August and September often mark the point in the season where athletes are starting to gear up for their most important race or races of the season These “championship” races are often the ones you have been planning for all season using the first half of...
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Grit is that deep-seated drive to persevere despite obstacles, however long or difficult the road. Like most other character traits, grit is not something you are born with, but something you develop through life experience. More specifically it is a trait that can only be forged...
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In this piece, they share six key distance running techniques: Stride Rate Despite the running speed, stride rate should stay within a narrow range. At race pace, cadence should be at or above 180 steps per minute, or 90 revolutions per minute (counting one leg). Suunto uses...
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We often see athletes that go into the spring super fit after a long winter of consistent training. They often don’t feel ready for that first race but end up doing well and are super excited about the rest of the season, only to end...
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By now, hopefully you’ve gotten in some quality training and reached some winter training goals. Your race schedule should be pretty much nailed down and perhaps you’ve even gotten in a race or two or maybe your first race is coming up quick. It takes...
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The bicycle is an incredibly efficient machine, arguably the most efficient way for a person to move on land. According to Bill Nye (The Science Guy) ...
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Here is a closer look at an old but new, alternative interval workout that satisfies many of the criteria for improving endurance performance and has been scientifically proven effective over and over again for the past 20 years (and in practice for decades before). This workout...
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How you deal with adversity in your training will set you up with the coping skills to get through adversity during race week and on race day. You never go into a race or workout completely fresh and you shouldn’t expect to. Yes, you will...
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Too often athletes and coaches try to make workouts interesting at the expense of effectiveness. Roughly 80% of training should be sustained low to moderate intensity, so these workouts don’t need to be dressed up with all sorts of variation in intensity. For the other...
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This time of year athletes are often stuck inside on a trainer putting in time in hopes of improving bike power for the upcoming season. A key session that we like to incorporate is the muscle tension interval. Essentially, a muscle tension workout consists of long...
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