on to find out how to manage this period of unknown as our performance psychologist Mark Bellamy provides us with some pearls of wisdom.
Read MoreAs we can see from the news (and our inbox), Coronavirus is having a lot of impact on training sessions and races around the world. Pools are closed, races postponed or cancelled and group workouts at gyms shut too. This is an inconvenience for all of us triathletes. However, we should be quite stoic about all this.
Read MorePhilip, you are someone who has built a reputation at working with high performing age-group female athletes, often taking them from competitors to real contenders and not just working with people who were already at the sharp end. We are delighted to ask you some questions.
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