Head Coach, Mike Porteous takes a look at the year ahead for both the Club and for the members individually. Mike shares his hopes for 2016 as well as some tips and reflections on setting and realising your own goals.
Read MoreRecovery is vital to us all in allowing the body to absorb and adapt to a training load (Volume x Intensity) and get fitter as a result. Recent club racing experiences have been educational for us all in understanding how long it can take to recover from different workout loads, and how that recovery time can vary due to basic genetic differences, age and fitness.
In Brighton Tri Club we are now moving into the build phase in our seasonal training cycle, which means that the intensity of sessions is increasing in order to get us ready for race efforts in the late spring and summer. That doesn’t mean that we stop doing easier workouts though.
Read MoreYou'll all have heard one or more coaches talk about "periodisation" and "phases" in club sessions. Given that we are now in the process of changing our session plans from "Base" to "Build" phase, it's a useful moment to ensure that there is a basic understanding out there of what that actually means.
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