Each Monday I’ll post a Brick session that you can do to enhance your triathlon and multisport performance.
Brick sessions are a great training session to help develop the neuromuscular system to prepare you for future events (as well as future training sessions). Not only that but you will get a great physiological training stimulus. This session includes efforts at race pace to help prepare for your Olympic Distance Triathlon.
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Brick sessions are a great training session to help develop the neuromuscular system to prepare you for future events (as well as future training sessions). Not only that but you will get a great physiological training stimulus. This session includes a number of VO2 max intensity efforts to stimulate your top end speed, as well as a mile at tempo effort at the end which will help you run qwikly off the bike. This session is great if you’ve got limited time but have a bit more than an hour to dedicate to a Brick session.
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Brick sessions develop your ability to complete multiple disciplines in a single event. Transitioning from one discipline to another requires a number of different things to occur in the body but a key transition is in the blood flow from the cycling muscles to the running muscles. For a swim to bike transition, you also go from a horizontal position to a vertical position with a corresponding increase in blood pressure to ensure the blood can easily get to the brain. This workout is a great race simulation that is perfectly aligned for Ironman 70.3 and Ironman athletes preparing for a key race.
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Matt Mcelroy is an elite, American triathlete with a dozen podiums at World Cup events and a silver medal at the Pan Am Games. This Brick session forces you to focus on both the speed of the transition and the speed out of T2 to start the run well. This session is great for sprint and Olympic distance triathletes.
View More Monday Brick: Matt Mcelroy’s Brick
Lionel Sanders is a top tier Ironman and Ironman 70.3 athlete. He has won the ITU Long Course World Championships, four Ironman titles (as well as two podium finishes at the World Champs), and 31 Ironman 70.3 titles. He is well known for his solid indoor training sessions and for being his own most harshest critic, as well as sharing it all on his social media. This brick workout he has done a week and a half out from Ironman 70.3 Mont-Tremblant. However, for recreational athletes I’d recommend this is done 3-8 weeks out from your key event.
View More Monday Brick: Lionel Sanders’ Pre Ironman 70.3 Mont-Tremblant Brick Session
Dr. Matt Brick was a legendary duathlete in the 1990’s winning the World Championships (using the old 10km run / 60km cycle / 10km run format) in 1991 & also in 1992. Brick’s Brick was a staple of his training back then. It provided a number of great training stimuli as it developed qwik transitions from run to bike and also bike to run, especially from fast running to solid bike, and solid bike to fast running. Matt Brick would do these sessions based at an athletic track and use his bike trainer. This sessions is not only great for duathletes but also Sprint and Olympic Distance Triathletes.
View More Monday Brick: Brick’s Brick
A brick session is a great way to develop your body for transitioning from one discipline to the next. This version is perfect for utilising if you have limited time and is only about an hour in duration. Although specific for duathletes it is also great for short course (sprint and Olympic distance) triathletes.
View More Monday Brick: Tony Zamora’s Run Focus Duathlon Focused Brick Workout
A brick session is a great way to develop your body for transitioning from one discipline to the next. This workout is a great race-pace stimulus and is perfect for Ironman athletes in the final 4-8 weeks of their build up. Sam Laidlow used this session in the lead up to winning the Ironman world champs in Nice, last year.
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A brick session is a great way to develop your body for transitioning from one discipline to the next. This version is perfect for utilising if you have limited time and is only about an hour in duration. Although specific for duathletes it is also great for short course (sprint and Olympic distance) triathletes.
View More Monday Brick: Tony Zamora’s Bike Focus Duathlon Focused Brick Workout
A brick session is a great way to develop your body for the rigours of transitioning from one discipline to the next. This version is designed for Ironman athletes and focus on both the intensity and duration of the event.
View More Monday Brick: Lauren Brandon’s Ironman Brick