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...
Run Smarter: Running Form, Economy, and Durability

Run Smarter: Running Form, Economy, and Durability

Run Smarter: A Guide to Running Form, Economy, and Durability Practical guidance to help runners move better, go further, and stay injury‑free. Running looks simple: one foot in front of the other. No equipment, no technical barrier. Yet most new runners get injured...
Masters Sport: Getting Older, Training Smarter

Masters Sport: Getting Older, Training Smarter

Few myths in endurance sport are more persistent than this one: as you get older, you simply have to accept that performance declines. Train less, demand less, rest more. Those who believe this underestimate both the adaptability of the human body and what sports...
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...
Nutrition as the Fourth Discipline

Nutrition as the Fourth Discipline

Fuelling for long-course triathlon Imagine this: you’ve trained for months. Your swim, bike and run is on pace. Race day comes—and by K 25 of the marathon, you’re walking. Not because of fitness or pacing, but because you ran out of fuel or your stomach shut down....