Training Programs - Coach Kate’s Endurance Sport Lessons
Training programs are hugely beneficial for endurance sport. An effective program will slowly progresses your training load to reflect...
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Training With Power Handbook - Coach Kate's Endurance Sport Lessons
This is a summary of the key learnings I took from reading The Power Meter Handbook by Joe Friel, founder of Training Peaks. Power Meters...
Atomic Habits - Coach Kate's Endurance Sport Lessons
The following is a summary of the learnings and direct quotes from the book. Atomic habits describes are small achievable changes,...
Menopause and Endurance Training - Coach Kate's Endurance Sport Lessons
Common symptoms of menopause: hot flushes night sweats weight gain mood swings insomnia Menopause can also affect your ability to recover...
Training for Senior Athletes - Coach Kate's Endurance Sport Lessons
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...
Heart Rate Variability - Coach Kate’s Endurance Sport Lessons
What is Heart Rate Variability (HRV)? HRV is the variation between heart beats. A high HRV score (more variation) indicates you are in a...
Training Nutrition - Coach Kate's Endurance Sport Lessons
Below is a summary of recommendations for fuelling for endurance sports. Please be aware that this advice is general in nature. Please...
Mindset - Coach Kate’s Endurance Sport Lessons
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...
Personal Hygiene - Coach Kate’s Endurance Sport Lessons
This triathlon lesson is not designed to name and shame, but highlight some unhygienic practices we are all guilty of at some stage, and...
Training Metrics - Coach Kate’s Triathlon Lessons
Common training metrics include heart rate, power, rate of perceived exertion, pace and speed. Training Peaks and your smart...
Sleep - Coach Kate’s Endurance Sport Lessons
Sleep is vital for recovery from training and a determinant of athletic success. Factors such as early morning training, long haul...
Iron Deficiency - Coach Kate’s Endurance Sport Lessons
Iron has several roles in the body including the transport and delivery of oxygen, and energy production. It is also key for both...
Consistency - Coach Kate’s Endurance Sport Lessons
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...
Mental Fatigue - Coach Kate’s Endurance Sport Lessons
Many of us are familiar with physical fatigue, from training, from work. Mental fatigue can also contribute to your overall ‘fatigue’...
Tapering - Coach Kate’s Endurance Sport Lessons
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...
Polarised Training - Coach Kate’s Endurance Sport Lessons
Polarised training is completing majority of training at low intensity, with small amounts of training at moderate & high intensity....
Sport Nutrition - Coach Kate’s Endurance Sport Lessons
Sport nutrition / supplementation is a lucrative industry. There is plenty of ‘advice’ available for athletes including fad diets etc. As...
Caffeine - Coach Kate’s Endurance Sport Lessons
Caffeine is one of the few legal (since 2004) performance enhancing (ergogenic) drugs.
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