Super Charge
Whether you’re a swimmer, cyclist, runner or team sports athlete eyeing a move into multisport, triathlon will throw up a host of unique challenges. How do you improve in one discipline and not suffer in the other two? Increase your training load without becoming injured? Understand how to fuel your performance? And gain confidence for that introduction to open-water swimming?
If you’re troubled by any of the above questions, then fear not. Because over the following pages, we’ve given a newcomer to tri – former runner Tomos Whitmarsh-Knight, 30, who’s aiming for August’s Carlisle Sprint Triathlon – their very own multisport MOT, courtesy of Matt Luxton at the Tamar Performance Centre in Devon.
Cue mindset and nutritional advice, technique analysis and guidance on how to find that elusive tri-and-life balance. Turn the page to find out what our tri debutant learnt from his day of tri conditioning…
1 FINDING THE BALANCE
Understanding the background of an athlete is very important, not only from a physiological perspective but also psychological. This
