NEW! Training for Triathlon

Give Yourself The Edge with the latest Ground-Breaking Training Tips, Performance-Boosting Secrets and 
Race-Winning Tactics

 

Dear Triathlete

If so, read on, because you can be a serious contender...

The modern ultra-distance triathlon celebrates its thirtieth anniversary in less than six months’ time.

For experienced triathletes like me, it seems it was only yesterday that US Navy officer, Commander John Collins, organised the first ever Ironman event in Hawaii following a heated debate over which endurance athletes were the fittest.

Commander Collins combined the Waikiki Roughwater Swim (2.4m), the Around-Oahu Bike Race (112m) and the Honolulu Marathon (26.2m) to create the ultimate long-distance multi-sport race in 1978. The winner of this first event was Gordon Haller, and the rest is history. Today, I'd like to tell you about the fututre though...

The Ironman is already a premier annual event on the international triathlon calendar, and the sport of triathlon continues to go from strength to strength, having been made an Olympic sport in 2000. Naturally competition is fiercer than ever, at all levels, and those rising to the top are the elite few with access to the latest sports science research into the best ways of training for, and competing in, the triathlon.

So it’s no longer enough simply to swim, run or cycle harder – or further – in your regular training, if you’re serious about competing at your personal best.

We need to ‘train smarter, not harder’ – and, if you read on, I’ll tell you how you can smash your personal best and finish well ahead of the following pack.
 
But triathlons are about tactics as well as technique. And no longer is it the case that the fastest, or even the fittest, all-round athlete who wins on the day. As modern triathlon has become more popular, and more competitive, so the strategy and tactics of competition have become increasingly sophisticated. And I can share these secrets of success with you today.

The latest workbook from Peak Performance is an absolute-must for all serious triatletes.

If you want to give yourself the edge you need to read this book. And because you’re a registered member of our Peak Performance web site, I wanted to give you privileged, advance notice of its publication – plus details of an early-bird special pre-publication discount that is available exclusively to you.

Training for Triathlon reveals the very latest triathlon-specific training research, competition tactics and performance-boosting secrets – and spells out exactly how you can apply these race-winners today. Throughout this brand new special report, we dissect the major current debates over the best methods of training for triathlon, we disclose the pre-event preparation of the world’s best triathletes, and we share the strategy and tactics that are guaranteed to deliver on the big day.

Every page of this 91-page report draws on the latest evidence-based sports science thinking into the triathlon – new findings that usually remain the property of an elite few. This is your invitation to join them! It’s a rare opportunity to assess the latest sports science research for yourself, and decide how best to integrate it into your triathlon training and conditioning.

Reserve your copy NOW and you will make a profound difference to the quality of your training and performance. You will ensure you have given yourself an unfair advantage over your fellow triathletes.

BUT HURRY! The first edition of this book has been printed in limited numbers with a target audience of only the most committed amongst us. Reserve your place in this group NOW.

Here are some of the triathlete’s secrets that will be revealed.

All in all, 91 pages of cutting-edge information every serious triathlete and coach needs to know – and integrate into their training and conditioning programs, as well as their competition strategy and tactics.

WARNING: DO NOT ENTER ANOTHER TRIATHLON UNTIL YOU HAVE READ THIS BOOK!

Make sure you’re one of the very first triathletes to benefit from the training, conditioning and competition secrets in this brand new book, by reserving your copy TODAY.

Yours in sport

Sylvester Stein
Master Triathlete.


If you want to win a triathlon, it’s no longer simply enough to just swim, run and cycle…

Triathlon is a demanding multi-discipline sport – arguably the most demanding of endurance sports. As such it calls for high levels of endurance in the water, on a bike and on the road. But, while triathletes understandably spend most of their time swimming, cycling and running, they also need a supplementary resistance-based conditioning programme if they’re serious about competing at their very best.

The challenge is to design a program that will deliver maximum, proven benefits given the considerable weekly training commitments that the triathlon already demands?

In Training for Triathlon we set out the parameters for such a programme. We take into account the demands of triathlon as a sport and the need to integrate this programme into your already busy weekly training schedule? Any serious endurance-trained athlete finds it difficult to commit to – and recover from– extra training time, so a strength programme for triathletes has to yield the maximum results with the minimum expenditure of additional time and energy.

