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Dave Scott: The 4 Key Areas of TAPERING for a Race
07/15/10: Physical

Rule One:
Allowing your body to rest and rebuild over the final four weeks provides the heightened sharpening to your race. Rest does not mean easy training. Maintaining the same percentage of hyper intensity training (Read More)

ironguides: Mental Attitude for Ironman
05/18/10: In the final days before you race an Ironman it is essential that you keep a few things in mind.

Ironman essence – Gratitude

The Ironman hype in the final week before race day often makes you forget the reason you are (Read More)

Cliff English: The basics of heat acclimatization
04/21/10: While most competitors meticulously prepare to endure the tremendous physical demands of a Triathlon, many underestimate the impact that climate can have on race performance.

Heat and humidity can have such an affect on the outcome of an (Read More)

Marc Evans: Why are Mobility and Strength Important to Assess?
04/09/10: For better than 15 years before I carry out a swimming, cycling or running technique coaching evaluation, athletes are put through a functional screening routine. This protocol provides an aggregate overview of mobility, flexibility and strength. (Read More)

Athletes and the power of the present moment
04/02/10: After 13 years of coaching and interacting with athletes I find that the biggest single hurdle for athletes is their mental approach to racing and training and, indeed more importantly, their attitude to life in general.

I find that athletes (Read More)

Seven Ways to Beat The Midday Slump
03/24/10: As an endurance athlete with a jam-packed schedule, you spend the better part of your day running full tilt. Whether it’s work or play, you probably give everything 110% until you absolutely can’t anymore. Most of the time your body’s way of saying (Read More)

Sleep: The best budgeting you can do.
02/16/10: We’re all starting to get fired up for the coming season. And with that we start thinking about what we’ll do differently this year so that we can build on the successes we had last season and reduce any weaknesses. As a coach we’ve spent a lot of (Read More)

Demonstration of Competence, risk taking and the willingness to suffer
02/11/10: I was driving back from a race with a couple of friends recently and the conversation turned to what the difference was between success in an event and disappointment? In the context of this conversation we acknowledged that success can take on many (Read More)

A Mental Skills Profile: Improve Your Mental Mindset to Become a Stronger Athlete
02/01/10: One of the training documents that I share with new coached athletes is a MENTAL SKILLS profile. At the outset of our relationship as coach/athlete, I want them to become more aware of their mental skills: how they think and talk to themselves, (Read More)

Chuckie V: Train Belief
12/24/09: This morning, after peeling the skin back from my eyes and taking care of my typical Pee & Tea ritual, I turned on the old computer. There I received a great (Read More)

ironguides: Refine Your Mental Flexibility by Making the Most of Your Pain Cave
11/19/09: Mental flexibility or toughness is the key to success in endurance athletics. The best athletes know this: It is a matter of mind over matter - if you don’t mind it doesn’t matter.

We have all heard about the mystical “Pain Cave” in writings (Read More)

Jesse Kropelnicki: Sacrifice
09/28/09: One of the most dangerous things I sometimes see in the athletes I work with or meet is a mismatch between their race performance goals and their willingness to make the sacrifices it takes to reach them. By “sacrifice”, I mean doing something in (Read More)

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