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bluebirdbiker posted 2 years ago.
hehehehe, duh! TRAIN. Was the prob!!?? Welcome to addiction. We are here to help you :D
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Anton posted 2 years ago.
Work the plan...don't let the plan work you.
Yes the early weeks will seem easy and feel as though you are wasting your time. You are not. You are building fluency in all three sports as well as adapting your body to the rigors of what lies down the road. (no pun intended)
This is one area where alot of folks get into trouble. I have met and know folks who try to follow a plan even get a coach and pay for the help and ruin themselves because the don't think it's enough. (They never think it's too much!)
To get past this I look ahead and realize there are many steps involved in getting to the goal. Baby steps or giant steps get you to your goal...baby steps are,however, easier on the body and mind and less likely to get you injured.
But of course,you already know that!
"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" - Vincent Van Gogh
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beads1985 posted 2 years ago.
Don't force it. Go with the plan. Build up your endurance slowly so you don't risk injury.
Nothing to it, but to do it
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alowrun posted 2 years ago.
Okay, this sounds sound guys. Thanks alot
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bluebirdbiker posted 2 years ago.
Look, the key is that you follow the program as much as possible, but the program is just that. A schedule. Nothing more. It provides a direction for your workouts and you should base your goals around it. Add and take away from distances/hours. Additionally, each workout you do on the schedule should have a purpose for a particular advancement you are looking for during "that" time period in the training schedule. Whether it's for endurance, aerobic build, muscular strength or for anaerobic advancement. Each bike, run and swim should have a specifically designed reason to be and each session should have a strict focus (e.g., tempo run, reciovery, cruise intervals, endurance run....). The schedule is set, or it should be to build your fitness slowly using each workout to attain a specific goal. You should take it, adapt it to your current fitness level and if necessary change it to challenge you little by little. But the most important point is that one should listen to the body for signs that you are overdoing it. Conversely, add to the regime if it is not sufficient enough of a challenge for you again, slowly so that injury does not happen. Slowly progress through the sessions but only use it as guidance. Start by building a solid base so that when you start to increase vollume,frequency and intensity to the workouts you can handle it without injury. Especially for intensity. You seem to be fitter than the prescribed information. So, take it and reevaluate the events and distances. The sessions should be designed to work the aerobic system and muscles to build stronger endurance for a particular distance you are working for and the distances and times change for the different periods in a structured workout program. As you progress closer and closer to the race there should be more and more focus on working the upper limits of the aearobic system and then the anaerobic system (higher HRs)/intensity. Joe Friel explains these issues very well and has very good "sample" weeks for each period of the cycle that eventually brings you to the race.
I hope this infor is useful. Revise the program to suit you and to what you can manage but most importantly, listen to the body. If you ned a rest, take it and continue on. Good luck.
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alowrun posted 2 years ago.
Thank you so much-
I think you hit every question I could possibly have thought out. Many thanks for all the data and input!
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bluebirdbiker posted 2 years ago.
I ya got any more questions just ask.
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Tentatively, I have adopted the Half-Ironman training schedule here on trifuel.com
I've noted that in the beginning weeks, many of what exists seems minimal compared to some of the direction-less, no goal training the past I have done.
Granted, the old training wasn't all that great.
But I am following it so far... but I'm becoming compulsive. I want to train more!
What do you guys do when you get this feeling?
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