This is a great session that will develop speed, lifting your threshold pace. Speed work is an important training session for all runners, as well as triathletes, to make you faster.
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Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: Martin Gibala Intervals VIII
Doing repeated short bouts of exercise at very high intensity develops several 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.
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Saturday Swim Session: Enhance Your Threshold Pace
Developing your ability to sustain a higher pace, gives you the ability to build higher speed on top of the speed you can sustain (a great benefit for master’s swimmers). It also gives a great training stimulus to enhance your threshold swimming (a great benefit for triathletes and open-water swimmers). This session is perfect for master’s swimmers as well as open-water swimmers and triathletes.
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Friday Fartlek Run: Tempo Run #2
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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Monday Brick: Triathlon Plus Beginners Sprint Tri Brick #2
A brick session is a great way to develop your body for the rigours of transitioning from one discipline to the next. This brick is great for developing your aerobic base in preparation for your first sprint triathlon.
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Top 10 Brick Workouts of 2023
The most popular workouts on my website over 2023, where predominantly published before 2023, however I only started publishing Brick Sessions in May of last year. So far there are 31 Brick Sessions published in detail for you to include in your training regardless of whether you are a sprint distance athlete through to Ironman. Check them all out as part of the popular Monday Brick series published every Monday.
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Saturday Swim Session: Sprint Training
Sprint Training is the cherry on the top that gives you your race speed. With a periodised training plan, the preceding sessions are all building to this point to maximise and optimise the speed developed in these sessions. This session is perfect for master’s swimmers, although not specifically targeted for triathletes and open water swimmers this session will help sharpen the top-end swim speed.
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Top 10 Swim Workouts of 2023
The most popular workouts on my website over 2023, where predominantly published before 2023, however seven of these workouts were published last year. Some were…
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Friday Fartlek Run: Macca’s 4 Reps
This session is great for improving speed for runners aiming for an event between 5km and a half marathon (and even out to a marathon). It is perfect for road runners, trail runners, and triathletes alike.
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Top 10 Bike Workouts of 2023
The most popular workouts on my website over 2023, where predominantly published before 2023. Some were publish as far back as 2016 (Russian Sprints – it’s such a classic workout) insdie the first year I publishing these workouts to make it easy for my athletes to follow along with. Since then I’ve published over 400 bike workouts as part of my popular Wednesday Windtrainer Workout series that then morphed into Sunday Smart-Trainer Session series, where each Sunday (originally Wednesday) I post a different bike workout.
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