Was thinking recently about an idea Pantman came up with about changing weekly-monthly training (micro) cycles so that every week is devoted to concentrating on just one discipline, with just maintenance on the other two.
Thought this might be the way forward - as long as you can keep up a little work on the other disciplines, partic swimming, so you don't lose technique.
I think I will start doing a 4-week training cycle of the following:
Week1 - SWIM/BIKE
Week2 - BIKE/RUN (with a little swimming tech prac)
Week3 - SWIM/RUN
Week4 - Easy
ANyoen do anythign similar to this already, and does it work?
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I think thats macro-cycle training.
ww, a little known athlete by the name of simon whitfield does this sort of thing
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I think this type of trainig has a place in the grand scheame of things but I think its in the PEEK phasses of your training rather than BASE or BUILD -
they have bikes......nice and warm, and you may even get a nice hot cup o' tea off-of a lovely young lady afterwards.
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and my cat-eye computer would explode!!!
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not heard them called 'biccies' before....
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Is it necessary, or is it a sparkly toy?
What is tapering?
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(i answered one!)
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e's a cherub!
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snigger.
oh and for the cruel joke?
THWAP!
When i was training hard i found that was the only way i could do it - alternating running one week and cycling the next. It definitely worked for me. I didn't need to do the swimming so just fit a session in whenever (i was national level and on less than 45 km swum this year still swim 1500s at 1.15-1.20 pace per 100). I can't do it at the moment as i can't run (ITB) so trying to cycle in my running weeks too.
you think it might work then?
i think id feel more comfortable skipping cycling and running one week out of every three. would be better for me as could def get a good 4+ sessions of the two disciplines in each week and be able to do some decent interval and hill sessions.
btw, excuse my ignorance, but what does ITB stand for?
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if i could afford a personal trainer i would!
jj, you dont mean it....
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if you need to know about technique as pantman, spans and missus l by the sounds of it!
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For swimming go along to a tri-club swimming session or a masters session, the tri ones are usually better though as they should have a coach who is prepared to teach first principles rather than make you swim hard/fast.
Am swimming at 1.18-1.20 ish at the moment in the pool (fast at tumble turns so a bit slower open water more like 21-22 minutes for 1500) - should come back a bit faster as didn't swim other than races for 3 months (kept "forgetting" to go).
I found doing the weeks about i could do lsd, hard, hills etc whereas when i tried to do both disciplines i seemed to end up doing loads of recovery rides/runs. Every 3 weeks would be fine too
Sounds odd but some people can and some can't. If you take a breathe then tuck yourself into a mushroom do you bob around on the surface of the pool or sinkk?
I am teching/coaching a guy hwo wants to start tri at the moment and he bounces off the bottom of the pool when he does that.