Joe Friel > Quotes

“Novices need to focus only on the frequency of training by getting into the pool and onto the road often. If they do this with no concern for how long the workout is—short is fine—or how hard it should be—easy is best—they will make great improvement in their first year in the sport. The intermediate triathlete in the second and third years in the sport should focus on increasing the durations of swims, bike rides, and runs. Year 4 is the time when a triathlete should begin to give greater emphasis to workout intensity.”
― Joe Friel, The Triathlete's Training Bible: The World's Most Comprehensive Training Guide

“the three most important mental skills for success in endurance sports: commitment, confidence, and patience. Taken together, they form what we typically call mental toughness. Mentally tough athletes are hard to beat.”
― Joe Friel, The Triathlete's Training Bible: The World's Most Comprehensive Training Guide

“There are only three things to measure in your training: frequency, duration, and intensity.”
― Joe Friel, The Triathlete's Training Bible: The World's Most Comprehensive Training Guide

“It is not a matter of how much you train, but of how you train. —RICK NILES, TRIATHLON COACH”
― Joe Friel, The Triathlete's Training Bible

“No amount of fitness is worth an injury.”
― Joe Friel, The Triathlete's Training Bible: The World's Most Comprehensive Training Guide

“Applying these recommendations for a 150-pound (68 kg) athlete, the possible range, excluding the U.S. RDA, would be 3 to 6 ounces (84 to 168 g) of protein each day.”
― Joe Friel, The Cyclist's Training Bible

“But there always have been, and probably always will be, five ingredients for success in sport: Purpose: Know exactly what your goal is. Passion: Have a burning desire to achieve it. Planning: Determine how you’ll go about achieving it. Perspiration: Work hard, following your plan to achieve it. Perseverance: Don’t let anything get in the way of achieving it.”
― Joe Friel, The Triathlete's Training Bible

“Ciertos estudios han revelado que entrenar de tres a cinco veces por semana proporciona la mayor mejora en relación con el tiempo invertido, y que los entrenamientos adicionales dan unos beneficios menores proporcionalmente.”
― Joe Friel, Manual de entrenamiento del ciclista (Bicolor)

“En el ciclismo en carretera se valora mucho la resistencia, pero la fuerza para subir pendientes y la habilidad para esprintar y pedalear correctamente también son elementos importantes en la fórmula. Esta combinación única de habilidades es una de las razones por las que el ciclismo es un deporte tan difícil al entrenar. Un ciclista no puede limitarse a acumular kilómetros para desarrollar una enorme resistencia y dejar de lado la fuerza y la habilidad. Para destacar se necesita una mezcla de las tres.”
― Joe Friel, Manual de entrenamiento del ciclista (Bicolor)

“Existen muchas posibilidades de que el mejor deportista en potencia del mundo sea un fumador sedentario con sobrepeso. Ahora mismo, esta persona nacida para ser el campeón del mundo en ciclismo y para dominar este deporte como nadie más está sentado delante de la televisión en algún lugar. Nació con la ventaja de poseer una capacidad aeróbica enorme y todos los demás requisitos psicológicos necesarios para alcanzar el éxito. El problema es que nunca ha tenido la oportunidad de descubrir esta capacidad, y puede que nunca haya sentido la motivación. Tal vez nació en medio de la pobreza y tuvo que trabajar desde muy joven para ayudar a su familia. Quizá vive en un rincón del mundo asolado por la guerra, donde seguir con vida es la máxima prioridad. O quizá el ciclismo nunca le ha llamado la atención y se ha dedicado al fútbol o a tocar el piano. Nunca sabremos lo que podría haber sido.”
― Joe Friel, Manual de entrenamiento del ciclista (Bicolor)

“The more challenging the mission, the more your life must be focused on it. That means not only your training, but also your eating and sleeping, the support of your family and friends, and much more.”
― Joe Friel, The Triathlete's Training Bible: The World's Most Comprehensive Training Guide

