Triathlon: Starting Out
Training for Your First Competition
3rd Edition
Published on 31. January 2017
144 pages
978-1-78255-426-4 (ISBN)
Description
Triathlon is more than the sum of its parts. You can swim, cycle, and run but you need more to become a triathlete. If you want to prepare for your first triathlon, this easy-to-understand introduction to the sport is what you need. Roch Frey and Paul Huddle, two of the most respected names in multisport coaching, cover all the bases to get you to the starting line and help you finish your first race.
The book contains information on everything from weight training to flexibility up to nutrition. It also contains detailed workout schedules for the sprint and Olympic distances to guide you through your training period.
Triathlon: Starting Out is an easy-to-use training book that will help you visualize the race and make it to the finish line. With Roch and Paul at your side, anyone can do a triathlon!
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02/2017
3rd Edition
Meyer & Meyer Sport (UK) Ltd
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During his twelve-year career as a professional triathlete, Paul Huddle finished over twenty long-distance events and well over 300 triathlons. As a partner in Multisports.com, Huddle is involved in production, administration, and instruction at triathlon camps and clinics all over the world.
A former professional triathlete from Canada, Roch Frey has been involved with triathlon for over twenty years. After winning the Canadian Long Course National Championships in 1993, he turned to full-time coaching and combined forces with Paul Huddle, Paula Newby-Fraser, and John Duke to create Multisports.com.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- FOREWORD
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1: DEFINING OUR TERMS
- CHAPTER 2: STRENGTH TRAINING BASICS
- CHAPTER 3: FLEXIBILITY
- CHAPTER 4: WEIGHT TRAINING PERIODIZATION - A SCHEDULE FOR THE TRIATHLETE
- CHAPTER 5: 8-WEEK SPRINT DISTANCE TRAINING SCHEDULE
- CHAPTER 6: 8-WEEK OLYMPIC DISTANCE TRAINING SCHEDULE
- CHAPTER 7: NUTRITION AND THE TRIATHLETE
- CHAPTER 8: NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS
- CHAPTER 9: MENTAL FOCUS
- CHAPTER 10: RACE DAY
- CHAPTER 11: RESOURCES
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
- PAUL HUDDLE
- ROCH FREY
- BOB BABBITT
- CREDITS
