Lionel Sanders is a top tier Ironman and Ironman 70.3 athlete. He has won the ITU Long Course World Championships, four Ironman titles (as well as two podium finishes at the World Champs), and 31 Ironman 70.3 titles. He is well known for his solid indoor training sessions and for being his own most harshest critic, as well as sharing it all on his social media. This brick workout he has done a week and a half out from Ironman 70.3 Mont-Tremblant. However, for recreational athletes I’d recommend this is done 3-8 weeks out from your key event.
View More Monday’s Brick: Lionel Sanders’ Pre Ironman 70.3 Mont-Tremblant Brick Session
Using VO2 Max intervals will increase your aerobic capacity and are of immense benefit to endurance athletes. This session is great for triathletes, road cyclists, and mountain bikers.
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Building your ability to sustain your threshold pace in a swim is an important capability for triathletes and open-water swimmers. These sessions further develop that ability by progressing your fitness by completing reps of different distances at different intensities. The session gets tougher, as you work through it. This session will benefit triathletes of all distances, as well as other open-water swimmers.
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To run a fast 5km, you need to be able sustain effort as close to your VO2 max as possible. This session is great for developing both your VO2 Max and your ability to sustain your effort at it, due to the very short Rest Intervals (RIs) throughout this workout. Whether you are a runner or a triathlete, targeting 5km or something a bit longer, this workout will enhance your VO2 max and make you a faster runner across all distances.
View More Friday Fartlek Run: The Running Channel’s 5km PB Workout III
The brown rice fuels your workouts with quality protein form the chicken to help with recovery. This meal can be made as spicy as you like it, the apple goes great with chicken.
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🚴♂️ 100 Mile Mastery: The 16-Week Challenge 🚴♀️ Are you ready to conquer your first century ride? 🌟 Whether you’re a beginner eager to tackle 100 miles or…
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Dr. Matt Brick was a legendary duathlete in the 1990’s winning the World Championships (using the old 10km run / 60km cycle / 10km run format) in 1991 & also in 1992. Brick’s Brick was a staple of his training back then. It provided a number of great training stimuli as it developed qwik transitions from run to bike and also bike to run, especially from fast running to solid bike, and solid bike to fast running. Matt Brick would do these sessions based at an athletic track and use his bike trainer. This sessions is not only great for duathletes but also Sprint and Olympic Distance Triathletes.
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Doing repeated short bouts of exercise at very high intensity develops a number of 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 cyclist alike, because a max sprint is all about your level of effort and is likely to be different from another rider.
View More Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: Martin Gibala Intervals XIX
Returning to the pool after a period of time off can be daunting, regardless of why you haven’t been swimming. Maybe you’ve been pregnant and have a young child, maybe you’ve been injured and haven’t been able to swim, or maybe your life has got in the way and you haven’t prioritised swimming for a wee while.
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.
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.
View More Friday Fartlek Run: Jamie’s Tempo Run Session A