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Off Season: Good and Bad Time Investment for Triathlon

  • 23-09-2010 07:33PM
    #1
    shg101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 155 ✭✭


    Haven't seen it posted already, apologies if it has. The bit about Return on Investment makes sense, not sure about the rest...

    From http://www.trifuel.com/training/triathlon-training/the-off-season-and-the-self-coached-athlete-part-ii-the-time-investment--

    Before you ride 6hrs on a Sunday, or invest 2hrs of training and admin time in a 1hr master's swim session or weightroom visit, or drop $$$$ on a carbon aero widget, just ask yourself "what is this time or money investment going to get me on race day?" Compare ROI's between investment choices and make good decisions.
    So how should you invest your limited training time and triathlon budget? In our experience, as professional Ironman coaches coaching a team of age groupers just like you:
    High ROI Investments:
    • 45-90 minutes of hard interval training per week, on the bike.
    • Well planned tempo paced running intervals
    • Running frequency
    • 1-on-1 swim lessons, especially with underwater video
    • Training with pace (ie, purchasing a GPS or training on a measured run course)
    • Aero helmet
    • Training with power
    • Bike fit
    Low ROI Investments:
    • Weight training
    • Swimming year round
    • Race wheels, especially a rear disk
    • Easy cycling volume
    • LSD running, to the exclusion of tempo work
    <SNIP>

    So, let's combine our discussions from Part I and Part II to create our Off Season training guidance for you:
    1. The Off Season is best time of the year to make yourself significantly faster:
    • A moderate amount of get-faster training will make you significantly faster on race day (ie, high ROI)
    • There is no competing requirement to also build endurance for your goal race distance. You can separate FAST from FAR, freeing up recovery resources to make you much, much faster.
    2. Your Off Season training should be extremely low volume:
    • Off Season training time is more expensive than In Season time, demanding you spend less of it on high ROI activities.
    • As an age grouper with limited time available, low volume in the Off Season is just the right thing to do, for your head, your lifestyle, and your family.


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