training plan and questions
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AdventureBear posted 1 year ago.
Wow, that's quite an extensive plan description...93 pages!
Can you give us more information? What is your current level of fitness, what are your current workouts, when you say going "full out" , can you be quantitative? How many days a week are you working out, how many of each sport, how far, how hard, what is your fitness history?
How far is your first DU and how far is your first TRI?
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kylie posted 1 year ago.
After a quick glance at the plan (I basically looked at the scheduled workouts) I have a few initial comments:
(1) seems like it gets you up to a longish run fairly quickly for how often it has you running (2 runs per week and week 10 sees you at an hour run)
(2) The biking only builds to 20 miles in the long ride
(3) In a week where you are finally at an hour run and a 20 mile bike, you are doing 2 weight sessions of 45 and 30 minutes. For a beginner, I would feel that weight sessions are less important than actual time biking, swimming, and running. You will get different opinions on this one though :)
I'd go with making your own plan or looking around at some others available. Like you mentioned, there is never a down or rest week, it seems to just constantly build. And it is often safer to build biking miles more and running a bit more carefully (since running is high impact and all).
There is a sprint plan on trifuel: http://www.trifuel.com/triathlon-training/Sprint-Triathlon-Training.php. I've never tried it though, so I can't say how good it is. Just another for you to check out.
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wannabtriguy posted 1 year ago.
Thanks. I think I'm going to go with my own 18 week plan. Hopefully I should have it done later this week. This way I can schedule in another Du I'm going to run as a brick session and make sure that a recovery week follows. Thanks for the advice.
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vanjames posted 1 year ago.
Another thought is take a look at "Training Plans for Multisport athletes" book by Gale Bernhardt. It has sprint/Loy/IM/ MTB tri/DU plans of varying lengths (12 weeks to 1 year) and has all the information on strenght, HR, some workouts. etc.
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wannabtriguy posted 1 year ago.
vanjames;60493 wrote:
Another thought is take a look at "Training Plans for Multisport athletes" book by Gale Bernhardt. It has sprint/Loy/IM/ MTB tri/DU plans of varying lengths (12 weeks to 1 year) and has all the information on strenght, HR, some workouts. etc.
I'll check it out next time I get to Border's.
"Wow, that's quite an extensive plan description...93 pages!
Can you give us more information? What is your current level of fitness, what are your current workouts, when you say going "full out" , can you be quantitative? How many days a week are you working out, how many of each sport, how far, how hard, what is your fitness history?
How far is your first DU and how far is your first TRI?"
Current fitness... I just ran two 5 K races finishing 24:35 and 23:55. These are the first races I've ever run. I'm at the gym workoing out 6 days a week. I row to warm up for 2000 M. 2 days I'll ride bike keeping my HR between 135-145 for 30-40 minutes. Once a week I do a 1.5 hour ride on the hilly program. When ever riding I try to keep my cadence between 95-105. Running is usually 3 miles 2X a week. Not sure about my HR or cadence. It's on a small indoor track. 12 laps a mile. Then I have 1 strength training day. 15 reps 2 sets low weight. Mostly the machine's but I'm going to switch over to the free weights soon. I'm not swiming since the Du is what I've been training for.
I played football for 2 years in high school. 210 pounds when I graduated. Rugby a year in college. Now I'm 28 and the past 9 years I've been just causual biking and a lot of hiking. 20+ miles a day, multi day trips. I'm at 177 pounds and 5'10".
My first Du is 2mile snowshoe, 10K mt. bike, 2 mile snowshoe. http://www.yellowjacketracing.com/Lake%20Effect%20SnowShoe%20Festival.htm
The tri is sprint distance. http://www.keukalaketri.com/
Hope this anwsered your questions. I always was competitive. I like pushing myself, making sure that when I'm done with a game or race I left everything out there and there was nothing else I could of done to better to prepare. Thats why I'm trying to find the best program for me to start with. Thanx again.
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AdventureBear posted 1 year ago.
Hey, how did your DU go? It was on the 28th, right?
I missed your reply to my questions. It sounds like your current training program is right in line with what you should be doing to get yourself prepared. Have you found a "suitable" plan yet?
You can wing it on your own by adding teh progressive overload principle to what you are currrently doing, I think I provided a link above to an article on my site.
Sounds like you are building a good base from which to start. Keep us updated!
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I have 18 weeks to prepare for my first Tri. I'm planning on using the 11 week plan from Tri newbie http://www.trinewbies.com/10wtp.pdf
I have a Du in 15 weeks that I thought I could use as a heavy workout. After that I thought I could take a rest week then train for a week then my taper week before my first Tri. I thought I could use the next 4 weeksas extra base training. How is this going to affect the workouts they schedule? Should I not even bother with that program and make my own? Also I've been reading that every 4 weeks should be a light recovery week. This plan doesn't seem to have recovery weeks. Between weeks 4-8 should I schedule in some speed and quality workouts? I've spent the last month just going full out with no plan getting ready for my first Du this Sunday. I'd like to bring some stucture and plan to my first Tri so any direction is great.