- Let's dive into this.
Don't worry, I'm on the mend.
A 14 year old dog just jumpin' off couches.
Good well into the afternoon Trainiacs.
It is a quarter to three and as you know
I am on forced rest.
Don't worry, I'm on the mend.
Takin' a little bit of Vitamin D, getting some rest,
did not doing anything today,
probably not gonna do anything tomorrow.
I can feel the energy soaking into my body.
This timing actually isn't the worst because
yesterday I launched triathlontaren.com/coaching.
I teased it a little bit in yesterday's blog
but what we're gonna do today,
because there is no training, there is no workout
to talk about, there is nothing besides
triathlontaren.com/coaching.
So what we're gonna do here today
is I figured I might as well just
open up the curtain and let you know
what the triathlon training programs look like.
Okay, so this is it, that is the home base.
I wanna show you a little bit of
the in behind the scenes stuff.
As I mentioned, everything is on triathlontaren.com/coaching
and until the end of the month, actually the end of June,
I've set up a 20 percent discount for everyone
and it's Trainiac20 so all the prices
for the sprint, olympic and half-ironman programs
that we've created, you can get 20 percent off
because you are the first bunch of people
that will be buying this and it's our first go at it.
What we're doing is we are compiling
everyone's questions, their feedback, their suggestions,
the FAQ that comes in and as we get all those suggestions,
we will make the plans better.
So, for getting in on the ground floor early,
supporting us and understanding that
the programs are going to be a work in progress
and you will get the improvements as they come out,
I wanted to give everyone a 20 percent discount.
Let's dive into this.
This is the homepage that you would see
when you go to the site.
In behind the scenes, what we've decided to use
is not training peaks, it's not garment connect,
it's not just sending you out a .pdf of a spreadsheet.
I haven't used any of that.
What I've used is a platform called Teachable
which is actually meant for designing online courses
like tutorials.
Why I've done that is because it's super easy
to manage everything and make sure that it's
stored in the cloud, there's nothing that's gonna crash,
all of your personal payment data I can't even see
but I can actually manage it
and one of the really nice features that I've actually
had to use in the 24 hours that this has been up
is somebody said, oh, Taren, I forgot to put in
the coupon code.
Super easy for me instead of having to get any
credit card data, I just go in and I go like so
and I go to your transaction and your detail
and refund and I type in how much the refund is.
And then if anyone has any issues with it
there is a 30 day no questions asked
money back guarantee.
The last thing that I want from this program
is to have anyone be dissatisfied.
If anything, I want this program to be so damn good
that you all start Instagramming about it and Tweeting
and Facebooking about it, when anyone says
who should I get to do my coaching plan,
you say without a doubt Triathlon Taren
and Coach Pat's training program is the best there is
out there.
I am trying to over-deliver on this so much
that it would be silly not to use it
and if anyone is dissatisfied with it, I don't want that
to be the case so 30 days, no questions asked,
money back guarantee, you got an issue with it
(snaps fingers)
we just go through this process and boom, you square son.
Okay so let's go back to these coaching plans.
So let's say you've purchased the half-ironman
triathlon training program.
That's been the most popular so far.
This is your home page, this is what you'll see
when you log in.
All of the plans so far, the half-ironman,
the olympic and the sprint, they're all designed
for beginners and they've all got this same
general format.
You come into the program and the first thing
that you'll see is this welcome to Triathlon Taren
and Coach Pat training E book.
Pat actually did this up, this is an 11 page document
where he walks through his philosophy
for why he set up the training in the way
that he set it up.
I think that is probably way more valuable
than just the spreadsheet of here's what you do
on every single day.
This actually teaches you how to train,
how to train yourself, what to look for,
what to understand, when to push yourself,
when to hold back, what certain things mean
and before Pat even got into anything
as far as the exact training plan goes
he wrote this book because he wanted to sit
and think about, alright, what are the messages
and the key pieces of knowledge that people
getting into their first, second, third, fourth,
one of their first several triathlons.
What do they need to know?
So it goes through who the program is built for,
how you get started, where you can find everything
and reach us online, on Instagram, Facebook,
on YouTube.
Pat tends to train people in three week training blocks
where you do two weeks of hard work
and one week of rest and then he also,
what he does, he calls it periodization
of your training program so the first period
is building a base of fitness, building a base
of strength, then into polarization so that you're
changing up some speed to encourage your body
to get faster, then starting to taper
close to race simulation.
