Articles that are of interest and benefit for people training for triathlons
The ability to swim at and maintain your threshold pace is a critical component of fitness for triathletes and long-distance open water swimmers. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their top-end speed.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Triathlon Plus Beginners Session 1
Race pace for events longer than half marathon distance for most athletes aren’t run at threshold pace but instead a touch lower with large portions of the event done at Level III. It’s important to expose the body to training at this level of intensity. This is a great workout for someone training for a half to a full marathon (whether part of an Ironman or 70.3).
View More Friday Fartlek Run: Steady Plus 35min
Swim Run Bricks are a great tool to combine swimming and running within a single workout. They are great for both triathletes and aquathon athletes.
View More Monday Brick: Myers & Allen’s Swim Run Brick #1
Doing repeated short bouts of exercise at very high intensity develops a number of physiological systems in the body. Predominantly it provides a great training stimulus for the neuromuscular system. Although not specific to endurance events, training the neuromuscular system can bring on your fitness very quickly and is still a massive benefit for endurance athletes especially early in the season or if you are unfit. This workout can be done by beginners or experienced cyclists alike because a max sprint is all about your level of effort and is likely to be different from another rider.
View More Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: Martin Gibala Intervals XIII
Building your ability to sustain your threshold pace in a swim is an important capability for triathletes and open water swimmers. These sessions further develops that ability and will benefit triathletes of all distances, as well as other open water swimmers.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Julie’s Sets of Hundreds
Running in hills develops leg strength as well as the strength of the tendons and ligaments around the knee and ankle. Developing leg strength is important, as it makes for a more powerful contraction of the leg muscles to propel you forward faster. Including hills regularly, particularly early in your build-up will see great dividends in the improvement of your running. This workout is great to include early in your build-up to develop leg strength.
View More Friday Fartlek Run: Lance Watson’s Hill Reps B
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 perfect for utilising if you have limited time and is under an hour in duration.
View More Monday Brick: Triathlon Taren’s Basic Brick Sequence C
Immerse yourself in this FTP-focused session. Allow this 60-minute journey to pull out your strengths and trim away your weaknesses. Stay chilled – after today, your FTP game shall never be the same. This is a great workout for all cyclists to do when short on time and want to improve their Functional Threshold Power (FTP).
View More Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: Flourish in the FTP Finesse by Tyler
Building your ability to sustain your threshold pace in a swim is an important capability for triathletes and open-water swimmers. This session will benefit triathletes of all distances, particularly Ironman 70.3 and Olympic distance triathletes, as well as other open-water swimmers.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Lance Watson’s Ironman 70.3 Race Intensity Workout
Spending time running at or near your threshold pace will develop your ability to sustain a fast past and also build your tolerance to lactic acid. This session is great for all runners and triathletes. 10km runners will benefit from this style of session as it simulates race effort. Longer distance runners even including ultra-runners will also benefit as your effort will build to this intensity on long sustained climbs.
View More Friday Fartlek Run: 3x 8min Threshold Runs