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10 Ways to Enhance Your a Sprint Triathlon Training For the New Year
Are you thinking about signing up for a sprint triathlon this year? Perhaps you’re a complete beginner just trying to decide if sprint triathlon training is right for you. Or maybe you’re a seasoned veteran of triathlons, but you want some handy tips to enhance your triathlon training this year.
No matter who you are, the Rock Star Triathlete Academy has designed 10 ways to make your sprint triathlon training productive, efficient and enjoyable.
1. Sign-Up Now. That’s right. Don’t wait until 4 weeks out from the race. By signing up right now, you’ll trigger some very powerful components of your psyche – specifically the parts that inspire you to get off the couch or out of bed and begin your sprint triathlon training. The pressure of knowing that you are signed up for an event provides intrinsic motivation (“must be ready!”) combined with extrinsic motivation (“can’t embarrass myself!”. The latter motivation will be even more powerful if you tell the whole world that you signed up for a sprint triathlon. Read the rest of this entry »
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How to Begin Training For Your First Triathlon
Triathlon is one of the fastest growing sports in the world and every weekend millions of adults drag themselves out of bed to swim, bike, and run for a couple of hours. For anyone who has never tried triathlon before, it can seem like a tall order to even contemplate entering a triathlon. If you are a beginner, you will need to know how to begin training for your first triathlon so you can be confident of actually making it to the finish line in one piece!
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Triathlon Wetsuits – An Excellent Advantage For the Modern Endurance Athlete
Swim, bike, run – Triathlon is the truest test of endurance for the modern athlete. Other singular endurance events exist such as cross-country skiing or even motorsport endurance races, but the essence of Triathlon is to seek a truly level playing field through the combination of three different types of racing. The leveling affect of Triathlon itself does not mean that the individual competitors won’t squeeze every advantage are seek every edge in order to achieve maximum bodily performance. Triathlon wetsuits are one of the areas in which many serious competitors have found an edge, not to mention the advantages to competitors who may be new to the sport.
Wetsuits are one of the few allowable pieces of equipment for the swim portion of a triathlon race, and their use has been a constant source of debate among those within the sport. In the early years when wetsuits were first used by triathletes, they were primarily used for cold water events and the suits used were intended for scuba diving or other diving activities. Being that those types of suits were not generally designed for speed swimming, triathlon wetsuits were later invented by those within the community, tailored specifically for open water swimming. Read the rest of this entry »
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