What’s In YOUR Lunchbox??? You are soooooooo busted. I just caught you running down into your basement workout area with a cup of coffee in one hand, your printed workout in the other and a piece of holiday fruitcake crammed in your mouth. You’re in a rush, hoping desperately to get some portion of your…
read moreHaving a great “next year” starts much sooner than you think. Inside Endurance Nation our focus begins in the winter with our OutSeason® training program. The OutSeason® is a no-nonsense, highly-focused training block designed to improve critical bike and run fitness. It is synchronized with the time when you have minimal volume demands in intentional,…
read moreDon’t Spend Winter In A Speedo — Unless It’s Like This! Winter is coming, and it’s time to start thinking about what you will do now to achieve your 2014 season goals. I’m not suggesting that you _have to_ do race-like volume or put in massive training weeks. But if your goals for 2014 involve…
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TeamEN at the 2014 Ironman World Championships DON’T Have an OffSeason In our experience and observation, once you give yourself permission to be “off,” this starts a cascade of counterproductive effects that will significantly impact your performance next season. Specifically, having an OffSeason gives you explicit permission to tear down many of the gains you’ve…
read moreFirst, I’m the “Season Planning Coach” here inside Endurance Nation — TeamEN athletes give me their race schedule, or ask me for race planning advice to meet their season goals. I then create for them a Triathlon Season RoadMap, detailing for them how I want them to stack our training plans across their season, given…
read moreDespite its shortcomings, the treadmill is a fascinating triathlon training tool. Nowhere is this more true than during the OutSeason, when your training is super focused.
read moreThe OutSeason® is a great time for our athletes to have fun while training, and that comes from an understanding of how watts per kilo affects their output.
read moreIn recent years, we’ve seen the Age Group Triathlete’s calendar become filled with more and more opportunities for “epic winter training/racing events” – high volume run challenges, high volume cycling challenges, Goofy Challenges, and many more. As endurance coaches and athletes ourselves, we certainly understand the commitment to a fitness lifestyle — build your fitness…
read moreThe OutSeason® is prime time to build your endurance sports performance, but triathlon success is about more than just treadmills and spandex.
read moreWhenever possible we encourage our athletes to add the objective intensity metrics of power and pace to the more common metrics of Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE) and heart rate. Why Objective Metrics? We encourage our athletes to develop the following perspective on fitness, training, and work: “Fitness” is your body’s ability to perform work,…
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