by Mike Hermanson | Jul 5, 2018 | Progressive Endurance
This article may cause you to rethink your training zones as a triathlete. Relatively recently, Dr. Andrew Coggan (the guru of bike power meters) came up with some new training zones to replace the original zones he had created several years ago. The original zones...
by Mike Hermanson | Jul 1, 2018 | Progressive Endurance
The last weekend on June, Isaac raced in the elite AG division at the Dam Tri in Pennsylvania Since there isn’t ever really any useful data in the swim portion of the triathlon other than comparing his time to other competitors (due to variation in course...
by Mike Hermanson | Jun 12, 2018 | Progressive Endurance
You have been training for months and it is finally race week! This means lighter workouts, stretching to stay loose and extra sleep. But what role does nutrition play in the few days leading up to the race? Here are a few nutrition guidelines to follow leading up to...
by Mike Hermanson | Jun 9, 2018 | Progressive Endurance
I remember my first triathlon and the slew of things I brought with me into transition area. I think I literally brought everything that anyone suggested I bring. The two things that still stick out to me as stuff I brought that day that I now I see as totally...
by Mike Hermanson | May 26, 2018 | Progressive Endurance
I copied (with permission) from Jamie’s blog. I was happy to coach him for this race. Here it is: When I met with Mike Hermanson last fall I shared with him my plan to do Chattanooga 70.3 with a goal of five and a half hours. That at the time felt like a pretty...
by Mike Hermanson | May 24, 2018 | Progressive Endurance
Progressive Endurance recently had 4 athletes race 70.3 Chattanooga. All 4 did really well and I’m proud of all them. I wanted to take a few minutes to break down what I look at when an athlete is getting ready to race and a breakdown of their bike power files...
by Mike Hermanson | May 22, 2018 | Progressive Endurance
Overtraining is something that we are all guilty of at some point. I know that it happens to me a couple times a year and I’ve seen it happen to several people while training for their races, especially Iron distance racing. With the Ironman distance racing just...
by Mike Hermanson | May 22, 2018 | Progressive Endurance
A short time ago, athletes gathered in Louisville for another Ironman race. I had three athletes racing in midst of a little over 2500 athletes. I wanted to take time to publish an analysis of the power data from the bike and break it down so you can learn better...
by Mike Hermanson | May 22, 2018 | Progressive Endurance
rogressive Endurance recently had 4 athletes take part in the Ironman 70.3 Ohio. They all did really well in this event, but I wanted to highlight two of them because they executed the bike portion of the race extremely well which set them up for a great run and...
by Mike Hermanson | May 22, 2018 | Progressive Endurance
One of the things I feel that I do differently at Progressive Endurance for my athletes is not having them run nearly as much as they would without guidance and or under the guidance of another triathlon coach. Not one year of coaching has gone by when an athlete...