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Preparing your body for the intensity that will be replicated and sustained during an event is an essential part of training. This session is great for triathletes, and road cyclists. It can also be beneficial for mountain bikers, especially for events that are about an hour in duration such as a 40km Time Trial or the bike leg of an Olympic Distance Triathlon.
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Building your ability to sustain your threshold pace in a swim is an important capability for triathletes and open-water swimmers. These sessions further develop that ability by progressing your fitness by completing reps at a fast pace that you can sustain. This session will benefit triathletes of all distances, as well as other open-water swimmers.
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Testing yourself with a session that provides minimal rest is a great way to put yourself under pressure. This session is designed to teach your body to run fast when tired and is great for 5km runners and sprint distance triathletes.
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The use of Brick sessions within your training is essential for development especially for short and fast sprint distance triathlons. Torsten Abel goes against convention, but one thing that isn’t against convention is the intensity that this brick is done at. This will help you build speed at your top end race speed.
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Short bursts of high intensity riding can enhance your VO2 max. This is the research behind the Martin Gibala series of workouts. With boosted VO2 max, your Functional Threshold Power (FTP) will also increase proportionately. This workout will benefit all endurance cyclists – road, mountain bikers and triathletes.
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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.
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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.
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Brick sessions are a great training session to help develop your anaerobic capacity system on the bike 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 aerobic run and it is perfect to build your fitness for sprint and Olympic Distance Triathlons.
View More Monday’s Brick: Chris Foster’s Brick 8
Spending time at an intensity you can sustain with a short Rest Interval (RI) can help develop your threshold capability. This workout takes things a bit further, stepping the intensity up each set without altering the Rest Interval (RI), making the workout progressively harder. This session is great for all cyclists and triathletes who have limited time to train.
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