He explains why you train the amount that you train
and why he's built some of the workouts so that
some are more intense and the next days are lower.
And he hasn't given too too many outright rest days
as opposed to an outright rest day, he wants to give you
just a lower volume day so that you can keep progressing
and not just having an outright rest day
and getting slower.
How hard is it gonna feel and how hard should
the workouts feel.
He gives you a full chart of your zone
for the rates of perceived exertion,
talks about the swim and why the swim, the bike
and the run workouts are designed the way that they are.
Gives a little bit of information on nutrition
for what to eat before the race, leading up to the race,
the evening before the race, during the race,
after the race, all, like, awesome stuff
and how to recover.
Then getting into the daily training plan,
he's designed this out in a standard spreadsheet format.
On the left he's listed out what week number you're at
in the training program and what the purpose
of that week is and then he has the amount of weeks
until the race and then as you can see here,
every single workout is designed meter for meter,
minute for minute, exactly what you need to do,
how hard it should feel, how easy it should feel,
what the purpose is of that workout
and any comments as far as where you're at in the program
so you understand why you're doing what you're doing
that week and it takes you all the way through.
Going through two hard weeks, and then one rest week.
Two hard weeks and one rest week following
that periodization of building strength, building speed
and getting you all the way to that race.
That's your day to day.
So now we get into me wanting to completely over-deliver
and not just do triathlon training programs only
because I knew that over 50 percent of you said
that the swim was the biggest difficulty
as far as getting comfortable in the sport triathlon.
So what I created here was a one, two, three, four,
a five section basically how I learned to swim program.
I went from being afraid of the water,
having a hard time going across a 25 yard pool
to doing, hang on, a 27 kilometer, open water
marathon swim and having no problem with it.
What we start with is what items you need to buy
if you don't have any and links out to where
you can find them.
As you can see here it starts with an introduction.
Hello triathlon trainiacs.
If you haven't ever met me before on Facebook or YouTube
or Instagram, my name is Taren Gesell a.k.a.
Triathlon Taren.
Everything follows the same format
of there is a video to explain every single one
of the drills.
You stand at the edge of a shallow pool
with your hands.
Every single video is one drill at a time.
In addition to each of those videos
there is a brief written description
of the purpose of that drill, the tips and techniques
that you need to focus on when you're doing that drill
and the outcome of what's gonna happen
when you've conquered that drill and you're ready
to move on.
Every single one of the videos is downloadable
so you can download it to your phone,
take it to the pool and look at it on side deck.
So that first section is all about
learning how to be comfortable in the water
by blowing bubbles out in different ways
with different methodologies of getting comfortable.
The second one follows that exact same format
of a video for a drill and a description of the drill.
That autoplay is grating my cheese.
After you get comfortable in the water
and you can capture your breath without any difficulty,
we get into learning how to float so that you're not
pushing a bunch of water and fighting the water
and there are one, two, three, four drills
and four videos on that, actually one of the videos
is like five drills in one and that is like
the be all end all of what taught me how to swim.
Next section is alright, you're comfortable in the water,
you're floating, you're not fighting in the water,
how do we actually start, (sighing)
how do we actually start building a good quality stroke
and not developing bad habits.
There's a drill on a catch, there's a drill on pausing,
one, two, three, again four more drills
on how to build an efficient stroke with good habits.
And then finally the last section of the swim program
is one, two, three, four, four drills and then
a wrap up to the entire program.
These drills are drills that still to this day I do
and what these drill do is they reinforce
and remind your body about all of the good habits
that we tried.
14 year old dog just jumpin' off couches.
Reinforce all those good habits that we built
throughout the rest of the program.
That's Triathlontaren.com/coaching.
Because I'm not training today
and I can see that there are a ton of people
going to the coaching programs,
there's obviously a lot of curiosity
about what it's like in beside the curtain
so I figured I would peel it back
and take this opportunity of a rest day
to show you exactly what you get if you decided
to go there.
And as I mentioned, definitely use that trainiac,
not trainiacs, Trainiac20 coupon code.
I get it Gracie, I get it.
How can I not stop recording and pet her?
So I'm gonna end this vlog there and
if you have any questions hit me up on Instagram,
Twitter, YouTube and for anyone that has already purchased,
thanks, thank you, thank you, thank you so much.
Oh, and thanks for everyone who supported me
earlier this week when I was having a bit
of a pity party about negative comments
and the YouTube section.
You guys are great.
Later, Trainiacs.
Gracie did you just fart getting up?
You're not a lady.