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The Weihai Wave
We have been very lucky at Trisutto to experience some great sporting moments. However, the overwhelming emotion after a huge build-up and win can often be one of sheer relief. Breakthrough races like this past weekend in Weihai can feel different. There is a joy in seeing an athlete finally produce in competition what you have been watching daily in training and show the world a new destiny. Alanis Siffert winning Challenge Roth a few weeks ago was one of those days. Individ


Advice or Expertise?
There is an enormous difference between knowing about training and knowing how to coach an athlete.
How do you separate genuine coaching expertise from the noise?


The "Good Swimmer" Trap
The "Good Swimmer" Trap - and Why It Might Be Hurting Your Race Listen to Brett break this down — including how Craig Walton produced near-identical swim times but very different race outcomes depending on swim fitness. ▶️ 4-minute audio Most triathlon swim content is aimed at people who learned to swim as adults. But what about those of you who grew up in the water? Swam squad? Maybe competed at a high level? People call you "lucky", but that swim background can be just as


Stop Chasing Sessions. Start Building Weeks.
The athlete who trains intelligently for 90 days will beat the athlete who trains brilliantly for 10.
But it does require patience, structure, and the willingness to trust a process that doesn't always feel like enough in the moment.
However, the compounding effect of many tomorrows is where real performance is actually built.


Don't be a bull in a china shop!
Many triathletes today rely heavily on data.
They track everything—and naturally ask:
“If I can’t see progress in the numbers day to day, how do I know I’m improving?”


Why Hainan Island?
So what was it like spending two weeks with Brett at the Chinese National Team camp on Hainan Island—often described as China’s Hawaii?


Be Curious
Coaches on deck - Yuxi Training Camp, January 2026 Different country, different language, different culture, yet every day feels very familiar. Two months on deck with Brett in Yuxi, at the Chinese Triathlon Winter Training Base. The training facilities are world class, and their close proximity gives Brett the freedom to structure a program without logistical restriction. It’s an ideal high-performance setup, based at altitude in a warm winter climate. Day-to-Day Structure B


Recognising a Great Coaching Achievement!
It is so refreshing to see one of Coach Cali’s former athletes shed light on what is truly an unheard-of coaching achievement — nearly seven years of work, starting with local village children in Indonesia.


Hurry Slowly – The Secret to Sustainable Triathlon Progress
“Hurry slowly” doesn’t mean doing less. It means training smarter. It’s about developing patiently, session by session, instead of chasing instant results or piling on volume that can’t be sustained. In endurance sport, progress is earned through consistency — not chaos.


Mindfulness and Coaching
Coaching today is far different to what it was thirty years ago. Not so much in the training programs or physiology as they just get re-packaged and presented differently but, in the cohort, we are coaching. Gone are the days of athletes just following the orders of the coach without question. Now it is a more discerning audience who wants to know why?


Communication and Coaching: The science of getting your message across
Society believes that communication is audible - it is anything but.


Uncomplicating the straightforward
Being old has advantages of experience of a time where pseudoscience was non-existent. When eating was just that, not nutrition science....


Understand your life pie
Understand your life pie - the allocation of time to areas of your life, including family, work and your hobby. Our role as coaches is...


COACHING: Ciascun atleta ha bisogno di un suo approccio, atleti diversi richiedono attenzioni divers
(English version available here) Il coaching non è facile da definire perché include molti aspetti. Il coaching trasforma e plasma gli...


10 top tips for preventing injuries
1. Listen to your body I don't know how many times my body was giving me signs and I was getting little niggles, which I often ignored...


J A R - Just Another Race
All Trisutto athletes know of our saying, J A R which refers to: Just Another Race. As we head into another edition of the Hawaii Ironman...


Siri Lindley: On Triathlon
This is an interview I’ve kept from her time as an athlete, which I believe expresses more eloquently than I could how she made it then as a


Learning from the past and applying it to the future
I have just recently read the book by James Clear on “Atomic Habits” and thought that there was some good information that would be...


16 weeks is the magic number
Let me share a secret for our age group followers. Our philosophy is that off a base level of fitness, 16 weeks is the magic number to...


The pitfall of the race calendar
One of the many criticisms levelled at me as a coach, is I try wherever I can to forget all about the race calendar for developing...
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