Coach Kate's Endurance Sport Lessons - Training for Senior Athletes
This article is a summary of the key points discussed by Joe Friel in his book 'Fast After 50'. If you have been training for several...
Coach Kate’s Endurance Sport Lessons - Heart Rate Variability
What is Heart Rate Variability (HRV)? HRV is the variation between heart beats. A high HRV score (more variation) indicates you are in a...
Coach Kate's Endurance Lessons - Training Nutrition
Below is a summary of recommendations for fuelling for endurance sports. Please be aware that this advice is general in nature. Please...
Coach Kate’s Endurance Sport Lessons - Mindset
Ben Crowe is a mindset coach who has worked with Ash Barty, Steph Gilmore, Dylan Alcott and the Richmond Football Club. He is a former...
Coach Kate’s Triathlon Lessons - Personal Hygiene
This triathlon lesson is not designed to name and shame, but highlight some unhygienic practices we are all guilty of at some stage, and...
Coach Kate’s Triathlon Lessons - Training Metrics
Common training metrics include heart rate, power, rate of perceived exertion, pace and speed. Training Peaks and your smart...
Coach Kate’s Triathlon Lessons - Sleep
Sleep is vital for recovery from training and a determinant of athletic success. Factors such as early morning training, long haul...
Coach Kate’s Triathlon Lessons - Iron Deficiency
Iron has several roles in the body including the transport and delivery of oxygen, and energy production. It is also key for both...
Coach Kate’s Triathlon Lessons - Consistency
Consistency is the backbone of an endurance training program. If you take a look at the world’s best endurance athletes you won’t find...
Coach Kate’s Triathlon Lessons - Mental Fatigue
Many of us are familiar with physical fatigue, from training, from work. Mental fatigue can also contribute to your overall ‘fatigue’...
Coach Kate’s Triathlon Lessons - Tapering
Taper is a period of time before an event where training load is decreased. This can be a reduction in training volume (time/distance) or...
Coach Kate’s Triathlon Lessons - Polarised Training
Polarised training is completing majority of training at low intensity, with small amounts of training at moderate & high intensity....
Coach Kate’s Triathlon Lessons - Sport Nutrition
Sport nutrition / supplementation is a lucrative industry. There is plenty of ‘advice’ available for athletes including fad diets etc. As...
Coach Kate’s Triathlon Lessons - Caffeine
Caffeine is one of the few legal (since 2004) performance enhancing (ergogenic) drugs.