Fast-Track Triathlete: Balancing a Big Life with Big Performance in Long-Course Triathlon - Softcover

Dixon MSc, Matt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1937715744 ISBN 13: 9781937715748

Publisher: VeloPress, 2017

Synopsis

In Fast-Track Triathlete, elite triathlon coach Matt Dixon offers his plan of attack for high performance in long-course triathlon―without sacrificing work or life. Developed for busy professionals with demanding schedules, the Fast-Track Triathlete program makes your PR possible in Ironman®, Ironman 70.3®, Rev3, and Challenge triathlon in about 10 hours a week.

Training for long-course triathlons once demanded 15-20 hours each week―on top of work, family, travel and other time commitments. For many, preparing for long-distance triathlon is more challenging than the race itself.

Now Fast-Track Triathlete opens the door to your best performance in full- and half-distance triathlons in half the traditional training time. Dixon’s laser-focused, effective approach to workouts, recovery, strength and mobility, and nutrition means you can prepare for triathlon’s greatest challenges in just 7-10 hours per week for half-distance and 10-12 hours per week for full-distance.

Fast-Track Triathlete includes

· Dixon’s complete guide to creating a successful sport and life performance recipe

· How to plan out your triathlon training

· Scaling workouts for time and fatigue

· Training and racing during travel

· Executing your swim-bike-run and transitions plan on race day

· 10-week off-season training program with key workouts

· 14-week pre-season training program with key workouts

· 14-week comprehensive race-prep full and half training plans with fully integrated strength and conditioning

Dixon’s first book, The Well-Built Triathlete, revealed his four-tiered approach to success in all triathlon race distances. Fast-Track Triathlete turbocharges Dixon’s well-built program so even the busiest athletes can achieve their long-distance triathlon dreams without sacrificing so much to achieve them.

About this title

Book Description

Fast-Track Triathlete offers triathletes a plan of attack for high performance in long-distance triathlon without sacrificing work, life, and relationships.

From the Back Cover

You can have it all . . . and triathlon, too.

It is hard to win at life when you are training for long-course triathlon. That’s because training for an Ironman® race is like a part-time job. Too many athletes make big sacrifices only to burn out or underperform.

Coach Matt Dixon opens the door to long-course racing for every athlete who has never had the time to take on a challenge this big. If you have 10 hours a week to train, you can do an Ironman. In as few as 7 hours a week, you can do an Ironman 70.3®. It may come as a surprise, but more is not better if it comes at the expense of the rest of life.

Fast-Track Triathlete offers you a custom training program and everything you need to know to make important decisions on volume and intensity on a weekly and daily basis. Dixon opens up his vault of workouts, sharing key sessions for both postseason and preseason training, and reveals a complete training plan for the 14 weeks leading up to your goal race. You get unprecedented access to the winning method of a world-class triathlon coach, including:

· 14-week comprehensive training plans for the buildup to Ironman and Ironman 70.3 races

· 10 weeks of key workouts for the postseason

· 14 weeks of key workouts for the preseason

· Instruction on scaling workouts for time and fatigue

· Travel protocols for training and racing

· A sport-specific strength and conditioning program

Dixon’s program will bring your triathlon goals within reach and develop you as an athlete season after season. The Fast-Track approach to triathlon will help you achieve fulfillment and success in sport and in life.

Matt Dixon is a world-class triathlon coach, former professional triathlete and elite swimmer, and an exercise physiologist. His Purple Patch coaching community is based in San Francisco, but his athletes span the globe. Matt is the author of The Well-Built Triathlete, a regular contributor to sports magazines and publications, an Ironman U® master coach, and a corporate speaker.

About this edition

• Publisher: VeloPress
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1937715744
• ISBN 13: 9781937715748
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384