In this article, coach Philip looks at a classic area that people resort to in the off-season: Strength and Conditioning. If everyone turns to it in the off-season, is it applicable to all athletes? What about athletes who are new to the sport?

Here Coach Jon highlights some of the benefits of our Live Tri Training Harder Strength and Conditioning sessions.

Tri Training Harder initially began hosting live strength and conditioning sessions for all our coached athletes via Zoom during the COVID 19 pandemic. Due to the popularity and convenience of performing an ‘at-home workout,’ they have become a staple part of many of our coached athletes' weekly schedules. We know that strength training has many great benefits for endurance athletes. Today’s blog explores the advantages of performing your strength training live with one of our TTH coaches.

Strength and conditioning can be a confusing subject. Was it high-reps and light weight I was supposed to be doing today or was it the other way around? There are countless models out there to progress strength and conditioning workouts, in this blog coach Jon explains how to implement these into a triathlon training program.

To finish this series off, Coach Tim will look at the S&C scheduling or programming throughout the season, the art of putting it all together. He has already mentioned the critical training principles such as overload, progression and specificity. So what are the important components in strength & conditioning?

As Coach Tim continues this series around Strength & Conditioning for Triathletes, he looks into what else you can do with limited gym equipment or space. He's already discussed the dilemma regarding strength training trying to schedule into the weekly plan. He has also discussed the benefits of adding strength work into your training regime and the benefits of better technique, injury reduction and ultimately faster racing. At the same time, many triathletes still find it hard to strike a perfect balance with strength training.

The answer? Bodyweight conditioning is a great way to build muscular strength without adding muscle mass. Read on to find out more.

In this blog, Coach Jon looks at making injury prevention a permanent part of our daily routine.

In this article, Coach Tim explores the common misconception that lifting weights will make you bulk out. For an endurance athlete, bulking up doesn’t conjure images of better performances, but Tim explains how a proper strength and conditioning programme can add to your endurance performance gains.

Here Coach Tim talks us through how to improve your swimming warm up to get the most out of your swimming and bring this process to your summer races where ‘easy swimming’ just doesn’t happen!

The fourth (or fifth if you include nutrition) discipline is the conditioning work we can do in the gym. As most triathletes have access to a pool already, but do they take advantage of the gym bolted onto the side of the pool? Read on to work out why this should be underpinning your other three sports.

Have you ever come back from the off season and had your trusty triathlon buddy come back better than you?  You know the scenario, you were always neck and neck in training sessions, that one person you could gauge whether you were improving or not by being able to keep up with them....and then suddenly, come Spring time - it's like they have been secretly training all winter and have left you behind!

Sharon Simpson, one of the physio's who has worked with us for a couple of years in Portugal and now resides at The Bosworth Clinic is always on hand to help with her insight and expertise. Below she explores three very common injuries she sees and likely causes to help you avoid them and stay consistent with your training. 

This blog looks at three simple strength and conditioning exercises and demonstrates how you can use them to become a more efficient cyclist and fundamentally get faster. These are great as strengthening work, or as a bit of fun/challenge to add to your cycling training routine.

This blog looks at three simple strength and conditioning exercises and demonstrates how you can use them to become more efficient as a runner, reduce the chance of injury and therefore improve your consistency in running and fundamentally get faster. These are great as strengthening work, or as a bit of fun/challenge to add in to your running training routine.

We all know that to improve your swim performance one of the key things to do is swim more (sorry folks!), but there are a couple of other things that you can do as well as making that almost daily visit to the pool.

Here we show you three key exercises that will help your swimming.

In this episode, we chat to Coach Soraya. Soraya is enthusiastic with a huge passion for the sport. She came to Triathlon coaching after some time working as a PT. For our coached athletes, she’s famous for her Strength and Conditioning workouts and if you met her on one of our camps, you will know her for her big smile and positive outlook on the steepest of climbs! Today, we find out more about her as the coach and the athlete.

If you want to read more about Soraya, check her profile here. This year, Soraya moved from the UK to New York where she has to face a totally different experience in triathlon and huge challenges and is now our US-based coach and representative.

In this episode we get to know Isabel Tew, a positive and energetic person who talks to us about the benefits of learning and applying breathing techniques not just throughout our day but also for focussing through workouts and racing.

Isabel has a Yoga background and has been studying about meditation and breathing techniques in order to help people build their self-awareness and take in what is around them.