The programme we outline has two objectives at its core:

As such, it will target performance for running, and injury prevention for both running and swimming.

In all, four routines are detailed, each containing no more than six exercises that should be completed once a week. Strength routines 1 and 2 take about 45 minutes each, while the core and jumping routines should take around 20 minutes.

This level of time investment is realistic for triathletes and will deliver maximum benefits with no unwanted tiring effects.

Each of the 18 exercises is described in detail, along with easy-to-follow diagrams, and has been designed to require little or no equipment for you to complete. So you get all the information you need to judge which exercises are right for you, and to start putting them to good use right away.

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A conditioning programme to help you master the all-important transition from cycling to running

For the vast majority of triathletes, the cycle-run transition in triathlon represents a huge psychological barrier. But this widely-acknowledged perception that running is much harder after cycling is more than just the mind playing tricks. For the cycle phase presents some serious physiological challenges that all triathletes must overcome as they begin their run.

In triathlon, the cycle-run (CR) transition is associated with a number of changes, including an impairment in running economy. Specifically, there is a 2-12% decrease in running economy during the early part of the run phase (when compared to running economy in the ‘fresh’ state).

The most obvious external cause for this deterioration is a change in running mechanics, which is often apparent as a slightly forward leaning posture. It is thought that this abnormal posture and the perception of poor coordination after the CR transition may be due to the inability of the neuro-sensory system to adjust quickly to the sudden change of posture from cycling to running.

However there are also some less obvious and more fundamental physiological changes induced by the cycle phase. The fact that breathing discomfort also seems to be elevated during the early stages of the run phase provides some clues about the origin of these physiological changes.

In Training for Triathlon we report on the findings of some important recent French research into the issue of how to ease the cycle-run transition for triathletes – and most, interesting of all, what steps you can take in your weekly training and conditioning programme to minimise the likely effects of this on race day.

The discussion includes details of two different training programmes you can follow in order to better prepare yourself for the event. One programme has been shown to yield a 5% performance enhancement, and the other a 4.6% improvement!


How to ensure you get the right balance between effort and recovery

It’s now widely understood that well-timed rest is one of the most important factors of any training programme, as the effects of training sessions can be negligible – or even detrimental – if insufficient rest and recovery is built in.

During training, performance temporarily decreases but begins to rise during recovery. After a certain amount of time, performance rises above the pre-training level because the body is preparing to handle the next training load better than before. If the body does not receive the next training load within a certain period of time any performance gain begins to slowly decrease.

However, if the next high-intensity session is held before the body has recovered from the previous one performance will remain lower than it would have been after full recovery. Continuous hard training with insufficient recovery will slowly lead to lower performance and a long-term state of overtraining.

And if you become overtrained, even a long period of recovery may not be enough to restore your performance to the original level, so you end up worse off than you were at the very beginning of the season!

The trouble is, the signs of overtraining are often hard to pick up, until an athlete has already overreached himself. In large part this is because athletes are, most of the time, inherently motivated to go hard. What’s needed is an objective monitor of effort expended, and its effect on a individual’s level of fatigue.

Now, new research into just such an objective assessment tool is revealed to you, for the first time, in Training for Triathlon.

We report on how this monitoring system works, where and how to get the necessary data, and how to put the information to devastating race-winning use.

This is the information that you need to deliver your most competitive triathlon season yet!

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How to train your mind to deal with the special demands of ultra-endurance effort

The world’s best triathletes aren’t just physically fit. They are mental giants as well. They’ve trained themselves to run, swim and cycle to their absolute physical limits. But they have also trained themselves to remain psychologically positive over long distances and durations even while enduring considerable physical fatigue.

The good news is you too can train your brain to develop emotional control. And when you apply the secrets that the elite triathletes use your newly learnt  emotional control will deliver sky-rocketed performance.

In Training for Triathlon we explain the secrets for developing emotional control.

Finally we give you some pointers on the best way to use self-talk to control that ‘inner voice’ inside your head.

A new breed of carbohydrate drink promises to deliver a genuine improvement in endurance performance

Which sports drinks are more hype than substance?
Which manufacturer's drinks deliver essential salts and which manufacturers’ claims should be treated with a large pinch of salt?

