Properly planning your training and using the off-season wisely can bring a bonus, and you will enter the 2012 season with better technology, endurance and confidence. One particular area of focus on technology during this period is swimming.
Many triathletes still tend to spend time purely endurance in the winter, and three coaches from Absolute Tri, Steve Lloyd, commented: "At this time, many triathletes still prefer to do a hard training. It's not technology, so they can leave the pool and feel that they have done a good job. The combination of the two is crucial. If you feel that you don't have time to put in the technology, try to adapt to your endurance by shortening your warm-up and cooling. Training. Next."
How does this affect your conversation? An example is that instead of warming up 400 meters, some pull, then the main set, do a 200m slowly warm up to focus on the perfect technique – then spend the next 5-10…
Triathlon training skills – off-season training was originally published on Spring