Articles that are of interest and benefit for people training for triathlons
Spending time riding at your Threshold will enhance your ability to ride at Threshold. It will allow you to tolerate lactic acid, clearing it more effectively, lifting your Functional Threshold Power (FTP) and also moving your Anaerobic Threshold deflection point to the right. Both these things mean you will be a fitter more effective cyclist. This workout will benefit all cyclists – road, mountain bikers and triathletes.
View More Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: 4x 8min Threshold Intervals
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.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Steve Tarpinian’s Olympic Tri Main Set 2v
Spending time running at your Threshold intensity will help develop your ability to sustain your speed. This is essential for 10km events and also very important for fast half marathons. This workout has you pushing your intensity with minimal rest.
View More Friday Fartlek Run: 6x 8min Threshold Run Intervals
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GeneralDoing 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 XXV
The ability to swim at and maintain your threshold pace is a critical component of fitness for triathletes and long-distance open water swimmers. This session mixes faster reps and balances it with continuous swimming mixed with kick. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their steady state speed.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Triathlon Plus Beginners Session 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.
View More Friday Fartlek Run: Garmin’s Recommended Threshold Run #2
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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 to help prepare for your Olympic Distance Triathlon.
View More Monday Brick: Runner’s World Olympic Triathlon Brick #4