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"There's no need to leave "Swim Workouts for Triathletes" home as the waterproof pages will survive countless trips to the pool deck." -- "USA Triathlon Life" magazine
""Swim Workouts for Triathletes" is full of workouts that will make it easy to prepare for any race and improve all-around swimming skills." -- "3/GO" magazine
"This book is made to go to the pool." -- "Competitor "magazine
""Swim Workouts for Triathletes" has given me workouts that are perfect for triathlon training in a structure that allows me to match them with my race goals... Exceptionally easy to take straight to the pool." -- TriEssential
"How many triathletes look at the swim as just a giant obstacle course before the real race begins? Gale Bernhardt and Nick Hansen offer a good solution to that problem through the release of the second edition of "Swim Workouts for Triathletes." The book links training objectives with workouts in the water that will drive improved performance at your "A" race this se --This text refers to an alternate Spiral-bound edition.
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These waterproof swim workouts for triathletes and distance swimmers are specially designed for easy reference on the pool deck. More than 60 workouts are divided into 7 different training categories-endurance, speed, form, force, muscular endurance, muscular endurance for longer distances, and anaerobic endurance. All workouts are written so either yards or meters can be used while following the instruction sets. Authors Gale Bernhardt and Nick Hansen also include guidelines on how to use the swim workouts to create a training program for achieving personal fitness goals. Each workout has two main sets to accommodate swimmers of all abilities and their busy schedules. This is the only book of its kind, with clear descriptions of workout codes and drill, instruction for ongoing fitness testing and 10 workouts for Ironman-distance training, and an invaluable companion to any triathlon or swim training program..
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If training for a sprint-distance triathlon, swim 3 x 100s with twenty-second rests between each one. Read the first page
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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Perfect Pool-side companion,
By J E HOTCHKISS (Raynes Park, London United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Workouts in a Binder: Swim Workouts for Triathletes (Spiral-bound)
If like me and many other Triathletes, you find the swimming the hardest part of the race, let alone all the training you want to do, then this book is definitely for you.I picked it up in the US before I could hold of it here and have been using it for about 3 months now. It doesn’t include any tips on tech. or too much depth on what sessions to do, when and how many etc, but other books (such as the Triathletes Training Bible cover this amply). However, it does contain more sessions that you could shake your fins at. This includes a wide variety of types of sessions to get you in top shape for you next race. Everything from aerobic, force, speed, anaerobic and more. The beauty of it is that you don’t need to ever get board of doing the same 5 - 10 sessions on rotation. This has helped me do the training I know I need to do, as each session is different to the last 20 you've done, all without having to tax your "rubber swim hat covered brain" at all. All of this is geared to triathletes so the sessions are of a decent distance too (anywhere between 2-3.5km). A guide to pace for each workout is given to help you get the right pace for each set plus times for rest, set intervals and goal race pace. 2 distance options are given for every workout to try and cover from Sprint to IM training, though I would say it’s most suited to Olympic distance triathletes. At this price, you can’t go wrong, and with the great design of waterproof pages, it makes the perfect pool companion
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Love it! Truly waterproof.,
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This review is from: Workouts in a Binder: Swim Workouts for Triathletes (Spiral-bound)
I've been swimming for over 15yrs, on and off, and have always had trouble coming up with new workouts on my own. Boredom is usually the reason for stopping my training. However, I heard about this book from a friend and decided to give it a try. I'm absolutely hooked on my book now. I'm excited to try my next workout. The waterproof pages are truly waterproof, I keep it on the deck while I swim and in my pool bag when I'm done and so far it has held up just fine. The workouts are challenging and varied. The distances are high, even of the easier sets, the lowest distance is about 2200m.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Swim Workouts for Triathletes,
This review is from: Workouts in a Binder: Swim Workouts for Triathletes (Spiral-bound)
The only thing missing at first was a definitive plan of exactly which workout to complete on which day. But once you realise you have a choice of up to 15 workouts of a specific type to select from it's a great asset to training. If you are a beginner follow the plan but trim down the distance of the sets. Once you ahve completed one set of 12 weeks start again but this time do all of the shorter set. At the end of the 12 weeks start again but try to complete some of the longer sets.This is a very well thought out training plan and a excelent way of developing your swimming. The plastic coated pages mean that the book lasts a long time even when constantly getting wet.
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