Triathlon Science
Joe Friel, Jim Vance
Language: English
Pages: 664
ISBN: 1450423809
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Leave ’em in your wake, leave ’em in your trail, leave ’em in your dust. Get your brain as fit as your body and achieve your triathlon potential.
Triathlon Science is packed with all the expertise you can handle, and more. From fine-tuning your physiology for each of the three disciplines to plotting the best race strategy for your fitness level, personal goals, and competitive conditions, you’ll find the insights and prescriptions typically available only from a top-level coach.
With editors Joe Friel and Jim Vance and a who’s-who list of international experts on the sport, Triathlon Science offers you an unprecedented wealth of advanced yet accessible information on excelling in the sport.
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intensities of training Building a Base Through a Periodized Run Training Program Several widely accepted, although not scientifically validated, concepts surround the design of base training mesocycles. Following is a brief rundown on each of them. Focusing on Aerobic Training Intensities The first is that focusing primarily on aerobic training intensities offers the greatest potential to adapting successfully to progressively increasing training stress later. This is thought to be a
technique, supplies a possible explanation of its mechanism, and includes a list of providers.14 But no scientific basis for the treatment is presented. Numerous athletes provide testimonials and stories of successes. So who are we to believe? When describing the Graston technique in Science Based Medicine, Harriet Hall, MD, states, “The fact that lots of people use it and think it works does not constitute evidence that it actually works. Lots of people used bloodletting and thought it worked.
recovered from my injury, but I can’t seem to get my form back.” Others might offer, “I’m at 100 percent physically, but the motivation just isn’t there.” These statements may sound familiar. Plateaus and staleness are universal experiences that all triathletes and performers have gone through, regardless of ability level or type of sport. Experiencing peaks and valleys is normal, but there are ways to regain passion and ensure that high points are experienced more often than low ones.
and the difference reached 38 percent for women. Age- and gender-related differences in swimming, cycling, and running performances likely result from physiological, sociological, and psychological changes that occur. The exact reasons for these sex-related differences are not clear. A greater decline of one or more physiological determinants of endurance performance for women compared with men (e.g., maximal oxygen uptake, lactate threshold, and exercise economy) has not been evidenced.
one question that immediately comes to mind among triathletes and coaches is, Can the cardiopulmonary system and oxygen transport capabilities be improved through training? The answer is yes. One way to improve O2 transport is to undertake altitude training, which has the effect of increasing the number of RBCs and Hb molecules, resulting in an increased capacity to get oxygen to the exercising muscles. (Unfortunately, some unethical athletes have chosen to induce the same physiological effect