Today we look how to get effective volume and why recovery should be an instrumental part of everything you do. We look at why it’s important to be aware of how and when you workout. We look at falling in love with the weather, good and bad. We talk about why summer can be the best time for base training. We look at making swim, bike and run EASIER. We talk about the Tour de France gravel stage and the importance of the day off. Spacing out your sessions and making sure you have enough fuel for your workouts.
Topics:
- Digging a hole to go nowhere
- Spacing volume
- The weather is what it is
- Year round structure and support
- The goal: always be fitter and faster
- Best time of year for base training?
- Using time and duration as EXPERIENCE
- How to embrace weather extremes
- The body is usually trying to warm up or cool down
- Using workouts to learn
- Spacing out sessions
- Sometimes sleeping better is the best training
- Triathletes as masochists
- It’s not fun to beat yourself down
- Food and Fuel and ability to do more
- Gravel stage of the Tour de France
- Hammered in training . . . hammered in life
- Too much intensity
- Building your ability to recover
- Paying attention to when and how you workout
- Take time to peel back the layers
- Avg. power and normalized
- Training can be energizing and/or draining
- You need breaks
Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com
Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com