Prepare for race day with Normann Stadler’s Ironman Taper Brick. This 75-minute workout combines 45 minutes of Level II cycling with 30 minutes of Level II running. Maintain bike-to-run familiarity, reinforce pacing discipline and manage fatigue while allowing your body to recover and arrive at the start line feeling fresh.
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Recovery days are an essential part of effective triathlon training. Discover why rest, sleep, proper fuelling and active recovery help your body adapt, manage fatigue and improve performance. Learn how balancing training stress with adequate recovery supports consistent progress, reduces injury risk and helps you become a stronger triathlete.
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Take on The Wringer Plus, a demanding 45-minute indoor cycling workout featuring twelve 45-second Level V++ efforts with progressively shorter recoveries. Build high-intensity cycling power, improve your ability to repeat hard efforts, and develop fatigue resistance as recovery time decreases. Can you maintain consistent power through all twelve repetitions?
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Improve your triathlon swim performance with three structured workouts targeting endurance, freestyle technique, pacing and sustainable speed. Establish your fitness with a 1,500m Time Trial, refine your stroke through purposeful drills, and develop consistent swimming speed. Ideal for Olympic-distance, Ironman 70.3 and T100 triathletes seeking better swim performance.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Triathlon Swim Training – Build Your Swim Performance With Three Key Sessions
Improve your cycling technique by keeping your upper body quiet. Learn how relaxed shoulders, stable hips and smooth pedalling can improve control and reduce unnecessary movement. Discover practical tips for maintaining good posture, developing cadence skills and riding more efficiently, even as fatigue builds during challenging indoor cycling workouts.
View More Keep Your Upper Body Quiet: How Better Cycling Technique Can Improve Efficiency and Control
Learn how to pace your best parkrun or 5K by starting smart, settling into a sustainable rhythm and finishing strong. Coach Ray explains how to set realistic targets, control your opening kilometre, adjust for hills and conditions, stay strong when the race gets tough, and maximise your final kilometre.
View More How to Pace Your Best parkrun or 5K: Start Smart, Settle In & Finish Strong
Smiling might seem insignificant during an Ironman 70.3, but it can become a powerful mental reset. Learn how deliberately smiling can help you relax, interrupt negative thoughts, manage difficult moments and refocus on what you can control when fatigue builds and your race inevitably starts to get tough.
View More Smile More Than You Think: A Simple Ironman 70.3 Mental Strategy
Why does Coach Ray want athletes to give him the finger? Discover the cheeky graph analogy behind controlled endurance training. Learn how to keep Level II sessions conversational, interpret pace, power and heart rate, and use your training data to develop better pacing without chasing a perfect graph every workout.
View More Giving the Coach the Finger: How to Keep Easy Training Easy
Consistent Ironman training beats occasional hero sessions. One massive workout cannot replace weeks of purposeful swimming, cycling and running. Learn why sustainable training, appropriate recovery and regularly completing the right sessions will build greater endurance, reduce disruptive fatigue and prepare you more effectively for a strong Ironman race-day performance.
View More Ironman Training: Why Consistency Beats Hero Sessions
Bad patches are a normal part of marathon racing. Learn how to stay calm when the going gets tough, check your pacing and fuelling, manage negative thoughts, and focus on what you can control. A difficult kilometre doesn’t have to define the rest of your marathon or your race-day experience.
View More Prepare for Bad Patches: How to Stay in Control When Your Marathon Gets Tough