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New Training Schedule

Alan Cole — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 11:14:22 +0000

I’ve been lucky enough to have Pete Jenkins writing a training schedule for me each month over the past couple of years. It’s nice to have and I tend to follow such a plan if someone else has written it. For a start I don’t have to spend time coming up with a plan myself...

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Training Intensity – Macro, Meso and Micro Scales

Alan Cole — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 06:24:09 +0000

One of the things coaches and experts in the field of sports training seem to be talking about these days is the fact that most of us tend to take the hard workouts too easy and even more so, the easy workouts too hard.In effect we end up doing almost all of our workouts at...

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Post Peak Slump

Alan Cole — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 08:08:14 +0000

My Periodised Training Plan that I was working towards along with my coach seems to have worked well. I peaked for my race at the Big Cow Triathlon and managed to attain my goal of qualifying for the ITU Age-Group World Championships. I may have been there, done that and got the ‘T’-shirt (thermal top...

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Periodised Training Plan

Alan Cole — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 09:12:11 +0000

In an attempt to improve my triathlon performances I’ve been working with a coach and I’ve been trying to follow a periodised training plan this year. Periodisation There are plenty of quite large books that go into great depths about periodisation in triathlon training (one of the best being Joe Friels “The Triathlete’s Training Bible“....

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