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Your first triathlon
Your first triathlon: what actually matters
Coming soonChoosing a distance
How long to train, and which distance to choose
Coming soonSwimming
Swim smarter, not just more
Coming soonOpen water
Open-water panic, and how to get past it
Coming soonTrain smarter
Adaptation
Adaptation
A workout doesn’t make you fitter. Recovering from it does. That one idea explains why rest matters, and why two athletes on the same plan get different results.
Read the guide →Strength
Strength training for triathletes
Strength work keeps you healthy and makes every stroke, pedal and stride cost less. The phases, the full-body session, why you train sideways, and how heavy to go.
Read the guide →The daily check-in
Why we ask how you slept, not your watch
Coming soonTraining intensity
Easy means easy
The most common training mistake isn’t laziness. It’s training every session at the same moderately hard effort: too hard to recover from, too easy to build anything.
Read the guide →Real life
Real life
Training around a busy life
Coming soonMissed training
Consistency, not perfection
Coming soonOff-season
Training without a race on the calendar
Publishes with the no-race plan
Coming soon
Fuel and race day
Fueling, hydration and race day
Fuel like you train
Train your gut like a muscle, why your fuel needs two kinds of sugar, and why more water is not better.
Read the guide →Race rehearsal
Rehearse your race before race day
Coming soonTaper
How to taper for a triathlon
Coming soonHealth and safety
Heat
Training and racing in the heat
Coming soonPain and injury
Sore or injured?
Pending professional review
Coming soon