Wednesday Windtrainer Workout: Zwift Academy Tri 2020 FTP Development

FTP is a key determinant of your ability to maintain a high effort. The short rest of with in this workout doesn’t allow you much recovery and assists to develop your FTP. This session is great for all cyclists including triathletes and mountain bikers.

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Tri Training

Tuesday Training Plan: Triathlon Bike/Run Beginner 16 week programme (currently riding 2hr & running 1hr)

This bike & run programme will see you improve your overall cycling and running fitness in 16 weeks time.
The programme is designed to be conducted in conjunction with a swim programme (available through Qwik Kiwi Coaching or if you are training with your local Master’s or other swim squad).

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Fartlek Workout

Friday Fartlek Run: Kiwi Running Show’s 1 Mile, 400 Split

This is a great session that targets multiple energy systems with reps of a mile distance interspace with 400m reps at a higher intensity. All runners (and triathletes) can benefit from this higher intensity of training, especially atheltes with events between 5 and 10km in distance.

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Windtrainer Session

Wednesday Windtrainer Workout: Zwift Academy Tri 2020 VO2max Short Intervals

Developing your VO2max is a key physiological variable that will determine your capability to perform well in aerobic orientated events. Boosting your VO2max will pay dividends to all cyclists, particularly road cyclists and mountain bikers, but also short course triathletes.

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Fartlek

Friday Fartlek Run: 3-2-1 Hill Reps

Hill reps are a great way to develop specific running strength and enhance your VO2 max and your anaerobic energy system. This is a great session to develop strength for all runners and triathletes upto and longer than marathon distance.

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Zwift Session

Wednesday Windtrainer Workout: Zwift Academy Tri 2020 Aerobic Threshold Development

Riding at a sustained pace below your Threshold is referred to as Tempo training. This session builds 36 minutes of riding at your Tempo intensity into it. This is great for triathletes, especially long course athletes, but also road cyclists and mountain bikers who intend to ride solo to victory.

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Ironman

Science on Sunday: Personal Best Times in an Olympic Distance Triathlon and a Marathon Predict an Ironman Race Time for Recreational Female Triathletes

When an athlete hasn’t done an Ironman event previously what time do you think they can do? Tough questions because they have never done the event before (often they haven’t done something similar) and are stepping into the great unknown. Rüst et al has attempted to answer this for female athletes (who make the bulk of Qwik Kiwi athletes).

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Swim Sessions

Saturday Swim Session: Emma-Kate Lidbury’s Baseline Swim

This baseline session is a good solid session to develop more than just fitness. It is a good benchmark that can be repeated every four to six weeks to measure performance improvement. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their sustained speed.

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