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 - SleepSleep 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 DeficiencyIron 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 - ConsistencyConsistency 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 FatigueMany 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 - TaperingTaper 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 TrainingPolarised training is completing majority of training at low intensity, with small amounts of training at moderate & high intensity....
Coach Kate’s Triathlon Lessons - Sport NutritionSport nutrition / supplementation is a lucrative industry. There is plenty of ‘advice’ available for athletes including fad diets etc. As...
Coach Kate’s Triathlon Lessons - CaffeineCaffeine is one of the few legal (since 2004) performance enhancing (ergogenic) drugs.