You get the idea… Most of the triathletes that I work with or interact with are suffering from what I like to call “wrong shoe size syndrome”. Thinking with only the end in mind, these folks: Identify fast people. Identify what those people do for training / racing. Copy + Implement their training [...]
In the quest for peak physical fitness, it seems there is no limits to what people will try to get faster. Witness the constant battle being waged against steroids in professional sports…and some say in our high schools as well. It is the human condition to both want to be perfect and to choose not-so-perfect [...]
Complexity is easy, striving for the simple is what is truly hard. In this day and age of email overloaded, instant messaging multitasking madness, making things harder than they need to be is actually easier than it looks. Get it? Take swimming technique, where I have been spending some time lately because of some clinics [...]
A well-oiled triathlon life has a lot to do with proper workout scheduling, but it has even more to do with both your preparations for training and how YOU prepare for training. Today’s post just has some tips on how you can “get ready” for your workouts in advance, making the transition from citizen to [...]
Hint: She’s not looking for a missing contact lens. Triathlon is a sport of excess; there are few other athletic endeavors that both (a) incorporate multiple sports into a single event and (b) have a version of the event that covers 140.2 miles with a time window of 17 hours. Comparisons could be a 36-inning [...]
Cut your training hours. Focus on the critical work. Get faster and fitter. No, really. The first visceral reaction to the 10Hours A Week training approach is “Yeah, right!” People just don’t want to believe that slashing training hours to the critical workouts can actually improve their fitness, help restore balance to their lives and [...]
Hi, I'm Patrick McCrann.
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