INSCYD blog

How former Olympian swimmer and sport scientist Ragnar Gudmundsson revolutionizes swim training in Iceland

The peculiarity of swimming is that because of the relatively short duration of the races, all the three energy systems contribute to the power production and the overall performance of the athlete. In every single swim race the anaerobic energy production plays a huge and significant role.

You want to develop your squad and bring the youngsters to an elite level. You need that extra advantage to win against your competitors? Learn how a belgium swim club did it.

Anaerobic Threshold or FTP might well be the most popular metric in endurance sports. However, you may actually never ride or run at threshold.

Carbohydrate storage is very limited in the human body, and so is the uptake rate an athlete can tolerate when training and racing.

You’ve been told you need to train 15, 18 or even 20 hours a week to qualify for the
Ironman World Championships. Well, think twice.

Only once you’re able to relate a training program to specific physiological adaptations, you’re able to train in a true specific way and create a training program that targets the adaptation to match your individual goals.

Going sub-5 for the bike leg of an Ironman is a true milestone. Getting faster after this benchmark is clearly harder, but not impossible…if you know what limits your performance.

For INSCYD and team BORA – hansgrohe the first quarter of the year has been a blast.

Triathlon coach Joseph Spindler uses fat - and carbohydrate combustion rates to pace his athlete to a new personal best, sub-3h marathon.