James gives us a brief history of how it all began from messing about with some ideas on his own shoes, to being the creator behind many of the worlds top Cyclist and Triathletes footwear the world over. His most high profile customers include, Alex Dowsett, Simon Clark, Sebastian Kienle to name just a few.

Give this full body session a go, it requires very little equipment but still provides a great conditioning session. Including movements like the bear crawl, arabesque and depth jumps provide a strenuous workout for the neuromuscular system as it heavily places stress upon your stability and coordination.

With better coordination and stability your body becomes more economical, as you're able to channel the trained muscles more efficiently so you don't lose power through each step or cycle.

Ferg joins us from his apartment in Grenoble, France to go over his transition from ITU to the new world of 70.3.

We chat career, lessons learned, top tips and what lies beyond Lockdown in 2020/21.

This week session is a simple lower body and core workout you can incorporate into your strength training. It focuses on the key muscles you use when running and cycling, helping you to promote performance enhancement and reduce the likelihood of injury.  Building stronger legs are going to make them more efficient at carrying and utilising oxygen and absorbing the stress placed upon them, ultimately improving your performance.

This weeks sessions is a great upper body workout that primarily uses battling ropes. Battling ropes provide a powerful and dynamic workout, allowing you to build strength and endurance in your upper body and your core. These exercises also provide a heavy cardiovascular function, which is a great way of building on your fitness levels whilst enhancing your muscular endurance. This can be a great addition for triathletes and swimmers where the exercises recruit and build on the muscles that are heavily taxed whilst in the water.

This week our Athlete in Focus is one of true human spirit and Faith.

Nienke Oostra shares how the very deep lows can motivate you to even greater highs.

We chat with Chris about his career crossroads, mental health, comebacks and what he’s doing now to promote the Cornish based Pro team Saint Piran

This weeks session focuses on our core strength.

The core stabilises your body and increased strength here will build on your trunks ability to generate and maintain force. Enhancing the endurance of your hip and core muscles is very important for sports performance.

Enhanced endurance here will allow stabilisation for an increased duration, providing persistent force and power transitions through the body. Scientific research has demonstrated significant relationships between core endurance/strength and with the ability to produce and maintain force. 

This week we are joined by EWS Mega star Mark Scott from the Santa Cruz Enduro Team. We chat about his journey, sports back ground and why Enduro riders can be more versatile than many people think.

Similar to last weeks session we are focusing on incorporating resistance bands into your strength workouts. Again, these bands are incredibly versatile and will add an extra element to your training. Compared with free weights, they place your muscles under constant tension. This requires a greater activation of stabilising muscles and greatly enhances the control of your movements. This session focuses on upper body exercises, which many runners and cyclists may neglect as upper body strength doesn't initially seem required for performance. However, runners will find a strengthened upper body supports the movement and coordination of each step, making them more efficient. And cyclists will develop a stiffer midsection, providing a more efficient power output through each pedal. The exercises here are great for supporting and developing strength around the shoulder. For swimmers this is hugely beneficial as most swimming injuries occur at the shoulder due to the repetitive motion. Therefore implementing these exercises are hugely beneficial for developing strength and reducing the risk of injury.

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Similar to last weeks session we are focusing on incorporating resistance bands into your strength workouts. Again, these bands are incredibly versatile and will add an extra element to your training. Compared with free weights, they place your muscles under constant tension. This requires a greater activation of stabilising muscles and greatly enhances the control of your movements. This session focuses on upper body exercises, which many runners and cyclists may neglect as upper body strength doesn't initially seem required for performance. However, runners will find a strengthened upper body supports the movement and coordination of each step, making them more efficient. And cyclists will develop a stiffer midsection, providing a more efficient power output through each pedal. The exercises here are great for supporting and developing strength around the shoulder. For swimmers this is hugely beneficial as most swimming injuries occur at the shoulder due to the repetitive motion. Therefore implementing these exercises are hugely beneficial for developing strength and reducing the risk of injury.

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This week CX Ubertalent Cameron mason (Trinity Racing) drop in for a chat.

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This weeks session focuses primarily on resistance bands. These are a great alternative to machine or free weights and can provide another element to your resistance training.

Similar to last weeks session, this workout uses very little equipment so you can easily implement it at home. First of, we have included some mobility work in this session.

We have another workout for you guys to try at home. This one uses very little equipment so it is perfect if you're struggling to find ideas for strength training without the use of dumbbells or kettlebells.

Just like with resistance training, jumping form and technique are key for progression and injury prevention. Allow yourself time to recover so you can perform each jump at full capacity.

Now that we are in lockdown it gives us a great opportunity to implement some strength and conditioning into our training. I’m sure most of you are still maintaining a very high training volume but may be finding it difficult to introduce or implement strength training into your programs.