Beginner Triathlete - Training articles

Triathlon Coach explains Zone 1 and Zone 2 training and the benefits of each training zone

Comparing Heart Rate Formulas: Age, Karvonen, Leger, MAF and Friel.

These workouts are all designed for beginners and range in length from 400m to 1200m – hopefully providing some useful workouts until you are able to tackle the 2000m+ workouts.

Learn why two bottles behind the saddle along with and aero drink bottle mount between the aerobars is the best combination of convenience and aerodynamics for HIM and IM racing.

The essentials of stroke count with respect to freestyle swimming.

A strong core will allow you to keep optimal body alignment for whatever you’re doing (swim, bike or run), and this in turn will reduce your fatigue in the long run.

One of the hardest races to ‘pace’ is a half marathon. We know a 5k is pretty much a ‘best effort’ type of race and a marathon is usually run at a long run pace - what about in the middle?

A three month program designed to help beginning swimmers improve technique for a sprint distance race.

I’m not going to sugar coat my experience and tell you that it was a piece of cake, but I am going to attempt to give you some advice and useful information that I wish I had before participating.

Strategies to make sure your triathlon swim anxiety doesn't ruin your race

A guide that takes you from check-in to the finish line for your first Ironman triathlon.

Definitely glad this weekend is out of the way as 145 miles of cycling and 27 miles of running in two days is a fair amount.

The goal of this section is to give others ideas on workouts for specific purposes.

Why being a jerk to triathlon newbies is ultimately counterproductive

In this month's article I will talk about swim frequency, pacing, technique, goggles, wetsuits, sighting, mass practice and open water training.