Contains techniques for swimming, running and cycling. This book takes things right back to basics with a beginner's plan and diary sections to track progress, and provides tips and advice. It also includes self-help chapters on goal setting and mind games to get readers back on track.
This is a guide to training for and competing in long-distance/Ironman triathlons, one of the world's toughest sporting events. The content is aimed at levels of ability ranging from experienced to professional, and is the ideal guide to training for the most difficult triathlon in the world.
Helps triathletes of various skill levels in their final preparations for race day. This book guides you through the final week before your race, regardless of whether it is your first triathlon or your goal event for the season. It offers tips on preparation, including final workouts, nutrition, equipment selection, and mental rehearsals.
Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned triathlete, training for a Sprint, Olympic, Half-Ironman, or Ironman event, this book offers a complete, step-by-step program that will help you strengthen, tone-up, and both physically and mentally prepare for the
Trizophrenia celebrates the seemingly obsessive-compulsive rituals of the triathlete. Eat, swim, eat, work, eat, run, eat, go to bed early. Get up at dawn and do it all over again. The schedule of a triathlete demands focus and coordination, but with three sports, a job, and a family, it can be a lot to juggle.
Practical, proven ways to get in shape for a grueling race that combines running, swimming, and biking Packed with insider tips, hands-on advice, and proven methods, Triathlon Training For Dummies is an essential guide for anyone who wants to participate and compete in a triathlon.
Celebrates the epic "Hawaii Ironman" with 17 inspiring stories of extreme courage and athleticism. This title includes seventeen stories that allow readers to experience the competition first hand, revealing tremendous athleticism, unbelievable capacity for suffering, and true strength of character.
Containing descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises, this is a comprehensive triathlon-specific training guide. This book takes you from the off-season to the in-season, and is loaded with tips and pointers to help you maximise your training and improve your performance.
Describes how triathlon evolved into the Ironman Challenge. This book discusses gear and specialized equipment and how to tailor training to swimming, cycling and running. It also gives advice on nutrition and diet, handling injuries and, features week-by-week training programmes.
Triathlon is one of the fastest growing participation sports in the UK, attracting sportspeople from a wide range of backgrounds. Triathlon is an easy-to-use and highly effective programme designed to take even the beginner to triathlon success in just 20 weeks.
A guide for multi-sport success. It helps readers learn how to: choose the best equipment for their goals and budget; create triathlon programmes for various distances and events; plan what, how, and when, to eat and drink when training or competing; prevent overtraining and recover from common injuries; and, swim and navigate in open water.
If you're like most endurance athletes, you're concerned about your weight. You know that every extra pound slows you down. This title lets you zero in on your racing weight through improved diet quality, balanced macronutrient levels, proper timing of meals and snacks, appetite management, and training for lean body composition.
A master plan that can guide experienced triathletes through every week of their season. For each phase of training, it lays out the path to success, outlining clear objectives and the guidelines to meet them. It also offers easy modifications to better manage personal limiters and improve performance.
Presents a fast-paced triathlon training programme that delivers competitive speed without the time demands of conventional approaches. This title helps triathletes develop the speed and endurance they need to be competitive in triathlon, from sprint- to half-iron distance races.
Suitable for triathletes, this book empowers triathletes with every detail that they need to consider when planning a season, lining up a week of workouts, and preparing to race. It shows how to precisely gauge intensity with the training technology to maximize form and fitness and reduce fatigue.
Every triathlete wants to be faster and to look faster. The lean physique of successful triathletes invites and inspires everyday athletes to look the part. Looks are an important source of motivation. This title offers a guide for triathletes who want to reduce and manage their weight while living a multidimensional life.
A guide to triathlon success, showing readers how to refine their technique in all three disciplines, choose the right equipment and train with optimal quality and efficiency. There are training programmes for all distances along with advice on nutrition, mental toughness and avoiding injury.
Triathlon is the ultimate endurance challenge, pushing the body to its extreme while giving back a feeling of achievement and reward. This book aims to show newcomers the best ways to try out the sport and, for those already participating, how to achieve their personal best, safely and efficiently.
Okay, you've finished your first short distance triathlon. Now it's time to up the ante and go further and faster. This guide includes longer workouts, balancing work, family and training, adding speed work, recovery and the mental game which are all important to reach the half Ironman distance.
Suitable for those looking to optimise their Ironman training efficiency, this book includes worksheets and checklist that help to organize various aspects of the race preparation. It includes hints and tips to help you keep track of elements crucial to Ironman success, such as fuelling strategies and confidence building.
Guides you through various aspects of improving your technique in all sports. This title addresses such questions as: Do you work harder at improving the times of your best discipline or sacrifice your precious training time on getting your weakest discipline up to scratch? How can you avoid sickness and injury in such a demanding event? and more.
A guide to racing Ironman-distance triathlons. It prepares triathletes, from the working age-grouper to the podium contender, for success in triathlon's ultimate endurance event. It contains sport-specific chapters that outline the stages of development for each of the three disciplines of triathlon and describe drills to improve form.