Day 116: It’s all about the Core

How many times do we use the core muscles to do any of the three tri sports? All of the time! Of course when you have to dedicate your time to swim, bike and run, you don’t have enough days during the week to go from one sport to the other and on top of that, hit the gym for a strength workout. Trust us on this one. We are trying but it is just too much work! Especially when you have a full 8 hour work shift to fulfill every day.

However, when we cannot find an extra hour during the day, there’s always 10 minutes that we can get from one activity to the other to do a quick and short workout. These workouts might not be as tough as a regular one, but actually you can make it as hard as you want while including the right exercises.

When talking about TOUGH exercises to pick there a whole variety of CORE exercises that we can guarantee to make you sweat and “suffer” for as little as ten minutes. We found this great article at Training Peaks, with all the exercises you need to have a great Core Training.

Training the core gives you balance and helps you with the form of any of the three tri sports. If you only have 10, 20, 30 0r more hours a week to do some strength training, make sure to not only include these exercises but to base your workout around them. Once you find better balance with swimming, and better form with biking or running, you will celebrate this very smart decision.

Oh… and if you have more time and you are strong enough… you should definitely try the second set of exercises shown in the second video of the article… Best of luck!!

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