Sprints are a great way to build leg strength and power generation. This is great for triathletes, road cyclists, and mountain bikers.
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Category: Triathlon Training
Articles that are of interest and benefit for people training for triathlons
Saturday Swim Session: Hansen & Hansen’s Distance Free 4
Endurance is a critical component of fitness for triathletes and long distance open water swimmers. The reps within this session involve a range of paces to develop the skill and mindset to finish an open water swim or swim leg of a triathlon with stamina. There are some progressive paces used to build your fitness. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their sustained speed.
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Friday Fartlek Run – Scott Defilippis’ 70.3 Build Run B
This session was designed for triathletes to finish strong in the run leg of an Ironman 70.3 event but will be of equal benefit for athletes running as short as 5km to develop tolerance to lactic acid.
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Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: Jesper Medhus’ Day 11 Session
Developing your VO2 max without overdoing things will give great fitness benefits, but doing too many intervals at high intensity will force the body to recover, limiting and restricting further fitness gains. This session is great for triathletes, road cyclists, and mountain bikers.
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Saturday Swim Session: Marc Evans’ Recreational Ironman Athlete Workout #4
A large number of shorter reps interspaced with short Rest Intervals (RI) and then combined with longer sustained efforts are effective for building stamina and endurance. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their stamina and endurance.
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Friday Fartlek Run – 4 sets 5x 30-20-10
This workout came from some research published in the Journal of Applied Physiology. The research showed that experienced runners improved their 5km time by 4% over 7 weeks. This session is great for runners from 5km to 10km, especially triathletes.
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Saturday Swim Session: Hansen & Hansen’s Distance Free 3
Endurance is a critical component of fitness for triathletes and long distance open water swimmers. The reps within this session build your pace to develop the skill and mindset to finish an open water swim or swim leg of a triathlon with stamina. There are some progressive paces used to build your fitness. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their sustained speed.
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Friday Fartlek Run – Scott Defilippis’ 70.3 Fartlek C
This session was designed for triathletes to finish strong in the run leg of an Ironman 70.3 event but will be of equal benefit for athletes running a half marathon through to a marathon to develop pace familiarity.
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Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: Jesper Medhus’ More Active Recovery
Developing your VO2 max without overdoing things will give great fitness benefits, but doing too many intervals at high intensity will force the body to recover, limiting and restricting further fitness gains. This session has minimal work at max intensity, so it gives a short stimulus, and can be done with limited time. This session is great for triathletes, road cyclists, and mountain bikers.
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Saturday Swim Session: Marc Evans’ Recreational Ironman Athlete Workout #5
During an open-water swim whether it’s in an Ironman, triathlon or just a swim (without the bike and run following), you are likely to need to utilise different paces (particularly near the start and end of the swim leg). This session has a range of different distance reps, with different Rest Intervals (RI) to develop different speed/stamina related fitness goals. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their sustained speed.
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