TCMTRISQUAD

But, in my years coaching and observing hundreds of amateur athletes, time or availability to train or “busyness” is rarely the distinguishing factor in how much work gets done. What differentiates them is the motivation, organization and the importance, or focus, they place on training in their lives (prioritization).

In the effort for influencers to generate content, coaches to justify their existences and researchers to find new things to research, the macro factors of what really impacts endurance performance can get displaced by the less important. You can only write so many articles about how simply doing more will make you better before it becomes boring. But no one has ever accused me of being interesting so here goes... Training Volume Athletes love the idea of getting more by doin

Triathlon is too often an independent pursuit for athletes, as the sport’s federations and professional and amateur teams search for a model that works. Over the last 25 years, Martin Spierings has been professionally involved in triathlon as an athlete, team member, coach, manager and owner of endurance sports clubs on three different continents. Drawing from these experiences, he’s created a vibrant amateur triathlon team, TCMTriSquad. Martin’s goal is to use the dynamics a

The importance of the physiological and scientific underpinnings of triathlon performance is often over-emphasized both by coaches, media publications and athletes themselves. How do social and psychological components factor in to the ultimate success of the amateur triathlete? A little while back I listened to a Scientific Triathlon podcast of Kerry McGawley , a top age group triathlete, who won her age group (45-49) at the 2023 70.3 World Championships. These podcasts usua

So, you’ve invested in a personal triathlon coach to provide a customized training plan for you. It could be someone you’ve just employed or someone you’ve been working with for a while. It might surprise (disappoint) you that getting more value out of that appointment does not involve sending them off to do another coaching qualification. It could be up to you. As a coach, my goal when I design a training plan, far more important than finding the right balance of volume and

It was the year 2012. I was living in Chicago and went on a group run with some other triathlete friends. At that stage maybe about 25% of runners wore GPS watches. We set off and agreed to meet at a specific breakfast joint at the end. One of the runners reached the final destination after the run and proceeded to run several hundred yards up and down on a busy sidewalk in front of the breakfast place until her GPS watch told her she was at 10 miles. Either because her coach

three simple rules that apply universally and might help guide a debutante who didn’t want to launch straight into hiring a coach.