“I recommend that veteran athletes partner with their doctors on two fronts. First, you should visit your doctor periodically for a heart-focused checkup and for ongoing assessments of your risk of CAD. You should monitor your risk factors and modify those that can be changed for the better. Additional testing such as a stress test makes sense for those at moderate risk. Second, you should take warning signs seriously. Problems such as chest pain or discomfort, unusual shortness of breath, light-headedness or blacking out, palpitations, and unusual fatigue should be investigated promptly.”
― Friel Joe, Fast After 50: How to Race Strong for the Rest of Your Life

“Act as if you are confident even if you don’t feel that way.”
― Joe Friel, The Triathlete's Training Bible: The World's Most Comprehensive Training Guide

“it is best if strength training is the first workout of the day in order to get the full benefit from your session. If this timing is not possible, you should try to get as much rest as possible between your morning aerobic session and your evening strength session.”
― Friel Joe, Going Long: Training for Triathlon's Ultimate Challenge

“Wishes are important; they’re the start of great feats. Wishes grow into dreams when you are able to mentally “see” yourself accomplish the wish. Dreams turn into goals when a plan for attaining them is defined. Goals become a mission when unwavering self-belief and purposeful zeal are realized. Big challenges require mission status. The difference between a goal and a mission is attitude. Passionate commitment is self-evident in successful missions. With the proper attitude, almost anything is possible. What you believe, you will achieve.”
― Joe Friel, The Triathlete's Training Bible

“The bottom line is that what you do in any given workout must be specific to the intended purpose of that workout if you are to reap the planned benefits.”
― Joe Friel, The Triathlete's Training Bible: The World's Most Comprehensive Training Guide

“If three or four extra pounds result from weight training, the increased power typically more than offsets the mass to be carried.”
― Joe Friel, The Cyclist's Training Bible

“Commitment is simply doing what you said you’d do well after the mood you were in when you said it has passed.”
― Joe Friel, The Triathlete's Training Bible: The World's Most Comprehensive Training Guide

“High-performance training means becoming the best triathlete possible. But that isn’t revealed only in race results. High performance is more than simply where you finish in your races. It’s also an attitude grounded in the belief that you can always get better.”
― Joe Friel, The Triathlete's Training Bible: The World's Most Comprehensive Training Guide

“4º MANDAMIENTO: ENTRENAR CON UN PLAN”
― Joe Friel, Manual de entrenamiento del ciclista (Bicolor)

“1ER MANDAMIENTO: ENTRENA DE FORMA MODERADA”
― Joe Friel, Manual de entrenamiento del ciclista (Bicolor)

“For your fitness to improve steadily over time, your training load must gradually increase.”
― Joe Friel, The Triathlete's Training Bible: The World's Most Comprehensive Training Guide

“the greater strength of the slow-twitch, endurance muscles following weight training allows them to carry more of the burden of powering the bike, reducing the role of the fast-twitch muscles. Since the fast-twitch muscles fatigue rather quickly, decreasing their contribution to the total force results in greater endurance.”
― Joe Friel, The Cyclist's Training Bible

“The only other time zone 3 is important to your performance is when you are in the final weeks of preparing for an event that will be largely conducted in zone 3, such as a gran fondo or century ride. Other than that, it’s best avoided, especially when concentrating on aerobic endurance.”
― Joe Friel, Joe Friel’s High-Performance Cyclist: The Complete Training Manual

“check of how training went that day. Review your workouts. Find one thing you did well. It does not need to be a big deal.”
― Joe Friel, The Triathlete's Training Bible: The World's Most Comprehensive Training Guide

“8º MANDAMIENTO: CONFÍA EN TU ENTRENAMIENTO”
― Joe Friel, Manual de entrenamiento del ciclista (Bicolor)

“7º MANDAMIENTO: MEJORAR LOS PUNTOS DÉBILES”
― Joe Friel, Manual de entrenamiento del ciclista (Bicolor)

“And, as we have seen, muscular force is a major component in time trialing, climbing, and sprinting.”
― Joe Friel, The Cyclist's Training Bible

“Low body fat is an important predictor variable for total time performance in triathlon.”
― Joe Friel, Triathlon Science

“When it comes to achieving high goals, the greatest limiter you face is not the many miles you train, but rather the few inches between your ears.”
― Joe Friel, The Triathlete's Training Bible: The World's Most Comprehensive Training Guide