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How to plan training when you have limited time – Trainiask 038 - Triathlon Trainiask Podcast
Category: Sports & Recreation
Duration: 00:06:54
Publish Date: 2018-02-21 06:00:26
Description: On this episode of the Trainiask podcast, Shannon says she only has seven hours a week to spend on training.  She wants to know how to best distribute it over the three disciplines, swimming, biking, and running. TRANSCRIPT: Triathlon Taren: Hey, what's up [trainiacs 00:00:07], Triathlon Taren here with another addition of the Triathlon Trainiask Podcast. Where I sit on the couch with my two dogs as I am right now. Right Gracie? Can you sniff the mic? Excellent sniff, Grace. And answer your triathlon questions five days a week. Today's question comes from Shannon. Shannon: Hey Taren, Shannon here. I'm a new trainiac and a new triathloner. I've got seven hours a week to spend on training and I'm trying to figure out how to distribute it best. The swimming podcasts tell me I should swim every day. The running podcast say I should run four times a week and the biking podcasts say bike, bike, bike. And I just don't know how to spend my seven hours. What do you suggest? Triathlon Taren: Shannon, yes that is I think, kind of the nature of coaching. That if all you have is hammers, everything looks like a nail. So, every coach of every single event is going to say, "Yeah, do more of that. It's the most important." I'll try to be impartial and I'm going to have to make some assumptions that would apply to the most amount of new triathletes who have a lack of time throughout the week. So, as you say you're a new trainiac. Awesome, thank you. You're also a new triathloner. Awesome, congrats good choice. And most triathletes have a little bit of difficulty, probably the most difficulty in all the three sports with the swimming. So, what we're looking to do with the seven hours that you've got is to basically, I would say, get you to a race. Get a beginner triathlete to a race confidant and fit. And I would say confidence is the number one issue. So, I'm going to assume that you are like most triathletes but you have to work on your swim. And what we're going to do is take the swims that you do and we're going for the absolute best bang for your buck time that you can spend in the water. And to do that it's not by going and swimming and swimming and swimming and swimming and swimming. When you first start into triathlon you may have me heard this many times before, you need to get comfortable breathing in the water. Having your face in the water. Being horizontal. Being comfortable with people around you. So, a few things that I would recommend are going to triathlontaren.com/swimdrillprogram and before you go into the water and even start doing a lap, you want to make sure you can go through all of those drills easily, comfortably, not feel out of breath. And then what's going to happen is because they're drills and you're working on technique and not fitness, you're going to save a fair bit of time in the water and a half hour to forty minutes focusing on one drill alone is going to be a ton of time. Then you move on to the next drill. So, you're using your time efficiently in the water. Go through those drills. Get comfortable in the water. And then, ideally if you can find a swim group where you can practice some of the in-pool open water swim techniques that I've recommended. Basically just go to You Tube and search open water swimming in a pool, Triathlon Taren. Something like that. And there are going to be some drills that you can do in a pool that is going to save you time from having to find a lake. Drive to open water and find that. And that's going to get you ready for the swim aspect. Now, when it comes down to time spend biking or time spent running, I would focus on two things. Number one with your run, focus on the same sort of thing. Focus on technique as opposed to logging miles. And what I would Google for that is You Tube search Triathlon Taren Chi running, and start getting in the habit of being able to run efficiently. Leaning forward, bouncing off the ground,
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