Getting Your Training Started - For Triathlons and Triathletes
It is important that you view your preparation for a session and the way you start it as vital steps to success.
You must be organized and plan your sessions carefully.
The first triathlete out of the door and up to race speed does not win.
Cerebral training Before doing any stroke, revolution or stride, you need to decide what you are trying to achieve in the session.
You can do this as you change into your kit.
If you just want to chill after a really bad day at the office, that's fine.
If it's a day for working harder, then get yourself mentally ready.
To train smart, you must have a goal, some kind of a plan and sessions that fit within both of these parameters.
Leave enough time or adapt If you lose time and have only got 45 minutes to fit in a session that normally takes an hour, you must adapt your session plan.
You may find some days, such as weekends, are better than others for longer sessions.
Time management is the skill that good triathletes master.
If you are bad at apportioning your time, consider how you can be more efficient with the 10,000 minutes available each week.
Warming up You have an idea of what you need to do, and you have enough time to do it.
However, the dangerous part is approaching: you are about to be let loose.
Here is an important piece of advice: you must warm up gradually in the first few minutes of your leisure time workout fix.
Far too often, due to insufficient time, lack of patience or the need to keep up with training partners, triathletes start off too hard.
This places physical and chemical stress on their body which leads to lack of progress, injury and burn-out.
Some easy relaxed swimming, cycling over flat terrain in low gears or a walk-jog-run is how every session must start.
All systems go? Given that you spend the first 10-15 minutes gradually increasing your effort from the slowest possible pace up to a steady effort, you can check how your body feels.
It might ache a bit, you may feel sluggish, the weather might be horrible, but if there's something that's really serious, such as an injury hurting or an illness in your system, you should stop and end the session right there.
Top Tip Every session must have a warm up but this does not equate to wasted time or get excluded from the total workout time.
As well as being aerobic, warm ups can bridge the gap between normal daily life and the core of your workouts.
You must be organized and plan your sessions carefully.
The first triathlete out of the door and up to race speed does not win.
Cerebral training Before doing any stroke, revolution or stride, you need to decide what you are trying to achieve in the session.
You can do this as you change into your kit.
If you just want to chill after a really bad day at the office, that's fine.
If it's a day for working harder, then get yourself mentally ready.
To train smart, you must have a goal, some kind of a plan and sessions that fit within both of these parameters.
Leave enough time or adapt If you lose time and have only got 45 minutes to fit in a session that normally takes an hour, you must adapt your session plan.
You may find some days, such as weekends, are better than others for longer sessions.
Time management is the skill that good triathletes master.
If you are bad at apportioning your time, consider how you can be more efficient with the 10,000 minutes available each week.
Warming up You have an idea of what you need to do, and you have enough time to do it.
However, the dangerous part is approaching: you are about to be let loose.
Here is an important piece of advice: you must warm up gradually in the first few minutes of your leisure time workout fix.
Far too often, due to insufficient time, lack of patience or the need to keep up with training partners, triathletes start off too hard.
This places physical and chemical stress on their body which leads to lack of progress, injury and burn-out.
Some easy relaxed swimming, cycling over flat terrain in low gears or a walk-jog-run is how every session must start.
All systems go? Given that you spend the first 10-15 minutes gradually increasing your effort from the slowest possible pace up to a steady effort, you can check how your body feels.
It might ache a bit, you may feel sluggish, the weather might be horrible, but if there's something that's really serious, such as an injury hurting or an illness in your system, you should stop and end the session right there.
Top Tip Every session must have a warm up but this does not equate to wasted time or get excluded from the total workout time.
As well as being aerobic, warm ups can bridge the gap between normal daily life and the core of your workouts.
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