Endurance Nation

Spring has sprung, the ice has melted and it’s time to unlock your bike from the trainer, toss a leg over it and RIDE outside in the sun! But before you do that, let’s talk about some considerations for making the transition from indoor to outdoor riding. You have more endurance than you think you [...]

You’re a triathlete — fit, strong and lean. You’ve been swimming 3- to 5-times a week, racking up the yards. You’re getting fitter and faster…you’re psyched. Then one day you have a scheduling conflict and drop in on the evening Masters with the age group kids next to you…and you’re getting smoked by 12-year-old kids. [...]

  We coach our team of over 800 triathletes via a suite of over 30 training plans. While we make most of these training plans available to the general public in our Store, we have a handful of special purpose, members-only, special-sauce training plans that we do not release to the public…until now! For a [...]

There are few darker / harder times of the year than when the average, endorphin-obsessed athlete can’t exercise. Somehow having time off but not being able to exercise is almost worse than being injured…but don’t let your healthy obsession steer you wrong this holiday season. Here are a few positive ways to handle the down [...]

We have completed our final edits based on member / athlete feedback and will release our 2013 OutSeason training plans to public on October 29th. Ninth Generation of Improvement 2013 will be our ninth generation of these plans, rewritten one to two times per year based on our coaching and training experience, and the feedback [...]

  We focus exclusively on age-group triathlon training that leads to measurable, quantifiable results. At the foundation of our approach to training is the idea that fitness is in the muscles, not the cardiovascular system. In other words, running with a higher heart rate doesn’t make you faster, it just means you have a higher [...]

Most of the time when I tell people that I’m a wife and a mother, they smile. Then I say I’m a lawyer, and I will see a mild grimace pass across their faces. Finally, when I mention that I love triathlon, I see a horror-stricken expression, which is inevitably followed by, “What? How do [...]

Why Do You Need A Pre-Season? Whether you prefer high volume training or the Endurance Nation Return on Investment, Quality-over-Quantity approach, we can all agree on one thing: “If you aren’t rested and ready to start training, your season will fall short of expectations.” Tweet This Quote   One of the biggest mistakes a triathlete [...]

Even though most endurance athletes have one big race each season, that doesn’t preclude them from doing many other events. After all, if you can do an Ironman or a 70.3, then you should be able to just jump into a marathon for fun…right? The answer would be yes if it weren’t for two specific [...]

  In my last post I shared with you Four Tips for Achieving Longevity in Long Course Triathlon…but I left you hangin’ on the fourth — how to schedule your triathlon season like a grizzled vet of the endurance fitness lifestyle! Below are the tools I use when creating over 1000 Season Plans per year [...]