Ironman 70.3 Brick

Monday Brick: Mike Ricci’s Ultimate Full-Distance Triathlon Brick Workout

Brick sessions develop your ability to complete multiple disciplines in a single event. Transitioning from one discipline to another requires a number of different things to occur in the body but a key transition is in the blood flow from the cycling muscles to the running muscles. For a swim to bike transition, you also go from a horizontal position to a vertical position with a corresponding increase in blood pressure to ensure the blood can easily get to the brain. This workout is a great race simulation that is perfectly aligned for Ironman 70.3 and Ironman athletes preparing for a key race.

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Uploading metrics Into TrainingPeaks

To give your coach a greater insight into your fatigue levels and to assist to monitor your recovery, loading daily metrics such as Resting HR, HRV, Sleep quality and quantity into TrainingPeaks can be very valuable. Especially when things don’t go smoothly in your training, having this data to further analyse can help shed light on the situation.

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Brick

Monday’s Brick: Heather Blackmon’s Olympic Brick

A brick session is a great way to develop your body for the rigours of transitioning from one discipline to the next. This session comes from a triathlon legend Mark Allen and is great for sprint and Olympic distance triathletes.

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The Runner's Edge

Matt Fitzgerald’s High Tech Periodisation for a Runner’s Edge

Matt Fitzgerald has written numerous books around enhancing performance for both runners and triathletes. In his The Runner’s Edge book that he wrote with Stephen McGregor he describes using TrainingPeak’s Performance Management Chart (PMC) to manage periodisation and also optimise performance.

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