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Triathlon Training Ideas
StewSmith.com First, I am not a tri-athlete, but have trained with bike, swimming and running for over a decade. Here are some ideas to use if you are dabbling in a variety of training methods. In fact, I used workouts similar to triathlon training to prepare for SEAL training many years ago. Changing a football playing, powerlifting body into an endurance athlete took many hours of training and the cross training or bike, run, swim was very beneficial to increasing endurance and preventing injuries. IF you WANT REAL Triathlon training - go to www.davidglover.net - he is a friend of mine who actually WINS races and can help you get to that level. In fact, he wrote a book about completing an Iron-Man Triathlon while working full time. See link below:
Below is a sample triathlon workout, I made for myself a few years ago when working out with some Naval Academy Tri-athletes. If you are considering a triathlon one day, you can use this type of training plan and adjust the distances as needed. With your goals a steady increase in intensity training is recommended with little 2-3 week tapers prior to every race. For the first month, I recommend the following schedule; Swim 3x per week: Two - distance
swim of freestyle 2000m (500m hypoxic thrown in) 300m choice warmup Run 3x per week:
Two short runs of 6 miles / one long run of 10 miles (Saturday) after 20 mile
bike You want to do the BRICKs in Bike – Run order to get
accustomed to the Bike - Run transition… Bike 3x per week: 2 SPIN classes (if available) and / 1-3 long bike ride 20 miles (Saturday) Weights – 3x per week Weights are swimming and bike specific. No leg PT is
needed (YET) due to the SPIN classes and bike build up….Concentrating on arm strength for swimming and lower back strength for long bike
rides, the workouts should go in the following order for the first month:
Enjoy -- Good luck. Keep the sending the emails. I am getting to them one at a time at stew@stewsmith.com .Stew Smith is a former Navy SEAL and fitness author certified as a Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) with the National Strength and Conditioning Association. If you are interested in starting a workout program to create a healthy lifestyle - check out the StewSmith.com Fitness eBook store and the Stew Smith article archive at StewSmith.com. To contact Stew with your comments and questions, e-mail him at stew@stewsmith.com.
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