Testing Endurance Athletes During Pre-Season Pre-season is a crucial period for endurance athletes as they lay the foundation for their upcoming season. It is during this time that athletes focus on improving their fitness, refining their skills, and setting performance goals. Testing endurance athletes during the pre-season plays a vital role in assessing their current…

What does success look like for me in the triathlon journey? A tricky question. In triathlon, success cannot be pinpointed to one thing. It’s a sport with three disciplines, countless variables, and a path that never truly ends. Answering this question becomes challenging. While measurable aspects such as time, pace, speed, and power play a…

  Did you fully embrace the recovery phase? Excellent! Now, as we enter the offseason, it’s time to get to work. But hold on, this work involves engaging your brain cells, particularly your coach brain cells. We have a crucial and exciting task at hand: reviewing your past season and crafting a game-changing plan for…

It’s that time of year… temperatures are soaring here in Dubai, and although our alarm clocks are gradually being set to earlier and earlier start times to try and beat that heat and humidity, we cannot fully escape it. Our sessions will feel harder! We end up hot sweaty mess, red-faced, heavy breathing, and soaking…

TRIATHLON OFF-SEASON PLAN – PHASE 1: RECOVERY So you “your coach” decided its time to turn on the off-season mode, KHALLAS! The first phase of your off season should be your recovery; don’t feel bad about it: it’s a well-deserved time, or at least it should be. The biggest issue I see as a coach…

You often hear this in endurance sports; Every Finish line is the start of a new race!   The End of the race season is around the corner as we look towards the start of the off season; but what is an off-season … and what should it look like for you? Should you keep…

Summer is here and many of us have already noticed an increase in the number of days with hot and humid weather. And if you live or have lived in the Middle East you know that every day for the next four months IT WILL BE HOT! Reviewing a little bit of physiology will give…

Part 1 Do you suffer from heartburn, stomach burning, bloating, gas, nausea, and general gastrointestinal problems? Do these feelings arise when you’re upset, anxious, happy and/or unexpectedly? Have you tested, and the results were clear but still feel that there’s something wrong? If this is the case, then you have IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) also…

Intermittent fasting (IF) is an eating pattern that cycles between periods of fasting and eating. It doesn’t specify which foods you should eat but rather when you should eat them. Common intermittent fasting methods involve daily 16-hour fasts or fasting for 24 hours, twice per week. IF is gaining more attention every year with many…

This strength training for endurance athletes article discusses resistance training and how it affects endurance athletes specifically & periodization strategies to build a solid training program. We focus on low-intensity exercise endurance (LIEE) when we talk about triathlon. However, this article goes deep into the science of how strength training improves athletic sports performance. There…