Triathlete Magazine's Essential Week-by-Week Training Guide
Plans, Scheduling Tips and Workout Goals for Triathletes of all Levels
Chapter One
IT STARTS WITH A PLAN
This book is not like a novel, which you need to read from start
to finish, without skipping anything. It's more like a big recipe
book that you can and should use one recipe at a time. There are 40
complete training plans (plus a pair of off-season training plans)
in these pages, at least one of which is a good fit for you today,
given your current fitness level, schedule, and event goals. But of
course you can't follow multiple training plans simultaneously. So
the way to use this book is to choose the best plan for you,
complete it, and then pick another, and so on.
This chapter, however, is required reading. Its purpose is to
give you the information you'll need to choose the right training
plans to follow and to get the most out of them. First I'd like to
explain the key features shared by all of the plans in this book.
Understanding the rationale behind each of these key features will
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