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...
by Mike Hermanson | May 22, 2018 | Progressive Endurance
Strength training claims to have all sorts of benefits for endurance athletes. However, if you are like me, you really despise the gym for several reasons… like being the scrawniest guy in the room and/or because some the “meat heads” in the gym monopolize a single...
by Mike Hermanson | May 22, 2018 | Progressive Endurance
Over the 4 years I have been coaching, it has surprised me how many triathletes find their preferred cadence in the 70’s and 80’s. Some people are able to adapt quickly to the suggestion of cadence in the 90’s, others have tried and made progress much slower, while...
by Mike Hermanson | May 22, 2018 | Progressive Endurance
Here at Progressive Endurance, I am all about measuring fitness gains and adjusting training zones accordingly for each athlete to get the most out of each individual. If you were to read any number of fitness articles on testing zones, they will say to retest every...
by Chris Shannon | May 22, 2018 | Progressive Endurance
The other day I was riding my bike through the park and I noticed there were a lot of runners running with poor form. The easiest thing to notice when passing by quickly on the bike is how people hold and swing their arms. It appeared to me that they were working...
