Made famous by James Clear (if you haven't read his book Atomic Habits yet then it's a must), habit forming and stacking habits is a sure fire way of improving performance. The very best performers and athlete, even if they are reamaining injury free all have great habits, routines and practices in places. However these behaviours weren’t all formed over night, they may have started with one or two good behaviours and this is where you can potentially start too, tune in to identify where you could start to make some little changes that could have big benefits down the line. 00:02 The Power of ..read more

Your coach athlete relationship is one of great importance and many of you will be lucky to have coaches who you trust, enjoy working with and who you build a strong friendship with. The emotional highs and lows of endurance sport and the shared pursuit of adventure, it’s no surprise that we put our training in the hands of people we like and who understand us. However it might be time to stop and have a think…Does your coach program what you want or what you need? Does your coach have the physiological understanding and experience around what you are asking of your body? Does you coach ask yo ..read more

Any training program will have it's highs and lows, there will be sessions where you feel great and others where you feel terrible. But the skill comes in not dwelling upon these sessions but rather having the ability to identify external factors that may have contributed to you feeling a particular way. Work, sleep, food and lifestyle stress can all have a huge impact on our ability to train optimally. Kriss shares his own personal experience in todays episode, and highlights how a week of inconsistent behaviour and abnormal activity impacted his own training progress. 00:44 The Importance of ..read more

Kriss is joined by friend and well respected professional Wei, who is the Director and Lead Bike Fitter at London's 'Foundation Bike Fit’. Having collaborated on several occasions over the past few years, Kriss & Wei have a mutual understanding and respect for the important link between bike fitting and S&C. In todays chat they discuss some great topics including 'How often do you need to get a bike fit?', 'Why cycling is still behind the time when it comes to embracing the benefits of S&C' and ‘Finding the best bike for you and your body'. (00:46) Introducing Wei and Foundation Fi ..read more

In our third episode of the Overtraining Series, we look at the importance of periodisation and having a structure to your programming. By ensuring this framework is in place it’ll allow for optimal recovery, adaptation to all the training stimulus and essentially giving the body time for physiologoical processes to occur in order to see the results of your hard work. Whilst getting stronger and more conditioned is our main aim we want to ensure that we don’t become energy deficient as a result. Kriss talks through how we can get the most out of appropriate periodisation within your training a ..read more

Kriss looks into the importance of having a comprehensive approach to your traininig and what the obvious qualities of a good run, bike or multisport program might look like. Why you will always struggle to follow a stand alone run program and how to go about integrating better stratgies towards your nutrition, recovery, periodisation and strength and conditioning. (00:44) The Comprehensive Approach to Training (02:43) A Real-Life Case Study: The Importance of a Balanced Training Regimen (03:46) Unpacking the Comprehensive Training Approach (05:56) The Essential Components of a Successful Trai ..read more

Training experience essentially refers to the depth of conditioning we have. A trait that many of our top performing athletes have in abundance. Think of it like work experience. You ask anyone who’s at the top of their respective field and they’ll tell you it took years of experience, a gradual progression through the ranks and most definitely learning from their mistakes and the challenges they’ve faced. So how can we fast track this when it comes to our endurance performance? We can’t cheat years of training experience, but by manipulating the conditioning we put our bodies through we can n ..read more

Are you just going through the motions with your training? Superficially moving from one sessions to the other? Ticking off sessions in your training peaks account or coaching app? This is where athletes often go wrong. They become stale, there is a lack of focus, no visible progress, training is ineffective and many often get injured because they don’t see the imbalances starting to creep in. If you want to get more out of your performance you need to approach your training with more depth. How? Kriss shares more in todays episode. 00:45 The Importance of Reflecting on Your Performance 02:51 ..read more

Kriss kicks off our 'Overtraining Series' with the topic of Energy Availability, specifically poor energy availability and the impact it can have upon athletes. A topic close to his heart, Kriss opens up about the impact that it’s had on his personal life and that of clients he’s worked with throughout his many years of coaching experience. We need to respect the fact that there is a wide spectrum to this topic, from those who perhaps naively don’t know how much fuel their body needs to train and perform, to other more serious cases which can see full blown clinical eating disorders, where pro ..read more

Today Kriss and Sophie discuss the all important question of 'How many times can you peak in a year?' 'How many times across the year can you truly expect to get the most out of your body and push it to it's physical limits? Be it in a competitive environment or adventure type scenario, we can all get sucked into filling our calendars with the next most exciting races, however there needs to be planning, logic and most importantly a clear goal when it comes to each event if we want to execute things well and time after time. (00:53) Understanding the Concept of Peaking (01:36) The Importance o ..read more