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This is a smarttrainer session that is great for developing your threshold power or intensity. It is perfect for triathletes (Olympic & Ironman 70.3 distance primarily), road cyclists, and mountain bikers alike.
View More Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: Mathew Riccatello’s Threshold A
The opening leg of an Ironman 70.3 is an important part of the event. If you swim well you can set yourself up for a good bike and run. Being able to swim efficiently and smoothly will enable you to stay fresh and get onto the bike in a good position. This series of workouts will set you up for success.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Ironman 70.3 Swim Success – Week 2
Tempo is an intensity that means different things to different athletes and coaches. For me, I define Tempo as an effort comfortably below the Threshold pace. It is the sort of intensity that if you had to you could maintain for a duration longer than a half marathon. It is higher than the aerobic running pace, sort of in the mid-zone between the two levels. Spending more than 15-20 minutes at this intensity, helps the body practice clearing the small amount of lactic acid generated at this pace, without needing to slow down to do so. This is a perfect session for runners and triathletes running events up to full marathons and further.
View More Friday Fartlek Run: Garmin Recommended Tempo Run #4
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 workout develops your bike VO2 max capability, combined with an tempo level run and it is perfect to build your off season fitness for sprint and Olympic Distance Triathlons.
View More Monday’s Brick: Chris Foster’s Brick 5
This is a smarttrainer session that is great for developing your threshold power or intensity. It is perfect for triathletes, road cyclists, and mountain bikers alike.
View More Sunday Smart Trainer Session: Triple Active’s TT Power
This session sees a focus on sustained effort, repeated numerous times with a short rest. This workout is of benefit to all swimmers (including triathletes and open water swimmers – especially short course triathletes).
View More Saturday Swim Session: Swim Speed Improver – Session 06
Running at maximum intensity for about an hour will be done at or just below your threshold pace. When an event is longer than this your race pace will be further below threshold at Tempo pace. The best way to prepare the body to handle this intensity is to spend time running at it. This workout is great to include early in your build-up to expose the body to a slightly higher intensity.
View More Friday Fartlek Run: Gareth’s Reverse Tempo Run C
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 workout is perfect to build your off season fitness for sprint and Olympic Distance Triathlons, as well as Ironman 70.3 events.
View More Monday’s Brick: Gale Bernhardt’s Old School Tempo Brick
This is a smarttrainer session that is great for developing your threshold power or intensity. It is perfect for triathletes (Olympic & Ironman 70.3 distance primarily), road cyclists, and mountain bikers alike.
View More Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: Mathew Riccatello’s Over Unders Minus
Tempo is an intensity that means different things to different athletes and coaches. For me, I define Tempo as an effort comfortably below the Threshold pace. It is the sort of intensity that if you had to you could maintain for a duration longer than a half marathon.A It is higher than the aerobic running pace, sort of in the mid-zone between the two levels. Spending more than 15-20 minutes at this intensity, helps the body practice clearing the small amount of lactic acid generated at this pace, without needing to slow down to do so. This is a perfect session for runners and triathletes running events up to full marathons and further.
View More Friday Fartlek Run: Garmin Recommended Tempo Run #3