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Swimming
- 6 FAQ's to Keep In Mind for your Race Day Swim
- Triathlon Swim Coach Kevin Koskella on questions common to novice triathletes.
- Surviving the Tri Start
- Triathlon Swim Coach Kevin Koskella offers tips for the nerve-wracking, tiring, intimidating, and frustrating swim start.
- Swimming vs. Golf
- Triathlon Swim Coach Kevin Koskella has recently taken up golf, and noticed some similarities with learning swimming.
- Are You Out of Shape for Swimming?
- Triathlon Swim Coach Kevin Koskella offers tips to help you get back to feeling the best you can in the water.
- How to Master the Top 5 Challenges to Breathing in Freestyle
- Triathlon Swim Coach Kevin Koskella discusses the top 5 challenges in learning how to breathe in freestyle, along with the remedies.
- 10 Steps to Improving Your Triathlon Swim
- Triathlon Swim Coach Kevin Koskella offers a "top ten" list of steps to improving your swim for a triathlon.
General Training
- Training Terms
- Fartlek?? On 45 sec?? T-Pace?? If you don't know what these training terms mean, check out the definitons here.
- The Basics of Strength Training for Multisport Athletes
- Strength training basics and sample workouts for triathletes
- Triathlon Overtraining
- Triathlon Swim Coach Kevin Koskella offers tips and recovery techniques for overtraining as a triathlete
- Periodization
- Periodization is a time management technique of training, where the training year is divided into specific periods related to the athlete's racing plans. It is the standard for triathlon training, and here's an explanation.
- Training Zones
- Most training plans are based on Intensity. Intensity is described by five training zones, Zone 1 to Zone 5. Athletes can use these zones to "tune" each workout for the best results.
- Heart Rate Training Zone Calculation
- If you can't get your training zones measured in a laboratory, here is a way to come up with a good estimation using the Karvonen method.
- Maximum Heart Rate Estimation
- Here are several methods for estimating your maximum heart rate.
- Rating of Perceived Exertion (RPE)
- Rating of Perceived Exertion is one way of measuring the intensity of a workout. If you do not use a heart rate monitor, then it is probably the best method to determine intensity zone.
- Cross Training for Runners
- Triathletes already know this, but one of the best ways to improve your overall fitness is to do more than one type of exercise. Here are some alternatives for runners.
Wellness Articles
- So, How Are Your Resolutions Going?
- It's February. If you are like most people, your New Year's resolutions may not be working out so well. In fact, most resolutions fail, but by reframing them, you dramatically increase the chances for success.
See Also
- Personal Training Articles
- Training Handouts
- Nutrition Articles & Handouts
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Presentations
- Training for Your First Triathlon
- Coach Ken's presentation at the United Hospital System, Physical Therapy & Athletic Training Rehabilitation, XºCEL Performance Educational Series, March 7, 2007.
- Race Day Nutrition and Hydration
- Coach Ken's presentation at the Becoming Tri-Wise seminar series at the LakeView RecPlex.
Maps
- Maps Home Page
- Chicagoland Trek and Danskin Triathlons
- 2009 Danskin Triathlon Bike Course
- 2009 Danskin Triathlon Bike Course - Google Earth Interactive Map
- 2009 Trek Triathlon and 2009 Danskin Triathlon Run Course - MapMyRun Interactive Map
- 2009 Trek Triathlon and 2008 Danskin Triathlon Bike Course and Tips
- 2009 Trek Triathlon and 2008 Danskin Triathlon Bike Course
- Annotated 2009 Trek Triathlon and 2008 Danskin Triathlon Bike Course
- 2008 Danskin Triathlon Run Course
- Pleasant Prairie Triathlon
- Pleasant Prairie Triathlon Bike Course and Tips
- Pleasant Prairie Triathlon Sprint Bike Course - Google Earth Interactive Map
- Pleasant Prairie International Bike Course - Google Earth Interactive Map
- Pleasant Prairie Sprint Run Course - Google Earth Interactive Map
- Pleasant Prairie International Run Course - Google Earth Interactive Map
Racing
- Transition: the (Oft Overlooked) Fourth Discipline of Triathlon
- Triathletes often overlook the place where they can easily take minutes off their race with a little preparation and smart thinking - the transition. Here's how.
- Race Day Checklist
- Don't be standing in transition looking for something you left at home. Use our checklist to make sure you have everything you need.
- Transition Tips
- Tips for faster and calmer transitions.
- USAT Drafting Rules
- Don't get a time penalty or disqualified. Know the USA Triathlon Drafting, Passing, and Blocking Rules.
- Chicago Triathlon Tips & Tricks
- The Accenture Chicago Triathlon (formerly known as Mrs. T's Triathlon) is the largest triathlon in the world and is popular with new triathletes. Here is some information to get you through it.
Gear and more
- The Care and Feeding of Your Tri Wet Suit
- You now have a triathlon wet suit. But it wasn't that inexpensive, and you need to take care of it.
- Quick and Easy Wet Suit Hanger
- Treat your wet suit right, with this easy (and cheap!) wet suit hanger.
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