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From Triathlete magazine - the most popular and extensive source for triathlon information - comes this guidebook of weekly training plans for triathletes of all skill levels.
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From the author of Triathlete magazine's popular Complete Triathlon Book comes this follow-up, an invaluable guidebook offering dozens of different training plans for triathletes of all ability and experience levels. The book shows any triathlete how to build up their training every week to hit their ultimate goal, for any distance format - from short sprints and Olympic distance events all the way up to half-Ironman and Ironman races. Good-humoured narrative text accompanies detailed workout schedules and guidelines, as well as weekly goals. 'At-a-glance' and 'week-by-week' breakdown calendars simplify the training process and coaching tips that focus on particular aspects of training appear throughout. In addition the book includes off-season training plans and photo-illustrated supplemental stretching, strength and power exercises.
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27 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Great for plan ideas, not a lot of explanation (I'd rate it a 3.5)
23 July 2007
Format:Paperback
I bought this book for more access to training plans. The variety of plans and number of different fitness levels it offers is great. The key in it is great and fairly user friendly. I found that the plan I chose based on my "fitness level" according to the book seems a little ambitious so I found myself editing a lot of the plan. Also, some of the training plans require knowing where a 5-6% grade hill is that takes at least 1 min to bike up. I don't really know where one is and so that makes some of the workouts unable to do or extremely limiting. I also find some of the swimming workouts get to be very redundant, just adding on one extra hundred yards to the same workout every week. More importantly, I feel that for a beginner swimmer, these workouts require a lot of yardage and perhaps pushing too hard, too soon. I have been a competitive swimmer for 14 years so I can tune these practices to the ability of the swimmer, but if my boyfriend would've picked up the book and tried to do some of these workouts I think he might injure himself (shoulders). Overall, great book to get ideas, but some of the workouts are a little difficult to make it easy to fit into your schedule and location.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Must-have for any aspiring or current triathlete
7 Dec 2008
Format:Paperback
When I was recommended this book, my first instinct was to not buy it because of how detailed the training plans are (I thought I preferred flexibility). I soon found out that there's a good reason why top performance requires discipline. This book is for anyone - beginner to Ironman contender. If you follow the exercises as prescribed, you'll see outstanding results. I shaved my 5k time by 3 minutes in just 4 weeks, learned how to swim well from being an absolute novice, and have gained enormous confidence in a sport that I thought would never be possible. This is a must-have training guide.
16 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Useless on the Kindle
20 May 2010
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
This seems like a great book and I only wish I bought the hard copy. The training schedules make up the majority of the book. The schedules are in table format and are NOT displaying correctly on the Kindle. The messed up display on the kindle is incredibly frustrating and renders the book unusable as you cannot decipher which workout codes go with what days. I am training for an olympic tri and was thrilled to get on a set training schedule. Now, I just feel ripped off. This should never have been offered under the Kindle edition and I am very upset that amazon and the publisher would allow this to happen. Paying $10 is not a lot, but its more than I am comfortable throwing away for nothing. If you want this book DO NOT BUY IT ON THE KINDLE!
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