Unlock the secrets behind the Norwegian training method and discover how to apply its principles to your triathlon training! In this recorded group coaching call, Triathlon Coach Ray breaks down how this elite approach—used by top athletes like Kristian Blummenfelt and Gustav Iden—can help everyday triathletes improve performance, endurance, and race-day outcomes.
View More Coach Ray’s Chats: Ep 15 The Norwegian Method
Preparing your body for the intensity that will be replicated and sustained during an event is an essential part of training. This session is great for triathletes, and road cyclists. It can also be beneficial for mountain bikers, especially for events that are about an hour in duration such as a 40km Time Trial or the bike leg of an Olympic Distance Triathlon.
View More Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: Easy Tempo -2
Building your ability to sustain your threshold pace in a swim is an important capability for triathletes and open-water swimmers. These sessions further develop that ability by progressing your fitness by completing reps at a fast pace that you can sustain. This session will benefit triathletes of all distances, as well as other open-water swimmers.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Tour de Cure Session 3
Testing yourself with a session that provides minimal rest is a great way to put yourself under pressure. This session is designed to teach your body to run fast when tired and is great for 5km runners and sprint distance triathletes.
View More Friday Fartlek Run: Steve Trew’s Speed Under Pressure
Take Your Swimming to New Heights: Swim Fitness Improver for Intermediate Swimmers.
Attention, intermediate swimmers! If you’re logging 2,000m to 3,000m per session and are determined to enhance your performance, our Swim Fitness Improver training plan is tailor-made for you.
This week, yet again had lots of new aspects,. Starting off with my new training layout with some new sessions added. For a while now I have wanted to try the double training approach, although I am mostly completing them one after another I also have the option to seperate them to either end of the day, and only do so when it’s 2x runs in a day.
View More Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 91]: Balancing Uni, Training and a Social Life
The use of Brick sessions within your training is essential for development especially for short and fast sprint distance triathlons. Torsten Abel goes against convention, but one thing that isn’t against convention is the intensity that this brick is done at. This will help you build speed at your top end race speed.
View More Monday’s Brick: Torsten Abel’s Sprint Brick A
Coach Ray of Qwik Kiwi Coaching discussing some generalised training principles with athletes he coaches.
View More Coach Ray’s Chats: Ep 14 Ask me Anything
Short bursts of high intensity riding can enhance your VO2 max. This is the research behind the Martin Gibala series of workouts. With boosted VO2 max, your Functional Threshold Power (FTP) will also increase proportionately. This workout will benefit all endurance cyclists – road, mountain bikers and triathletes.
View More Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: GTN’s Micro Burst Session
The opening leg of an Ironman 70.3 is an important part of the event. If you swim well you can set yourself up for a good bike and run. Being able to swim efficiently and smoothly will enable you to stay fresh and get onto the bike in a good position. This series of workouts will set you up for success.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Ironman 70.3 Swim Success – Week 6