How To Improve Your Triathlon Time

How To Improve Your Triathlon Time promotes a healthy, balanced approach to an obsessive sport. Author Brad Kearns, New York Times bestselling author and former US national champion and #3 world-ranked professional triathlete, offers a refreshing alternative to the struggle and suffer mentality that prevails in the triathlon world. Kearns draws upon decades of experience as an elite athlete and coach and gives anecdotes from many of the all-time greatest triathletes and coaches to present a comprehensive plan that will allow you to comfortably integrate triathlon training into your busy life. You’ll learn to cultivate an intuitive approach to training, departing from the regimented weekly training schedules that exhaust many athletes. You’ll gain a complete understanding and step-by-step guidance to implement the foundational concepts like: Aerobic base building: Training at the optimal heart rates to build your fitness base and fat burning capabilities without interruption from high stress workouts Periodization: Dividing the calendar year into different training cycles to peak on demand, recover completely, and minimize overtraining risks Key Workouts: Workouts that are difficult and challenging enough to stimulate fitness breakthrough become the central focus of your training schedule Intensity: Integrating explosive, high intensity workouts the correct way to avoid injury and burnout and become race ready Mindset: Destroying and reframing self-limiting beliefs and becoming more confident Intuition: Accessing your inner wisdom to make the best training decisions and regulate your competitive intensity How To Improve Your Triathlon Time helps athletes of all levels make the best training decisions, protect health in pursuit of fitness, evolve from regimentation to intuition, and have more fun while going faster!