Synopses & Reviews
Be honest: trainers are no fun. But on days when youre short on time or the weather is just unbearable, a trainer or spin bike means staying on track, maintaining your hard-earned fitness, and putting the hurt on your competitors in the early season.
Workouts in a Binder® for Indoor Cycling makes indoor rides more interesting and much more effective than simply spinning through TV re-runs.
This sweatproof book offers 60 workouts from USA Cycling coach and former pro cyclist Dirk Friel and Wes Hobson, ITU medalist and USOC Triathlete of the year. Each workout is designed to produce a specific training effect from Joe Friels Training Bible approach: Endurance, Force, Speed Skills, Muscular Endurance, Anaerobic Endurance, and Power. You can use a power meter, heart rate monitor, or perceived exertion to make sure youre in the right zone for each workout. Pepper these workouts into your existing training plan or use one of six plans in the book to build your off-season fitness.
Workouts in a Binder for Indoor Cycling is sweatproof and spiral bound to lie flat on your spin bike or near your trainer. Its compact enough to travel with you to a hotel gym.
Just one problem: Now you have no excuse to bag a ride on a rainy day.
Synopsis
Indoor workouts on trainers and spin bikes are great opportunities to isolate weaknesses, work on drills, and more closely measure performance, but the preset courses of a stationary bike can quickly become boring. These spiral-bound, sweat proof workouts enable cyclists and triathletes to choose workouts geared toward their personal objectives, making indoor rides more interesting and productive. Each workout allows the athlete to use heart rate zones, perceived exertion, power levels, or a combination of methods to track performance and improve skills. The workouts are categorized by objective: endurance, force, speed skills, muscular endurance, anaerobic endurance, or power. The book can be used in conjunction with training plans for both triathlon and cycling and is the perfect solution for days when inclement weather threatens to cancel a ride.
Synopsis
Swim Workouts for Triathletes, 2nd Ed. will help you develop real swimming speed. This waterproof book of 75 swim workouts provides the structure, variety, and drills triathletes need to become more efficient and faster swimmers. Each workout is designed around a specific goal—endurance, speed, form, muscular endurance, or anaerobic endurance—making it easy to prepare for events of different distances and improve all-around swimming skill.
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It’s no secret: most triathletes are weak swimmers. Improving your swim will make you a faster, more confident triathlete, and you’ll enjoy your time in the water.
Swim Workouts for Triathletes, 2nd Ed. will help you develop real swimming speed. This waterproof book of 75 swim workouts provides the structure, variety, and drills triathletes need to become more efficient and faster swimmers. Each workout is designed around a specific goal—endurance, speed, form, muscular endurance, or anaerobic endurance—making it easy to prepare for events of different distances and improve all-around swimming skill.
Supplement your current training plan with these workouts or use one of the book's four swim training plans to prepare for triathlon's most popular swim distances. You’ll improve your efficiency and feel for the water with illustrated technique drills. New 30-minute workouts help slower swimmers or those with limited pool time get up to speed.
Swim Workouts for Triathletes means no more swimming in circles. Take this waterproof book to the pool with you, and you’ll be swimming real workouts that will make you a faster swimmer and a better triathlete.
Synopsis
It’s no secret: Most triathletes are weak swimmers. Improving your swim will make you a faster, more confident triathlete.
Swim Workouts for Triathletes features 80 swim workouts with the structure, variety, and drills you need to become a more efficient swimmer. Each workout is designed around a specific goal—endurance, speed, form, muscular endurance, or anaerobic endurance—making it easy to prepare for any race and improve all-around swimming skill.
You can use these workouts in your current training or begin one of the swim training plans inside. The new edition also includes:
- The 10 best drills for improved freestyle performance
- 30-minute sessions to fit a quality workout into a busy day
- Open-water workouts to get you race-ready
- Beginner & advanced workout sets to suit your ability or schedule
- 4 training plans for sprint, Olympic & half-Ironman®, Ironman®, and general fitness
Take Swim Workouts for Triathletes to the pool to help strengthen your swim and become a better triathlete.
Synopsis
Here is an entire book devoted to making indoor rides more interesting and productive for cyclists and triathletes. Youll find 60 workouts and 6 training plans packed into this compact, sweatproof format.Indoor workouts on trainers and spin bikes are great opportunities to isolate weaknesses and work on drills. Each workout in this binder allows you to use heart rate, perceived exertion, power output, or a combination of all three methods to better track your performance. Focusing on particular skills is easy because the workouts are categorized by objective: endurance, force, speed skills, muscular endurance, anaerobic endurance, and power.
Whether you incorporate it into your training plan periodically, build an off-season program around it, or just use it when the weather wont cooperate, Workouts in a Binder for Indoor Cycling will renew your purpose and enthusiasm for indoor rides.
About the Author
Gale Bernhardt is one of the most accomplished coaches in the sport of triathlon. She is a USA Triathlon and USA Cycling elite-certified coach and serves as one of a few USA Triathlon World Cup coaches. She coached the U.S. Olympic triathlon team in 2004. Bernhardt is a contributor to Active.com and has authored Training Plans for Multisport Athletes, Training Plans for Cyclists, Bicycling for Women, and Triathlon Training Basics.
Nick Hansen is a former U.S. National Team swimming coach, University of Wisconsin head coach, University of Arizona assistant coach, and a masters team swimming coach.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Gale BernhardtIntroduction
Instructions
Equipment
Training Zones
Testing
Definitions and Descriptions
Workout Plans
Workouts
Endurance (E)
Force (F)
Speed Skills (SS)
Muscular Endurance (ME)
Anaerobic Endurance (AE)
Power (P)
Mixed (M)
Resources
About the Authors