Mental Preparation Articles & Videos
Swimming Faster: Freestyle with Tennis Balls
One of my favorite drills is swimming with tennis balls. This drill–as silly as it may seem–can dramatically improve your stroke and hand position in the water. Watch the demonstration in the video below to [...]
Run-Bike-Run Bricks: Get Stronger & Reduce Injury
As many of you know, I like to mix up brick workouts and do much, much more than the traditional bike-run brick! If you’ve never tried a run-bike-run brick before I’d highly recommend including it in [...]
Training for Open Water Race Pace
Practicing in open water at a race pace effort is a valuable experience going into your key events of the year. This workout includes longer threshold -- or race pace -- efforts with short bursts of [...]
Break Your Plateau on the Run
Tired of not improving your run split? Or are you putting in a lot of time running, only to be reduced to walking during a race? This high intensity workout will help bust you out [...]
The Brick Workout You Aren’t Doing… But Should!
The majority of triathletes consider a brick workout to be a bike-run session. Rarely do they include a swim-bike brick in their training plan. If you haven’t tried a swim-bike brick before, you are missing [...]
Don’t Get Dropped on Your Next Ride
It’s discouraging to get dropped on the bike — either on a group ride or in a race. When riding in a pack there are often surges among cyclists who try to pick up the pace for [...]
4 Race-Day Nutrition Mistakes that Undermine Your Performance
All too often I’ve seen athletes looking to PR -- or even win their Kona slot – who end up being plagued by nutritional problems that prevent them from reaching their goals. Does this sound like [...]
Workout Wednesday: Swim Speed Progression Sets
Do you find yourself swimming strong during the first part of a race, only to watch people pass you in the last 400m to the finish? Or do you blast the first half of a swim [...]
Vintage Dave: 1994 Hawaii Ironman was a Mental Game
Throughout your training and racing, it’s important not to forget about the mental side of your game. Well planned race strategies, a strong belief in yourself and an unshakable confidence in your training will [...]