Training

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The Training Calendar is a way to show how we are organizing all the workouts.

During the next 12 months we would like to train ourselves by following several training schedules that we found on the internet, in books and manuals. This approach will allow us to test the different alternatives that anyone can find out there when they are starting and don’t have any professional training advice.

Both of us have been into fitness for a while, training in our own ways, and we have learned a lot of useful material that we want to share with each other (Calli with swimming and Jose with running). We will learn all the biking together little by little.

The first 8 weeks we started by training for an Olympic distance according to a great website that we found and maybe some of you already know: www.bhtriathlon.com

After a recovery week and the introduction of strength training, we continue with a 12 week schedule that we found at www.triradar.com. We will also follow the training for an Olympic distance.

We will try to follow their schedule step by step; however we might make a few changes according to our necessities.

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Z1: Recovery – 60% to 65% of Maximum Heart Rate (MHR): Easy pace, feels nice and light.

Z2: Steady – 65% to 75% of MHR: Fairly easy pace. Easy enough so that you could breathe just through your nose if you wanted to.

Z3: Tempo – 75% to 80% of MHR: Fairly hard but sustainable pace.

Z4: Race Tempo – 80% to 90% of MHR: Hard pace, sustainable, but requires real focus.

Z5: Red Line – 90% to 100% of MHR: Very hard, requires real focus, not sustainable for long.

Source: www.triradar.com