Run Drills – A’s B’s & C’s

Working on run form is important.  With these 3 simple drills you can teach  your body to improve your run stride and efficiency, as well as muscle activation patterns.  They don’t take long, 5 minutes at the most.  Throw them in as part of your warm up, during a recovery walk/jog, or at the end [...]

Run Uphill

You’ve probably heard of the benefits to running uphill.  No doubt they’re true and no doubt hill repeats will help make you faster, stronger, and more resiliant.  If you don’t enjoy running up and down the same hill over and over again, simply try and make some of your runs in hillier terrain.  It will [...]

Weekly Tips

After a few months of daily tips we’re going to move to a more managable weekly tips site.  This will give us some time to put together a couple videos, as well as put a bit more detail into each tip.

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If you don’t know – ask

A lot of athletes that are new to the sport of triathlon, have a bad run in with a snobby bike store guy, a know-it-all swimmer, or a self proclaimed hardcore runner – and become afraid of asking questions and looking stupid.  While figuring things out the hard way is a sure fire way to [...]

Vertical kicking

If you have a deep end in your pool, a great way to work on your kick is to do some vertical kicking. Keep your body nice and straight and move your feet as your would normally – there is a tendency to increase knee bend too much while vertical kicking. A good set is [...]

Side Stepping

Today’s tip is brought to you by the letters C and V.  As in Coach Chuckie V.
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Here’s one of my favorite exercises to do in the gym or at home. They’re called side steps. I’ve always tried to describe these in the written form but always struggled to do so. No more of that nonsense!

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Pacing an Ironman bike

This is probably the hardest thing to learn to do well, everyone struggles with it.  Letting go of your ego and the thought that “the bike is my strength, I need to make up time” is important.  If the bike is your strength, then know by going the same pace as your competitors (or perhaps [...]

Go to bed

Quality sleep is one of the most important, yet often neglected, aspects of triathlon training. It is the time where that nasty stress hormone cortisol finally stops getting produced, human growth hormone is released and your body repairs itself.  It can definitely be difficult to get enough of the shut eye with work, family and [...]

Congratulate yourself

It is great to have big goals and to push yourself hard to reach them but it is important not to dwell on your shortcomings. As an athlete it pays to develop a selective memory. Learn from your mistakes, but remember the good stuff. It is easy to leave the pool frustrated that you didn’t [...]

Time constraints

Does it feel like you don’t have enough time in the day to get the training you want done?  Try keeping a log of everything you do during a week.  Keep track of how long it took you to do a typical activity, and I guarantee you’ll find something that surprises you.  For me, it [...]

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