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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.

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