- Training isn't purely about going harder,
faster, and for longer.
In order to improve, you need to train smart.
Now whether you're being coached,
you're following a program online,
or you're training yourself,
mistakes can start to creep in
that could be jeopardizing your rate of progression.
- Now, some mistakes are obvious.
Some we're not even aware that we're doing.
So we're going to be covering the more common mistakes
and then help you to avoid them.
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- Training is training, not racing,
and that might sound obvious, but it really
doesn't matter what others are doing around you.
Trust in your own program.
Getting beaten in training might seem hard
at the time, but think about the bigger picture.
You're the one who's going to be laughing
when you're winning on race day.
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Timing your pre-training fueling is a skill.
Too full, and you're likely to get a stitch
and have to stop or back off the pace.
And then the other end of the spectrum,
trying to train when you're too hungry
can be equally detrimental to your session,
even leading to a stitch of a different type.
And then look at the type of session you've got
coming up, if it's a long Arabic bike ride,
you want to have plenty of carbs that are
slow releasing to keep you going,
but then on the other hand,
if you know you've got a tough lapping special
type swim session, you're not going to want
to eat anything substantial in the two hours
leading up to it, otherwise you're quite
likely to see it again.
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- Once you add up the warm up, warm down,
setting up kit, chatting to training partners,
a session undoubtedly takes longer in real life
than when written down on paper.
So make sure you allow enough time,
because the last thing you want to have to do
is curtail your warm down or even worse still,
your main set due to a lack of time.
- And then also think about the order of your day
and the effects say a heavy gym session
would have on a key run that you might have later.
You maybe have a fasted bike ride,
we don't do that later in the day because
that'd be too long without food,
but also check the weather.
If you know it's going to be really icy,
then you probably don't want to do a bike ride
early on, you might want to flip that
to the afternoon and put your swim in the morning instead.
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As triathletes, we generally love to run, swim,
ride our bikes, or at least one of those three
and it can be tempting to do them sometimes
just for the sake of getting the hours in.
It might look good on your weekly schedule
if you've clocked up lots of miles and hours,
but realistically, this is not what's going to make you
a better athlete.
It comes back to training smart, quality beats quantity.
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This is one I'm definitely guilty of,
but once I'm out the door, I just wish I'd gone earlier
and I wish I could bottle that feeling you have
after a key session and those endorphins.
Getting your training done earlier in the day
is best if you can 'cause then you can relax,
you know you've done it.
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Being comfortable when training
will allow you to focus purely on your performance.
Use your easy and shorter sessions to wear in
new kit, check the forecast so you're dressed appropriately.
There's nothing worse than getting too hot running
and having to carry all your layers home with you.
And most importantly, have a checklist
if you've got to travel to your sessions,
'cause it's pretty upsetting if you turn up to swim
and you realize you've forgotten your swimsuit
or you go for a bike ride, take your bike
out of the car and realize you don't have your helmet.
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- Now you see this one happening all too often.
When you've missed a session,
it is all too tempting to kind carry that over
into the next day, but this could end up hampering
key sessions in the following days
with multiple poor sessions rather than one good one.
And in the worst case scenario,
you could end up injuring yourself
from cramming too many sessions
into a short period of time.
The best thing to do is focus on what
you can control.
- All right, hands up, I know
that I am most certainly guilty of quite a few
of those, but I want to know if you are.
So be honest with me, and let me know in the
comments section below.
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