Weight Training for Triathlon

Ben Greenfield

Description

Weight Training for Triathlon is the most comprehensive and up-to-date triathlon-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by top triathletes worldwide. This book features year-round triathlon-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results. No other triathlon book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book was designed specifically for triathletes to increase strength, speed, endurance, and stamina. This guide will have you shaving off time in all three events by using the most advanced and efficient exercises available. It will have you recording new personal records and reaching all of your goals. By following the year-round programs in the book, you will be able to finish meets with the same energy you exerted when you began.

Sujets

• Bibliographies
• Weightlifting
• Bibliography

Informations

• Publié par: Price World Publishing
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781936910656
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 17 Mo

Extrait

Weight Training for Triathlon – The Ultimate Guide
Copyright © 2012 Ben Greenfield
First Edition 2012
ISBN: 978-1932-54972-0
ISBN: 978-1936-91065-6 (ebook)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2011925170
Prior to beginning any exercise program, you must consult with your physician.
You must also consult your physician before increasing the intensity of your training.
Any application of the recommended material in this book is at the sole risk of the reader, and at the reader’s discretion. Responsibility of any injuries or other negative effects resulting from the application of any of the information provided within this book is expressly disclaimed.
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Table of Contents

“Introduction”
“Foreword by David Minkoff, MD”
“PART 1: Why Strength Train? ”
“Introduction”
“Research on Performance Benefits of Resistance Training”
“The Studies”
“Summary of Research”
“Recommended Methods of Weight Training”
“How to Use this Book”
“Weekly Implementation”
“PART 2: Getting Started ”
“The Basics”
• “Definitions:”
• “Workout Types”
• “Warm-Up”
• “Cool-down”
• “How to Breathe”
“Nutrition”
• “Nutrition Periodization”
• “Weight Training Supplements”
• “Nutrition Meal Planning”
“Recovery”
“PART 3: Exercises ”
“Static Stretches”
“Dynamic Stretches”
“Foam Roller”
“Core Exercises”
• “Planking”
• “Bridging”
• “Twisting”
• “Flexing”
• “Extending”
“Upper Body Exercises”
• “Vertical Pushing”
• “Horizontal Pushing”
• “Vertical Pulling”
• “Horizontal Pulling”
• “Raises”
• “Rotations”
• “Flexing & Extending”
“Lower Body Exercises”
• “Pushing”
• “Pulling”
• “Raising”
“Full Body Exercises”
• “Upper Body Pushing/Lower Body Pushing”
• “Upper Body Pulling/Lower Body Pushing”
• “Upper Body Pulling/Lower Body Pulling”
“Plyometric Exercises”
“PART 4: Workouts ”
• “Flexibility/Injury Prevention Workouts”
• “Swim Workouts”
• “Bike Workouts”
• “Run Workouts”
• “Full Body Workouts”
• “Core Workouts”
“APPENDIX:”
• “Workout Matrix”
• “Sample Meal Plan ”
• “About the Author”





