One way of developing your swimming is to mix up your strokes. I am a big advocate of swimming backstroke and breaststroke to maximise the feel athletes have for the water and and understanding for what makes them move forwards. This week’s drill is primarily a...
Last weekend I took a trip over to Lisbon in Portugal, to recce the area and facilities of the company who approached us to run training camps. Lisbon South is the brain child of Antonio Barbosa, a bike shop owner and keen cyclist, who didn’t see why athletes...
There are three things that improve run speed for us, 3 factors. The first affects all three disciplines in triathlon, the speed/intensity of training. The second, more importantly, is technique and being more efficient, something we try to cover every week on here...
It was great to sit down and chat with Jon and Holly, owners of our partners at the Triathlon Shop in Bristol to nail down a very important agreement for us. In May, the Triathlon Shop will be officially moving to the Harbourside in Bristol from its current Temple...
All swimmers need to understand how to use their entire arm to pull in freestyle, so here’s a fun way to move the pull from depending on your hand, to depending on your arm. Why Do It: By varying the size of the connection of the hand AND FOREARM, but setting...
