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Do you mean which order to use when doing 2 disciplines in the same morning, or which discipline to prioritize if you can't give them all equal attention? 

Same morning. But a little detail may help make you understand. I'm performing all workouts in a gym except my long run which are on Sundays. The gym has a 25m lap pool and every other equipment you can think of, which is very convenient for tri training. My general idea is to schedule the shorter workouts with the swims, and that workout can be interval, hills and so on for Bike or run. I would prefer to do swim second so I can jump in shower from there as oppose to swim, dry, dress, bike/run, shower, dry again, dress, go to work.

It's more for convenience then anything else. Basically where would I change that format, outside of brick workouts, so as to not affect the overall training? Where should I be carefull?

excelent! Thanks.

I'm starting to get a grasp of planning and training for three discipline.

I followed Jorge's 30 min time trial test (http://jorgepbmcoaching.blogspot.com/2008/11/30-min-time-trial-test-for-hr-users.html) to try and get my LTHR for the bike.  Over the 30 minute period, my average heart rate was 166.  So my LTHR should be 161 with the following zones:

Z1	-	109
Z2	111	134
Z3	135	151
Z4	153	169
Z5	171	-

Does that sound right?

Anybody following Jorge's 12-week cycling plan?  Thinking about starting it up this week.

Ok, my january goals are as follows:

1) Get back up to 16 miles on my long run
2) Get at least 2 bike rides greater than 60 miles
3) Do at least 10,000 yards in the Pool

My goals are the following.

1. lose 5 lbs
2. get back in the pool
3. get in a routine

My January goals are:
1) Build running and biking volumes to be ready to start 20 week HIM plan on 1/25.
2) Stay as injury free as possible
3) Keep losing weight

Start the 0 to 1 mile swim program (due to only 3 hour sleep last night I missed my workout this morning)
Train consistantly for the month, follow my plan.

My January goals:
1. I want 100 yard swim to be "easy"
2. complete a metric century
3. do 30 pushups in a row

January goals:

1. Do a 50 mile bike ride
2.Continue getting more comfortable in the water. Would like to be able to do 500yds by the end of the month.
3.Keep running injury free.

1) get consistent training in
2) get up to running 5k a couple days a week
3) lose 10lbs

1. Start swim training
2. Do the first few week's of Jorge's 12 week winter bike program.

 

3. Increase core strength (being able to do a specific set of ab exercises I have without having to pause in between).

My swimming observation of the day:

The pool where I swim has a couple organized groups that train together on various mornings with a coach on deck. Anyway, I'm pretty sure 95%+ of the people who train with these groups are triathletes. Some of them are better swimmers than others, but I'm always wondering how these big, strong, athletic people end up taking so many strokes per length. Today, I watched them a bit closer and I came to the conclusion that there are two primary reasons:

1) When their hands enter the water, very few of them glided at all, or if they did, they allowed their hand to sink down. Actually, most of them plunged their hands down into the water somewhat agressively, quickly getting their hands down 18+ inches under water, and not extending in front of them at all.

2) Very few of them finished their pulls all the way down. I'm not sure why this is, but many of them were stopping their pulls when their hands got just a bit past their waist line.

The net result of this is that there were a lot of very good athletes taking 18-25 strokes a length, which makes it really difficult to swim at a good pace unless you can churn some big RPMs.

Anyway, I'm not sure if any of you swim like these folks, but next time you're at the pool and warming up, make sure that when your hand enters the water that you extend and reach forward while you glide, and also that you keep your hand up within 4 to 6 inches of the surface while you're gliding, rather than letting your hand sink down. Don't pound your hand down into the water on the entry like you're reaching for coins on the bottom, but rather stretch for the wall in front of you. Also, make sure you're finishing each stroke all the way. You can check where your hand is exiting by touching your leg with your thumb as the hand comes out of the water. Compare that to where your thumb would touch your leg normally.

Just a few random thoughts....

-Matt

Great info. Will definately be paying attention to those pointers on Wednesday morning.

Thanks for the tips.

1.  decide which training plan to use (waiting for school to start so i can balance school and training)
2.  be able to swim 100 yds comfortably nonstop
3.  eat better

Got my core workout in tonight. First time using a fit ball, wow what a chalenge. I didn't expect it to be so hard to stabilize the ball, I guess I found some weak muscles.

My goals this year:
One of my main goals this season is to stick to the core workouts throughout whole season.
A second goal would be to not miss my endurance sessions. I miss a few last year and that hurt my performance for my two marathons I ran.
Third goal is to run the 30K race in March at under 2hr 30min. Ran it in 2:51 last year in the cold and rain, hoping for at least no rain this year.

In April start my sprint training for race, yet to be determined, in June.

Goals for the season

I started the couch to sprint program yesterday, although I did not make it the pool I did get on my treadmill for the first time in almost a year!! I was only able to run (slow jog) for 5 minutes straight and I am pretty sore today but plan to keep moving forward today with time on my bike and strength training.

I want to eat better and lose weight this year

I hope to be able to run a 5K in under 30 minutes!