Category: Triathlon Training

Articles that are of interest and benefit for people training for triathlons

Saturday Swim Session: 220’s Ironman Swim Pacing

Building skills and practicing race pace are both important skills to ensure optimal race performance. This session incorporates these skills consistently through the session. This session will benefit longer distance triathletes (Ironman and Ironman 70.3), as well as other open-water swimmers.

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Friday Fartlek Run: Garmin’s Recommended Threshold Run #6

This workout improves your ability to sustain high intensity efforts for longer. This session is great for runner’s of all abilities, and is particularly effective for 10km and half marathon runners and triathletes.

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Monday’s Brick: Steve McKenna’s Hardest Ironman Brick Session

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 (and above) to help prepare for your next full Ironman Distance Triathlon.

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Saturday Swim Session: Steve Tarpinian’s Sprint Tri Main Set 2vi

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 the intensity as you work through the workout, but maintaining the Rest Interval (RI). The session gets tougher, as you work through it. This session will benefit triathletes of all distances, as well as other open-water swimmers.

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Friday Fartlek Run: Gareth’s Tempo Run A

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.

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Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: Martin Gibala Intervals XXVIII

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 cyclist alike, because a max sprint is all about your level of effort and is likely to be different from another rider.

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Saturday Swim Sessions: Richard Murray’s Chojo Inspired Swim Set

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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Friday Fartlek Run: Garmin’s Recommended Threshold Run #5

This workout is suggested to increase your high aerobic load. This session is great for runner’s of all abilities, and is particularly effective for 5km and 10km runners and triathletes.

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