Articles that are of interest and benefit for people training for triathlons
The purpose of this form, is to assist with your final mental preparation for a triathlon. It will guide you through developing your race plan, as well as assisting you to plan ahead to the what if scenarios that may (but hopefully don’t) unfold for you during the triathlon.
View More Triathlon Self Psych Form
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 includes efforts at both Level IV to give a bit of a pre-fatigue effect before hitting you with some Level V efforts. This session is great for triathletes, road cyclists, and mountain bikers.
View More Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: Jesper Medhus Day 12 Workout
Testing yourself with max efforts is a great way to develop your speed with an appropriate training stimulus. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their speed.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Colin Izzard’s Power Burst Workout
1 kilometre reps are a simple workout that can help both novices and elites.. This session is great for runners from half marathon runners, especially triathletes aiming for an Ironman 70.3.
View More Friday Fartlek Run: Lisa’s 1km Reps
The purpose of this form, is to assist with your final mental preparation for the Coast to Coast. It will guide you through developing your race plan, as well as assisting you to plan ahead to the what if scenarios that may (but hopefully don’t) unfold for you during the Coast to Coast.
View More Ironman Self Psych Form
Sprints are a great way to build leg strength and power generation. This is great for triathletes, road cyclists, and mountain bikers.
View More Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: UltraFit’s Sprints D
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.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Hansen & Hansen’s Distance Free 4
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 Build Run B
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.
View More Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: Jesper Medhus’ Day 11 Session
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.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Marc Evans’ Recreational Ironman Athlete Workout #4