Stabilize yourself

As triathletes we tend to forget the importance of keeping our core and lateral leg muscles strong.  By doing the exercises in the video you engage a range of run- specific stabilizer muscles. This can help prevent injury – namely hip, knee, and ankle injury (provided you don’t over do them when just starting out!) [...]

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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Stretch and strengthen your lateral leg muscles

One of the best things you can do in the off season (if you haven’t been doing this all year) is to pay attention to your hip flexors and IT bands.   Throughout the year we all tend to neglect the side to side motion as we busy ourselves running, riding, and flutter kicking our way [...]

Move in different directions

Triathletes work the same major muscle groups while riding and running – moving straight ahead – and imbalances can develop because the stabilizer muscles around the hips and pelvis are relatively weak. This time of year is a great time to focus on your core and get those under-utilized muscles stronger. Pleiometric activities like single [...]

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