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Strength Training for Triathletes: The Complete Program to Build Triathlon Power, Speed, and Muscular Endurance
"Strength Training for Triathletes" offers a comprehensive strength training program for triathlon that will help triathletes build power, speed, and muscular endurance for faster racing over any race distance.
Certified USA Triathlon coach and NSCA Personal Trainer of the Year Patrick Hagerman, EdD, reveals a focused, triathlon-specific strength training program that will enable triathletes to push harder during training and on the race course when the effort is hardest. Triathletes who master this progressive strength training program will also become more resistant to injury, meaning fewer missed workouts.
"Strength Training for Triathletes" features 75 of the most effective strength training exercises for triathlon swimming, cycling, and running plus core strength and general conditioning. Full-color photographs illustrate each simple exercise, which are grouped so athletes can focus on their own individual performance limiters. Hagerman simplifies the science underlying strength training, offering easy-to-follow guidelines on resistance and reps that will make triathletes stronger through every phase of the season.
"Strength Training for Triathletes" develops these abilities in triathletes:
More powerful, longer-lasting musclesResistance to fatigue and injuryImproved body composition with stronger, leaner muscle massBetter performance without added bulk
Strength training often separates the top performers in triathlon from the middle of the pack. Even small improvements in muscle strength can add up to big race results. "Strength Training for Triathletes" makes it simple for triathletes of all levels to get stronger and race faster.
Certified USA Triathlon coach and NSCA Personal Trainer of the Year Patrick Hagerman, EdD, reveals a focused, triathlon-specific strength training program that will enable triathletes to push harder during training and on the race course when the effort is hardest. Triathletes who master this progressive strength training program will also become more resistant to injury, meaning fewer missed workouts.
"Strength Training for Triathletes" features 75 of the most effective strength training exercises for triathlon swimming, cycling, and running plus core strength and general conditioning. Full-color photographs illustrate each simple exercise, which are grouped so athletes can focus on their own individual performance limiters. Hagerman simplifies the science underlying strength training, offering easy-to-follow guidelines on resistance and reps that will make triathletes stronger through every phase of the season.
"Strength Training for Triathletes" develops these abilities in triathletes:
More powerful, longer-lasting musclesResistance to fatigue and injuryImproved body composition with stronger, leaner muscle massBetter performance without added bulk
Strength training often separates the top performers in triathlon from the middle of the pack. Even small improvements in muscle strength can add up to big race results. "Strength Training for Triathletes" makes it simple for triathletes of all levels to get stronger and race faster.
232 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2008
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March 21, 2019
Probably the best book on explaining the different types of weight training programs for individuals needs. Thou the book focus is on triathlon training, it does provide in-depth on the science of weight/ resistance training and the current thinking on training.
For the triathletes, it will advise you how to achieve your goals on increasing endurance, bulk, and strength for each sport or combination of each for a specific distance of your next triathlon race.
"A muscle that is the right size (bulk) can be made stronger and more powerful or be given more endurance" page 9.
The first half of the book covers the strength training programs and different type of training programs, peculiarly explaining the goals when doing reps, sets, weight, and rest periods between sets. Plus, samples of training programs to start out and ways to progressive in your training.
The second half of the book is the description and photos of exercises. Point out certain exercises to improve weakness and exercise index on what sports its focus on and equipment needed.
The last portion includes an exercise log on Goal Weights and index.
This book is a keeper and I will be referring to during my training.
For the triathletes, it will advise you how to achieve your goals on increasing endurance, bulk, and strength for each sport or combination of each for a specific distance of your next triathlon race.
"A muscle that is the right size (bulk) can be made stronger and more powerful or be given more endurance" page 9.
The first half of the book covers the strength training programs and different type of training programs, peculiarly explaining the goals when doing reps, sets, weight, and rest periods between sets. Plus, samples of training programs to start out and ways to progressive in your training.
The second half of the book is the description and photos of exercises. Point out certain exercises to improve weakness and exercise index on what sports its focus on and equipment needed.
The last portion includes an exercise log on Goal Weights and index.
This book is a keeper and I will be referring to during my training.
December 18, 2009
I think the info is really good in the book, I wish it were presented in a slightly less complicated manner. It was very bewildering to know how to diagnose the imbalances and then build a training plan to work on them that didn't involve 400 exercises. But I'm looking forward to having some new exercises to do, so for that purpose the book is very good.
December 30, 2015
good read - recommend print over kindle (kindle version - tables didn't present well) - would have liked more mention of half-iron/iron training - more focused on sprint/olympic tris
more of a review to follow
more of a review to follow
October 11, 2013
No earth shattering information for anyone who has strength trained in the past
January 4, 2015
Easy to read, very practical, no-nonsense book. Extended my next 6 month of Triathlon training plan using information from this book.
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