With triathlon season now coming into full swing in the UK, and the Open Water challenge swims not far off, learning to swim effectively with head up is important. As any of my swimmers will tell you, its one of the few times I will tell them to look forward; if...
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...
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...
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...
Olà from Alcochete in Portugal! One of the three sites for our partners at Lisbonsouth.com; we were running in the sun by the banks of the River Tejo and it’s super peaceful! For today’s Run Form Friday comment I wanted to look at why we do drills and...
Most of my athletes know that I’m not a big fan of using a pull buoy for doing technique work. In my view, too many triathletes rely on a pull buoy to do the work for them and get lazy through their core – so they just switch off. Of course there is a time...
