JULY TRAINING PROGRAM July Training Program (pdf) One month to go! Well, here you are, it’s almost “go-time” and you are doing great. You have done all the work. You built your foundation over the winter by strengthening your core, working on technique and mental toughness. Then you started training like an endurance athlete, [...]
Fueling before the race Generally speaking, food and swimming often are at odds with one another. Swimming with a belly of full of food often leads to nausea and/or difficulty breathing (as the pressure of food in the stomach can push on the diaphram). Slow breakdown of food can particularly become an issue when pre-race [...]
Run Interval #1 Warm-up: 15-20 mins easy 6xstrides Main-set: 6x3mins (2 mins recovery) Cool-down: 20 mins easy Run Intervals #2 Warm-up: 15-20 mins easy 6xstrides Main-set: 4x5mins (2 mins recovery) Cool-down: 20 mins easy
The example workouts are even shorter intervals with even higher intensity. ———————————————————– Example Workout #1 Warm up Warm-up riding to the bottom of a short steep hill in the small ring and going very easy with only one or two 1 – 2min pickups; still in the small ring. Arive at the hill sweating, but [...]
Aerobic 1 Warm-up: 10×100 (2 swim, 2 pull, 1 kick) with 10-15 sec rest Main: 8×200 @80% on 20 sec rest cool down: 500 mixed Aerobic 2 Warm-up: 800 choice (pull and swim) Main set: 8×50 Hard on 20 sec rest 6×300 on 30 sec rest mod to hard 8×50 All out on 30 sec [...]
Viterra Ironman 70.3 Calgary is proud to announce five charity entry spots for the Calgary 70.3 half-Ironman. The proceeds of these entries are going to support that Jason Lapierre Scholarship fund at the University of Calgary. On July 19th 2006 we of lost a very good friend when Jason Lapierre was hit by a car [...]
This is a compilation of a number of previous posts… Compression clothing….. There is a lot of talk about it. Does it improve performance? Does it improve recovery? or Does it just look dumb? When I spoke to Torbjørn Sindballe at Interbike in Las Vegas in September 2007, he said that he had everything dialed in [...]
