Fitness for life's adventures
Sport Specific programmes
In Part One, we’ve focused on instilling good technique that works your core effectively. In Part Two we’re adding some ideas to engage more muscles in your abdomen and make your code work harder. A ‘normal’ plank concentrates on the layers to the front and middle of your core, so you can extend that to …
As we start back in the new season it would be good to start getting some routine exercises alongside Thursday (and Sunday) training, so to help we’re going to give you some tips each week to help build some workouts that hopefully you’ll be able to find time for. Important note, this isn’t a competition …
So the intention to do the 2016 Wimbleball 70.3 Ironman was set back in August 2015 and I spent the last few months of the year upping my exercise regime to give me a good baseline going into 2016. Looking at the positives, I definitely improved my base fitness quite significantly. I joined the gym …
22nd September – 28 lengths, 22 minutes… Fourth swim session in two weeks now done and I’m still not feeling like a stronger swimmer. I’m certainly not anywhere close to stringing multiple 25 metre lengths of freestyle together, and am stuck at alternating between freestyle and breast stroke, with breathers after every 2 or 4 …
Still finding breathing the hardest part of swimming… 23 mins… 25 lengths and 625 metres.
Second swim session… Tracking made really easy with a Swimtag that tracks my lengths… 24 minutes… 28 lengths… 700 metres.
11th Sept… first early morning swim. Half an hour of freestyle and breast stroke… it was hard, really hard, and I felt tired for a good time afterwards in a way that cycle exhaustion hasn’t hit me for a long while. It’s clear that breathing is going to be the key here, so my focus …
Understanding how my fitness is improving is, I feel, critical to my preparation for the Ironman undertaking. There are a variety of tests involving pull-ups, planks and push-ups, which measure muscular strength, but those should come as a result of the triathlon training, so I’m not going to consider those. However, short of putting myself …
How on earth do you prepare for a 70 mile triathlon when you’ve never done a half marathon or any open water swimming? In terms of structured training I’m going to base my training around the ‘time poor’ TriRadar training plan. I think that I’ll actually have more time available than they suggest, but given …
For some reason, over the past few weeks, as thoughts move to Christmas festivities, there’s been talk of everyone committing to a challenge during 2016 at a New Year party. Ian, one of my good friends in Malmesbury, has had an Ironman in the back of his mind for some time now and, as I …