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Brick sessions are a great training session to help develop the neuromuscular system to prepare you for future events (as well as future training sessions). Not only that but you will get a great physiological training stimulus. This session is great for enhancing both duathlon and triathlon performance with Ironman/Ironman 70.3 race pace effort.
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This is a smart trainer session that is great for developing your specific bike strength and power. It is perfect for triathletes, road cyclists, and mountain bikers alike.
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The ability to sustain repeated efforts with short rest periods will develop your threshold swimming ability. Although not pure speed this is a building block that will help you be a faster swimmer later in the season. This workout is of benefit early in a build up for swimmers trying to optimise their pure speed, as well as for triathletes and open water swimmers later in their build up as it enhances their threshold pace.
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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.
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Building skills and practicing race pace are both important skills to ensure optimal race performance. This session incorporates these skills consistently through the session. This session will benefit longer distance triathletes (Ironman and Ironman 70.3), as well as other open-water swimmers.
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This workout improves your ability to sustain high intensity efforts for longer. This session is great for runner’s of all abilities, and is particularly effective for 10km and half marathon runners and triathletes.
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Brick sessions are a great training session to help develop the neuromuscular system to prepare you for future events (as well as future training sessions). Not only that but you will get a great physiological training stimulus. This session includes efforts at race pace (and above) to help prepare for your next full Ironman Distance Triathlon.
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