Triathlon Coaching

Pre-Hab for Triathletes

Pre-Hab for Triathletes

Do you like being injured? Do you look after the little things as well as you could? Massage, nutrition, sleep, relaxation, balanced lifestyle, etc?

One of the key areas outside of training & sleeping to enhance performance for me is something called ‘Pre-Hab’.

What is Pre-Hab?

Pre-Hab (Pre Habilitation or doing things to prevent injury) is often low down the list of priorities for most people trying to balance training with the rest of their lives.

This is normal; we have jobs, families, and lives and are simultaneously trying to get better at three disciplines (and transitions). However, as a coach one of the most difficult scenarios I come across is the athlete struggling mentally due to long-term and sometimes short-term injuries.

Done in an hour: Run

Done in an hour:  Run

The third in our series of “Done in an hour” articles are looking to give you three run sessions specifically targeting skills and technique, technique and aerobic capacity, and finally lactate tolerance and strength.

Running is by far the predominant area in which triathletes pick up most of their injuries and this can be caused by poor technique, over-training (as it is the only weight-bearing discipline), or conducting brick-type sessions thus running tired off the bike (again poor technique/ poor economy of motion).