Overview of the Training Methods – Part 4: Polarized Training

Overview of the Training Methods – Part 4: Polarized Training

Polarized Training: The Smart Path to Greater Endurance Performance 80% easy, 20% hard – why this formula applies equally to runners, triathletes, cyclists and swimmers.   More articles in this series:  Overview of the Most Popular Training Methods | Part 1:...
Overview of the Training Methods – Part 5: The Norwegian Method

Overview of the Training Methods – Part 5: The Norwegian Method

The Norwegian Method: Double Threshold, Half the Intensity – and Still Faster How the Norwegians redefined threshold training – and what recreational athletes can learn from it.   More articles in this series:  Overview of the Most Popular Training Methods | Part...
Training zones in endurance sports: Zones 1 to 5 explained

Training zones in endurance sports: Zones 1 to 5 explained

Endurance Training Zones: What Happens in the Body – and Why Zone 2 Is So Important Anyone who gets into endurance training will sooner or later come across the term “training zones.” Behind it lies a core concept of training control: depending on intensity, different...
Tapering and Race Preparation

Tapering and Race Preparation

Tips and Tricks for Tapering and Race Preparation You have done the work. Months of early mornings, long weekends, brick sessions, and careful nutrition. The fitness is built. Race week is not the time to add to it — it is the time to deliver it to the start line...
Pacing the Ironman Bike Leg

Pacing the Ironman Bike Leg

Why Wrong Pacing on the Bike Will Ruin your Run Picture the scene at kilometre 15 of the Ironman run. An athlete — well-trained, well-prepared, genuinely capable of a strong marathon — is shuffling. Legs gone. Energy gone. The race that looked so promising out of T2...
Race Day Nutrition for Ironman

Race Day Nutrition for Ironman

Ironman: Your fueling strategy on Race Day From swim start to finish line You have trained the fitness. You have practised the nutrition in long rides and brick sessions. You have loaded your carbohydrates and slept reasonably well. Now it is race morning, the gun...