Articles that are of interest and benefit for people training for triathlons
Spending time focusing on your technique and enhancing specific aspects of your stroke will allow you to swim faster for the same energy expenditure, or swim at your normal pace for less energy expenditure. This will allow you to finish the swim fresher for the remaining legs of the triathlon. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their sustained speed.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Marc Evans’ Recreational Ironman Athlete Workout #10
Meb Keflezighi is a legendary runner. On top of his marathon success, Meb has a ½ Marathon PB of 1:01:00. This workout has a variety of speeds to build not only speed but also endurance, teaching the body to build pace throughout the workout and then repeat it after a short break. Although this session targets half marathon events specifically, it is also of benefit for runners and triathletes preparing for events up to the full marathon distance.
View More Friday Fartlek Run: Meb’s Half Marathon Session #2
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. Completing this session intelligently will see great improvements in your fitness. This session is great for triathletes, road cyclists, and mountain bikers.
View More Wednesday Windtrainer Workout: Jesper Medhus’ Avoid Failure Training
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 fast. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their sustained speed.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Sara’s September Session
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.
View More Friday Fartlek Run – Scott Defilippis’ 70.3 Fartlek A
Pyramid intervals are a great way to expose your body to a range of training stimuli and intensities. This version is no exception. This session is great for triathletes, road cyclists, and mountain bikers.
View More Wednesday Windtrainer Workout: UltraFit’s Pyramid Intervals
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 fast. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their sustained speed.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Gale Bernhardt’s Endurance 14 Workout
Meb Keflezighi is a legendary runner. On top of his marathon success, Meb has a 10,000m PB of 27:13.98. This workout has a variety of speeds to build not only speed but also endurance, teaching the body to build pace throughout the workout and then repeat it after a short break. This session is great for runners up to a half marathon, as well as triathletes.
View More Friday Fartlek Run: Meb’s 10km Session #2
This session is very time effective and packs a lot of VO2 Max intervals into an hour. It has been described as super-hard and is very effective in boosting your VO2 Max. This session is great for triathletes, road cyclists, and mountain bikers.
View More Wednesday Windtrainer Workout: Jesper Medhus’ Time Effective VO2 Max Intervals
Mixed sets with a variety of speeds will allow you to develop your top-end speed, as well as your threshold speed. This is a great session for open-water swimmers and triathletes who compete over longer distances.
View More Saturday Swim Session – The Swim Academy Session #5