Strength Training for Triathletes: The Complete Program to Build Triathlon Power, Speed, and Muscular Endurance - Softcover

Hagerman Ed.D., Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1937715310 ISBN 13: 9781937715311

Publisher: VeloPress, 2023

Synopsis

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 racecourse 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, and exercises 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 muscles
• Resistance to fatigue and injury
• Improved body composition with stronger, leaner muscle mass
• Better performance without added bulk

New in this second edition are sample strength training programs for the most popular triathlon race distances and for each of triathlon's three sports, full-color photographs showing detailed body positions for each exercise, several new exercises, new indexes that specify body-weight exercises and weighted exercises, an exercise log template to track your goal weights, and a new index to improve usability.

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.

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Book Description

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.

From the Back Cover

STRONGER MUSCLES LAST LONGER

TRIATHLON'S BEST-SELLING BOOK ON STRENGTH TRAINING

Stronger triathletes bring more power, speed, lean mass, and muscular endurance to race day. While time is a precious commodity for every triathlete, every bit of time spent strength training pays off. Add strength training to your triathlon preparation and become a stronger, faster, more resilient athlete.

Strength Training for Triathletes helps you line up a strength program focused on your individual needs. Whether you want to increase endurance on the swim, find more power on the bike, or fight fatigue on the run, the sport-specific exercises featured in this book make it easy to target your training for improved performance in any or all of the three events. Every exercise is clearly explained and fully illustrated, taking the guesswork out of good technique.

Many triathletes overlook strength training until race times begin to atrophy or muscular imbalances and weaknesses turn into setbacks. A personalized strength program is the answer. If you have your sights set on racing faster and farther in the season ahead, strength training will get you there.

Endurance, strength, and power are the keys to triathlon. Strength Training for Triathletes is your complete resource for building and balancing all three for superior performance season after season.

Get the advantage of a personalized strength program in as few as 90 minutes a week:

• Improve endurance, build muscle, or increase strength and power
• Focus your training on one event, or build an all-around program
• Target imbalances with exercises for specific muscle groups
• Create workouts for home and travel using minimal equipment
• Find the perfect mix of core, upper-body, and lower-body exercises for total body strength

Edition details

• Publisher: VeloPress
• Publication date: 2023
• ISBN 10: 1937715310
• ISBN 13: 9781937715311
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 232