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10 Swim Workouts That Make Swimming Fun

We’ve already discussed some swim workouts, like the top five for time crunched triathletes. If you have a little more time, here are some great workouts that will make your swim workout more fun. “Fast-Medium-Fast” (1400) Warm-up: 6x 50m Increasing ...

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Top Ten Treadmill Workouts to Increase Run Speed

We’ve discussed a number of indoor workouts before, like these indoor bike workouts and this one on building a home gym for less than $100. Treadmill Hurricane (35min) Warm-up: 10min w/ 4x 30 sec pick-ups of increased speed Main Set: 10x30sec ...

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Top 10 Indoor Trainer Bike Workouts

We’ve talked a bit about how you can build a great indoor gym on a budget, and today we’re going to discuss some great workouts you can do indoors with your trainer. Trainer workouts are not only useful for getting ...

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Top 5 Triathlon Strength Workouts

Strength in triathlon is often overlooked as not being very important. This is truly a shame for multiple research studies show a serious performance benefit from regular strength training. During the winter months, in base training especially, it is the ...

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Top 5 Run Workouts for the Time Crunched Triathlete

1.   Hurricane (25-30min): This super short workout done on a treadmill is my favorite workout. I found it so effective I do it once a week (except when in a recovery week) year round.  The Workout: Warm-up with 10-15 minutes ...

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Top 5 Swim Workouts for the Time Crunched Triathlete

Swimming is discipline of triathlon that is challenging to find time for. On the run or bike you can just throw on your running of biking shoes and head out the door. With swimming you typically have to drive to ...

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Top 5 Bike Workouts for the Time Crunched Triathlete

Out of the 3 disciplines of triathlon, the bike (being over 50% of most triathlons) is obviously the most time consuming. However finding time to put in hours upon hours in the saddle is often hard when you have a ...

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Medicine Ball Workouts

Here’s another workout from Shin Ohtake.  We really liked his video on forefoot running earlier this week, so we thought we’d send this one along to you too.  If you’ve ever worked with a medicine ball, you might have realized ...

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12 Myths About Strength Training For Triathletes

Myth #1: More Strength Training Is Better Just like everything in triathlon, more is not always better. In fact given that majority of any triathlete’s training should be spent swimming, biking, and running, excessive strength training can easily affect other ...

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Triathlon Interval Training Explained

INTRODUCTION TO INTERVAL TRAINING Training for a triathlon wouldn’t be very exciting if all you did was swim, bike, and run either hard or easy for an extended period of time to increase performance. While there is a time and ...

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