Beginner Triathlete - Training articles

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.

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.

This installment of the BT Swim Series will focus on breathing. Before you can swim fast, you must learn how to control your breathing so that easy swimming does not leave you gasping after one lap.

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

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.

I went from 15 minutes to 9 minutes on 500m, this is how.

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.

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

I'm VERY negatively buoyant. It's so bad that if I exhale I will sink like a rock - I've literally sat down at the bottom of a 14 ft. pool numerous times. What can I do?

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

Learn how to train with lactate threshold and race faster as a result.

Becoming a Better Animal: How to Effectively Use Your Heart Rate Monitor.

How you can make your outdoor running work in any climate.

Please join us for a three-day endurance festival, including: new multisport discipline activities (aquabike and open water swim), yoga and wellness clinics in festival atmosphere.

The essentials of stroke count with respect to freestyle swimming.