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Unfortunately, training can result in injuries. However, the path back to training is often shortened unnecessarily due to a fundamental gap in communication between some key partners. The athlete has a responsibility to know what the best practice should be as well as holding each party accountable to it. Coach Soraya explores this sensitive conversation.
Accurate data on injury prevalence in triathlon is lacking; however, we know that 80-85% of injuries in triathlon are overuse injuries. Here coach Jon takes a look at 5 common injuries suffered by triathletes and gives some tips on how to avoid them.
On 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.
Here Tim Ansell delves into understanding your body and how to manage the humble niggle. As athletes we all get them, but how often do we actually listen to what our body is telling us? Read on here.
Research shows that over 50% of triathletes have experienced overuse injuries; not a great slogan for the sport! Fortunately, there are many things you can do to prevent getting hurt (things that people bringing up those stats are probably not doing!).
Injuries happen, that is sport - it's how you deal with them that defines your recovery more than what the injury is. Read on to see how you can turn an injury from having a negative impact on your season to having a positive one.
‘Injury’ is probably every triathletes least favourite word with 'physio exercises' coming a close second! Yet they are probably also some of the most common! Occasionally we will be told we can't do something. For most of our athletes we rarely "stop" unless we really need to – and that is a final option and we always bring them back as soon as possible. If you do have to stop, pause or limit your training, here are some great bits of advice.
Being told to take things back to basics is never easy, especially when it stops you from doing what you want to do. However in this blog Race Team athlete Elaine Garvican writes about how she made huge gains with her running by doing just this and actually, rather counter intuitively stopping running.
Podcast
In this episode our guest is one of our coached athletes. David Maia, is a coached athlete who suffered a bike crash last August that put him in coma for one month.
David shares with us how his recovery was from learning how to walk again to the start line of a Triathlon race in this past month of March.
His will power and resilience allowed him to have a fantastic recovery that not only gives him the chance to live a normal life but to keep doing what he loves the most, Triathlon.
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Running injuries can affect many triathletes at some point in their triathlon career. In this blog Coach Jon takes a look at some things you can do to reduce your chance of injury from running.