Prerana Sravan Kumar is not your everyday 16-year-old. The sprightly Bengaluru girl has made India proud at the international stage by winning a medal in the coveted Hong Kong Asian Youth Triathlon Championship. The talented athlete first stole the limelight winning the gold in the BMF Triathlon Sprint Distance Triathlon in 2021 before she made […]
Triathlon comes with three disciplines, all which have their own set of prevalent injuries—giving you even more opportunities to be sidelined. No athlete is immune; while some injuries are more common in beginners, many occur with overuse to areas of the body that are constantly working in the sport (protect those knees!). There are many reasons […]
How to swim smarter to conserve energy for the bike and run Swimming faster must necessarily begin with swimming smarter. As with most endeavors—physical or otherwise—there’s a limit to progress that can be made without continual improvement in technique. When it comes to triathlon, poor technique in swimming has the added consequence of negatively affecting […]
For the better part of a decade, researchers have been showing that dynamic stretching beats static stretching for pre-workout performance—research that began in the late ‘90s and early ‘00s when scientists started to notice that passive or static stretching prior to competition reduced power, force, and performance. Rather than holding a stretch without moving, dynamic […]