Introduction

When I was first approached to write, “Weight Training for Triathlon - The Ultimate Guide,” I have to admit that I was a bit hesitant. After all, triathlon is about swimming, cycling and running, right? Would it really be possible to fill the pages of an entire book with a guide to weight training for a sport that seems to rely primarily upon endurance?
Don’t get me wrong: I know how to weight train. Throughout high school and college, I played tennis, and used weight training as a strategy to strengthen my rotator cuff and improve the power of my ground stroke and serve. While obtaining my bachelor’s and master’s degrees in exercise physiology and biomechanics at University of Idaho, I worked as a personal trainer, became a certified strength and conditioning specialist, managed the wellness program, taught exercise certification classes and dabbled competitively in other sports, including volleyball, basketball, water polo, bodybuilding and, ultimately, triathlon. Throughout this time, I continued to weight train – for both the perceived benefit to my sports and the aesthetic results.
Now, after nearly a decade of triathlon training and coaching at all levels and distances, I’ve had first-hand experience with weight training for triathlon. All my coached athletes use the weight training programs that I write for them, and two to three times per week, I continue to address my traditionally weak triathlon muscles in the weight room, such as my rotator cuff, my hips and butt and my core. Through personal experience, I’ve discovered that weight training gives me fewer injuries, better triathlon results, enhanced recovery, and, I must sheepishly admit, a nicer body.
But perhaps the personal experiences of a single coach and his handful of athletes aren’t quite enough to convince you of the importance or necessity of weight training. So, this book will begin with a review of studies to date on the effect of weight training on triathlon and endurance performance, and an explanation of how this science will be applied to the workouts and exercise programs later in the book. There are also anecdotes from young and old, age-grouper and pro triathletes who successfully implement weight training for injury prevention and performance.
Probably one of the most important parts of the research behind this book is that I realized in reading the research that much of what I’ve been implementing with my athletes and in my electronic books on weight training could be improved. Don’t get me wrong – the techniques I’ve taught in the past can get you very ripped and in very good shape very fast, but there is an ever better, more efficient way to get things done, which I learned more about and implemented in this book.
After getting the studies and basic understanding of the research out of the way, you’ll learn how to actually use the book. I’ll explain the chapter layouts, and how to implement the programs you’ll find in this book into a triathlon training season. You’ll learn the meaning of concepts such as periodization, how to change your sets and repetitions depending on the time of season, and you’ll be given a special matrix that uses each workout in the book to create a sample strength training season for beginner, intermediate and advanced triathletes.
Then we’ll get to the important stuff, beginning with the basics of choosing a proper weight, warming up, cooling down, breathing properly, using correct form, finding your way around a gym, and the logistics of effectively integrating strength training into a week of triathlon training. You’ll also learn the crucial details of pre- and post-workout nutrition, dietary supplements and “ergogenic” aids, and strategies for a faster recovery. Among the helpful appendices in the end of the book, you’ll also find triathlete-specific meal plans and recipes.
But the meat of this book will be the exercises and exercise demonstrations. I spent dozens of hours recording and producing photos that clearly show every preparation move, stretch, and exercise that I have found to be most effective for triathletes. Furthermore, for this book, I’ve chosen the “cream of the crop” movement patterns that will give you the fastest results in the shortest period of time. As a busy triathlete, you simply can’t afford the time to perform dumbbell curls and toe raises, so I’ll teach you powerful and effective weight training exercises that still leave you plenty of time to swim, bike and run.
Don’t worry – you won’t be given a library of exercises and expected to create your own workouts or plan your own program, although you certainly could use this book for that if you’d like. Instead, I’ve created a series of workouts in several different categories, including flexibility and injury prevention workouts, swim specific workouts, cycling specific workouts and full body triathlon workouts.
Incidentally, I do realize that the title of this book is “Weight Training for Triathlon - The Ultimate Guide” and, as such, the focus is upon actual training with extraneous weights and not martial arts-style body weight exercises, yoga, equipment-free core training, or other non-weight training modes of exercise. This book is very unique in that respect, and while this concept will be discussed in detail later, the basic idea is that, in order to increase power and strength, your muscles must be subjected to a gradual increase in load – which can be very difficult to do without the use of weights.
In summary, I’m very excited to give this complete project to you. “Weight Training for Triathlon - The Ultimate Guide” is the perfect companion to a long, injury-free triathlon career – whether you just want to perform a handful of sprint triathlons, qualify for world championships, coach other athletes in the art and science of weight training, or simply learn new weight training exercises and workouts.
Enjoy the book, and I’ll see you at the races.
Ben Greenfield
BenGreenfieldFitness.com





Foreword by David Minkoff, MD

As a kid, I was the best on our block at climbing the rope suspended from the big oak tree opposite our house. I could hand-over-hand it up and down with the speed of an orangutan. Once back down, I would, with pleasure, quietly notice the pump in my shoulders and biceps out of the corner of my eye. Since then, I have been hooked on strength. I was never really the pump iron type, but a pair of rings or a high bar got my juices flowing. Last summer in New York City I watched with amazement a group of break dancers doing a routine in Washington Park. Like coiled springs with iron muscles, they went into one armed handstands while pulling their legs into a lotus position and then sprung back to their feet without missing a beat or even an effort of breath. These are not goony weight lifters that have trouble combing their hair and walk with the stiffness of an Atlas. They are art