Category: Triathlon Training

Articles that are of interest and benefit for people training for triathlons

Saturday Swim Session: Steve Tarpinian’s Sprint Tri Main Set 2vi

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 the intensity as you work through the workout, but maintaining the Rest Interval (RI). 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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Friday Fartlek Run: Gareth’s Tempo Run A

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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Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: Martin Gibala Intervals XXVIII

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.

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Saturday Swim Sessions: Richard Murray’s Chojo Inspired Swim Set

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 at a fast pace that you can sustain. This session will benefit triathletes of all distances, as well as other open-water swimmers.

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Friday Fartlek Run: Garmin’s Recommended Threshold Run #5

This workout is suggested to increase your high aerobic load. This session is great for runner’s of all abilities, and is particularly effective for 5km and 10km runners and triathletes.

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Dave Scott’s Advanced HFH Brick #4

Monday’s Brick: Dave Scott’s Advanced HFH Brick #4

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 a number of threshold intensity efforts to stimulate your top end speed, as well as as some time at threshold effort at the end of each segment. This session is a great session for anyone preparing for a Olympic Distance or Ironman 70.3 Triathlon.

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Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: Hill Charges To Climb Stronger III 

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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Saturday Swim Session: Steve Tarpinian’s Olympic Tri Main Set 2vi

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 at a fast pace that you can sustain. This session will benefit triathletes of all distances, as well as other open-water swimmers.

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Friday Fartlek Run: Gareth’s Progressive Run

This session is great for breaking up a steady run and giving you exposure to a range of training paces. As the fatigue levels get greater in your legs, you need to push harder at higher intensities. However there is still sufficient rest after each rep. 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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