Past Articles:5 Triathlon Mistakes That Add Seconds to Your TimeWinning a triathlon?or even just edging out a few more people in your age group?isn't always about swimming, biking, and running faster. Ranking higher can be as simple as fixing the little errors that allow time to "leak" out of your race.
Read it Here! 3 Steps to a Panic-Free Triathlon Swim StartThe swim start can be a pretty scary part of any triathlon and with good reason. If you're like most triathletes then your swim training is primarily focused on improving your freestyle swim stroke. One key aspect to an efficient freestyle stroke is to minimize drag by looking down and slightly forward while you swim.
So what can you do to keep the swim start from ruining your big day? The number one thing you can do is come prepared. This article's going to cover three key areas to help focus your swim training so you can enjoy your day from the moment the gun goes off. Read it Here! |
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5 Tips for Superhuman Transitions
As triathletes, we have a similar need for quick changes, though not necessarily from the confines of a phone booth. After all, finish time does not just include an athlete's cumulative swim, bike and run splits, it also includes the time it takes to transition from one sport to another. These time segments are aptly named transition 1 and transition 2, or T1 and T2 if you’re conserving energy for race day.
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Why You Should Ditch the Tunes While Training
There's lots of debate out there about whether or not you should listen to music while training.Some people use their workouts and runs as a stress release, a chance to enjoy the surrounding sounds of nature. Others need Justin Bieber or Kanye West blasting in their ears to make it through the next mile.
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The 6 Keys To Being Awesome At Everything
If you want to be really good at something, it's going to involve relentlessly pushing past your comfort zone, along with frustration, struggle, setbacks and failures. That's true as long as you want to continue to improve, or even maintain a high level of excellence. The reward is that being really good at something you've earned through your own hard work can be immensely satisfying.
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5 Bad Running Habits and How To Break Them
Little running habits—that you don’t even realize you have—can cost you a lot of energy and keep you from running faster. Ignoring them is like driving down the highway with a tarp on top of your car—when the tarp has a loose corner. The tarp resistance can cause your fuel economy to dip—and your energy and enthusiasm for the trip can go with it
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4 Ways to Train Smart
As amateur athletes, it’s natural to assume that more hours spent in the pool, and on the bike or running path is the recipe to make you fitter and faster. However, professional endurance athletes and coaches know what really matters. It’s not just how much you train, but how you do it.
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Eat to Sleep Better This Race Season
With spring race season right around the corner, most busy athletes are logging extra miles at the track, more hours at the gym, and working out longer and harder to gear up for their first big race. It’s a time when sleep—and plenty of it—becomes increasingly important in an athlete’s life.
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Top 9 Training and Racing Tips From Triathlon Experts
Remember that when you commit yourself to a new passion, a new sport, a new pursuit, that you must begin with an open mind and an eagerness to learn from others. You must be students of your sport or you risk holding yourself back. As the great Bruce Lee said, "In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup."
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The 4 Rules of Ironman Training
If you've been bitten by the triathlon bug chances are you'll want to go long and race your first half- and full-distance IM.
Here are a few tips for any triathlete who wants to go long and step up to the half and full-IM distance.
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Here are a few tips for any triathlete who wants to go long and step up to the half and full-IM distance.
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Six Common Swimming Myths (And How To Avoid Them)
There are many things to consider when training for the swim leg of a triathlon. Should you always train with a pull buoy? Should you hold your breath so much? Are kick sets important? Here are six things to keep in mind when in the water.
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Six Steps to an Awesome Triathlon
As we head into race season, we are often very focused on our training preparation for our upcoming race. But triathlons are complicated beasts, and the more planning and preparation you put into all aspects involved in racing, the better. Logistics such as travel, lodging, specific race logistics and your specific race plan should be attended to in a structured manner. If you don’t take care of the details, you could be left in a bit of a panic on race weekend, or worse, race morning. Here are six tips to make sure that doesn’t happen to you.
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9 Ways To Fartlek
If you’re getting bored with your predictable track sessions, it’s time you mixed it up with a fartlek workout—a creative, less-structured form of interval training. Fartlek, which means “speed play” in Swedish, involves varying the intensity to teach your body to recover quickly, no matter what level you’re at. The following workouts can all be done in 60 minutes or less, including a 10-minute easy warm-up.
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Overtraining: Why It Happens, How To Spot It & How To Dig Yourself Out
Overtraining. It’s a word that strikes fear into the hearts of runners everywhere. Researchers estimate that 61% of all serious runners will go through a period of overtraining at least once in their running career. That’s not an encouraging statistic when you’re pushing the limits to reach your goals.
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2 Rules for Building Your Running Base
Many athletes are beginning to plan the season’s races and goals. No matter the goals you may have for the upcoming triathlon season, one thing can be certain: improving your running base will help you to improve your overall triathlon performance.
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Swim Speed Series: Keep Your Head Down
A proper head position means you’re working less to move forward faster.Just like in golf, there’s a temptation in swimming to look up. In fact, 95 percent of the swimmers who come to train with me—from beginners to Olympic hopefuls—hold their heads too high in the water in freestyle, as well as in backstroke, breaststroke and fly.
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Periodization: The 4 Phases of Training
Have you ever heard that you need to “periodize” your triathlon training, or your training plan needs to utilize periodization principles? What does that mean?
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Planning to Peak.
It’s the officially the beginning of winter, and you are probably resolved to start training for the upcoming season. But we are all human, and it is sometimes difficult to get the momentum going. Have faith ... it will start coming together. Sporadic sessions will become more consistent, the flab will start to disappear. Times will come down. Best of all, it’s not too late to lay down the work for a great season!
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4 Fun Cold-Weather Cardio Workouts
When the temperature outside begins to drop a triathlete has three options: Layer up; pack it in until spring; or hit the treadmill and indoor trainer.
Thankfully, there are more effective ways to train during the winter months that don't put you at risk for frostbite, weight gain or social isolation.
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Thankfully, there are more effective ways to train during the winter months that don't put you at risk for frostbite, weight gain or social isolation.
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Rest and Relaxation
Take time off after the season is over? Here is what Ultra-marathoner Scott Jurek has to say
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Strength Training is Key
Enjoy this article about strength training and it benifits for triathletes.
I have a few questions for you.
Are you over 35 years of age? Do you have a limited amount of training time? Do you want to reverse—or at least slow down—as many aspects of the aging process as possible? Are you an endurance athlete looking for an extra edge? Do you want to boost power, reduce fatigue, guard against injury and increase your late-race energy reserves?
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I have a few questions for you.
Are you over 35 years of age? Do you have a limited amount of training time? Do you want to reverse—or at least slow down—as many aspects of the aging process as possible? Are you an endurance athlete looking for an extra edge? Do you want to boost power, reduce fatigue, guard against injury and increase your late-race energy reserves?
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