Ultimate Guide To Weight Training For Triathlon

The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Sports

by Robert G. Price

"The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Triathlon is the most comprehensive and up-to-date triathlon-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of nearly 100 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round triathlon-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results. No other triathlon book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book was designed specifically for triathletes to increase strength, speed, endurance, and stamina. This guide will have you shaving time off of all three events by using the most advanced and efficient exercises available. It will have you recording new personal records and reaching all of your goals. By following the year-round programs in the book, you will be able to finish meets with the same energy you exerted when you began. Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilize its programs. From recreational to professional, thousands of athletes all over the world are already benefiting from this book and its techniques, and now you can too!"

Genres: Fitness

Paperback

First published June 1, 2003

About the author

Rob Price is a first class certified personal trainer and a former fitness consultant at the University of Wisconsin. He is a national weight lifting champion and state bench press record holder who has been featured in newspapers and magazines all over the world, including the USA Today, for his sports-training expertise. Rob is a contributing author to Golf Fitness Magazine, Swimmer's World Magazine, US Bowler Magazine, and OnFitness magazine and is the founder and head trainer of SportsWorkout.com's e-Training service. In addition to being an internationally recognized fitness expert, Rob also holds a Juris Doctorate from The Ohio State University where he was honored as one of ten Moritz Scholars.

Reviews

[Hepe · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was disappointed in the information in this book. My expectation was that the book would help me gear my weight training specifically towards triathlons or at least let me know why each exercise was good for triathlon.

Instead, it felt like it was just a repackaged version of every other exercise book (I am interested to see if the other books in the series seem the same). There is a brief discussion specifically about triathlon at the beginning but the rest is just generic exercises. I gave it 2 stars because the exercises are presented well. It would be fine that they weren't original exercises if the discussion or notes about them made some reference to the sport of triathlon. Just a note here and there such as "this exercise is particularly helpful for the swimming leg of the triathlon." Or even that the particular exercise wasn't going to help with a specific part of the triathlon but would good for a balanced program or for overall strength building. But nothing. If you tore out the middle section you would have no idea that it came from a book that was marketed to triathletes.
I would only recommend this book to someone training for a triathlon if they did not already have a weight training routine and did not have another resource (e.g. a more generic book for weight training).

[Maciej · Rating 2 out of 5]

Basic and many mistakes in writing.