The marketing of sports drinks is a highly-competitive – and lucrative – business for the manufacturers concerned. But what do these drinks actually deliver to the triathlete? If you want to cut through the half-science and get the low-down on what actually works (and what is little more than hog-wash) you need Training for Triathlon.

But we also have fantastic news that you will want to be the first to know and put to use. The indications are that recent sports science research into carbohydrate absorption and utilisation could herald a new breed of carbohydrate drink – one which promises genuinely enhanced endurance performance, rather than empty advertising slogans.

In Training for Triathlon we present the ground-breaking findings of this recent research – and suggest possible strategies for coaches and triathletes who want to capitalise on this important new information.

First we explain the importance of consuming carbohydrate during endurance events, and the background to modern carbohydrate drink formulation. Then we present recent research on the potential benefits of mixed carbohydrate drinks made using this new formulation, and make recommendations for endurance athletes.

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Do you know about the recently discovered ‘magic bullet’ for triathletes?

Genuine advances in sports nutrition are rare, which is why the discovery back in the 90s that creatine supplementation really did improve anaerobic performance created such a stir. However, apart from caffeine use, there’s been no equivalent ‘magic bullet’ supplement for aerobic athletes, such as triathletes.

Now there are early signs that situation is about to change dramatically…

New research on a naturally occurring compound found in a number of foods, including fish, rice, green leafy vegetables and soybeans, is looking like it may deliver paradigm-shifting results for aerobic athletes. And we report on these findings in depth in Training for Triathlon.

Firstly, this substance is naturally occurring. Secondly this substance is required for the functioning of all mammalian cells. In humans it’s found in particularly high concentrations in the membranes of cells with a high metabolic activity such as the brain, heart, liver and skeletal muscle.

Recent research on this substance has not yet reached the mainstream community of athletes. But Training for Triathlon reveals how this research suggests that it is involved in a number of membrane-related functions in cells, including how cells communicate with each other, the regulation of the release of hormones such as acetylcholine, dopamine and noradrenaline secreted by nerve cells, and the way in which tissues respond to processes involving inflammation.

Researchers noticed that supplementation seemed to enhance higher brain function – even in healthy individuals with no signs of cognitive decline. Of particular interest was the effect on the secretion of stress hormones such as cortisol following exercise. Chronically or excessively elevated levels of these stress hormones are known to be associated with immune suppression and tissue breakdown – with devastating results for athletes!

The next step of the story came when researchers looked at the effects of long-term supplementation on post-exercise cortisol production following strenuous resistance training. They discovered that not only did this substance appear to blunt the release of cortisol following training, but that it also led to lower perceived levels of post-exercise muscle soreness.

Most recently, research on a group of 14 endurance cyclists yielded a 29% increase in exercise time to exhaustion. The researchers concluded that their study had been the first to identify the ergogenic properties of this supplement but that further studies are needed to substantiate these initial findings and to investigate how these ergogenic effects might occur, the optimum doses and the best time to use it.

Currently, the scientific consensus is that the substance has no negative side effects – and a growing number of engogenic benefits. The only major known drawback is cost: a tub of 60 x 500mg capsules purchased in the US typically costs in the region of $20-25, with UK prices significantly higher still. So athletes need to ask themselves whether that money could be better spent on improving dietary fundamentals or other aspects of training.

Whether or not you choose to experiment, there’s still much to learn about exactly what benefits this exciting new supplement may be able to offer, so triathletes and their coaches should keep their eyes peeled for new research in this exciting area.

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A new swimming strategy that will ensure you get out of the water in front of the pack!

Most of the sports science research recently devoted to investigating the determinants of successful triathlon performance has focused on the cycle-to-run transition, since significant correlations have been reported between cycling or running time and overall triathlon performance.

The influence of swimming on subsequent cycling time has been relatively neglected. Until now…

We bring you breaking news of a recent study from France that demonstrates just how improvements in your swimming strategy can significantly improve your subsequent cycling efficiency and will therefore vastly improve your triathlon performance in general.

The headline findings of this study are:

This essential research will develop a new swimming technique that could put you on the winner’s podium in your very next event!

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