Articles that are of interest and benefit for people training for triathlons
With a series of 50’s done with minimal rest, you get a great aerobic training stimulus. As you work through this session you get more rest and can apply more speed to the reps and your 50m times should get faster. This session is perfect for Ironman and Olympic distance triathletes or people doing longer Ocean Swims.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Matt Chrabot’s 40x 50m
Developing speed for marathons and longer is important as it can boost your tolerant to lactic acid and help you run faster for longer. This session is great for runners and triathletes running events up to Marathon distance and longer.
View More Friday Fartlek Run: Jerry Snider’s Marathon Mile Repeats
The ability to maintain a steady state high intensity effort. This is the effort that you maintain in a 40km Time Trial or similar. This workout will build your ability to sustain a higher intensity and develop tolerance to lactic acid. This is a perfect workout for for all cyclists including mountain bikers and triathletes.
View More Wednesday Windtrainer Workout: Cyclist.co.uk’s Sweetspot Session
100’s are such a great swim distance especially if you keep the Rest Interval short and sweet. This session is perfect for Ironman and Olympic distance triathletes or people doing longer Ocean Swims.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Death By 100’s
Building your VO2 Max will develop your faster running.. This session is great for runners and triathletes running events up to Half Marathon and by especially 5-10km events.
View More Friday Fartlek Run: Vicky Holland’s Key Run Set
This session focuses and builds your ability to maintain a high steady pace effort. This is a perfect workout for for all cyclists including mountain bikers and triathletes.
View More Wednesday Windtrainer Workout: Cycling Weekly’s Threshold Session
This session is named because it has EVERYTHING in it. A big mix of intensity and the inclusion of other strokes. Triathletes need the benefit of mixing in various intensities and other strokes to develop their allround swimming skills. This session is perfect for Ironman and Olympic distance triathletes or people doing longer Ocean Swims.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Swiss Army Set
Building your VO2 Max will develop your faster running.. This session is great for runners and triathletes running events up to Half Marathon and by especially 5-10km events.
View More Friday Fartlek Run: EKL’s 10K Race Pace Work
Building your top end intensity is important for cyclist to help punch away from a bunch and create a breakaway or to sprint for the line. This is a perfect workout for for all cyclists especially road cyclists and mountain bikers but triathlete can also gain value form this session especially in the off season.
View More Wednesday Windtrainer Workout: Cycling Weekly’s Sprint Session
Within this session I’ve included some longer reps for stamina and some shorter reps to build your sprint speed. This session is perfect for Ironman and Olympic distance triathletes or people doing longer Ocean Swims.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Sprints & Stamina