Unlock Your Performance Potential with Zone 2 Training: A Comprehensive Guide

Unlock Your Performance Potential with Zone 2 Training: A Comprehensive Guide

Zone 2 training is trending. I found this out when WHOOP reached out to discuss with me. You can follow the conversation here in the podcast, and I’ll summarize and expand on a few points in this blog.  What is Zone 2 Training? Zone 2 training, also known as...
Female Athlete Mystery: should she train with respect to her menstrual cycle?

Female Athlete Mystery: should she train with respect to her menstrual cycle?

I recognise the irony in what I’m going to write about. I’m a male coach. But I’m also a post-graduate researcher investigating factors influencing substrate utilisation in women that take part in endurance-type events. And the women I coach often ask me: should I be...
Why?

Why?

I think I’ve heard it said that coaching an endurance athlete involves part science — part art. It’s a sentiment I broadly agree with, and for me, roughly translates to convincing the athlete to do the activity that will help them most on a given day. Successful...
Why Athletica?

Why Athletica?

I’ve previously written about my “semi-pro” days as a young triathlete in the late 80s and early 90s, and love reflecting on the fitness that was gifted to me in those days (I miss it). To show my age, this was in fact before the internet was part of daily life. For...

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