Strength Training for Triathletes: The Complete Program to Build Triathlon Power, Speed, and Muscular Endurance

by Patrick Hagerman

"Strength Training for Triathletes" offers a comprehensive strength training program for triathlon that will help triathletes build power, speed, and muscular endurance for faster racing over any race distance.

Certified USA Triathlon coach and NSCA Personal Trainer of the Year Patrick Hagerman, EdD, reveals a focused, triathlon-specific strength training program that will enable triathletes to push harder during training and on the racecourse when the effort is hardest. Triathletes who master this progressive strength training program will also become more resistant to injury, meaning fewer missed workouts.

"Strength Training for Triathletes" features 75 of the most effective strength training exercises for triathlon swimming, cycling, and running plus core strength and general conditioning. Full-color photographs illustrate each simple exercise, and exercises are grouped so athletes can focus on their own individual performance limiters. Hagerman simplifies the science underlying strength training, offering easy-to-follow guidelines on resistance and reps that will make triathletes stronger through every phase of the season.

"Strength Training for Triathletes" develops these abilities in
More powerful, longer-lasting musclesResistance to fatigue and injuryImproved body composition with stronger, leaner muscle massBetter performance without added bulk

New in this second edition are sample strength training programs for the most popular triathlon race distances and for each of triathlon's three sports, full-color photographs showing detailed body positions for each exercise, several new exercises, new indexes that specify body-weight exercises and weighted exercises, an exercise log template to track your goal weights, and a new index to improve usability.

Strength training often separates the top performers in triathlon from the middle of the pack. Even small improvements in muscle strength can add up to big race results. "Strength Training for Triathletes" makes it simple for triathletes of all levels to get stronger and race faster.

Genres: Sports, Nonfiction, Fitness

316 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 9, 2014

Reviews

[Joe Moya · Rating 5 out of 5]

Too the point and we’ll organized

One of the few books on the subject that doesn’t try to be different for the sake of being different. Easy to read and implement. I highly recommend.

[Pedro Pablo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nor bad

Good book. Very practical and gives you a general knowledge on the subject. Doesn't have enough exercises for my taste

[Livy Rich · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed that this book was straight forward, practical, and solid information. Some things I would love to see more of, more exercises. I appreciated the reasoning behind exercises and explanations about why training a certain way can be helpful, but that it may not be right for everybody. Overall a solid read, barely took any time, and walked away with some good information.

[Martin Biermann · Rating 5 out of 5]

The go-to primer on weight training for triathlets

I am an age-group triathlete (M60) at the end of his 3rd season. This book says it all - but at the expense of complexity. The best thing is to get started with a good personal strength trainer. When you have hands-on experience the book contains loads of useful advice and things will fall into place.

[Shane Paxton · Rating 3 out of 5]

Average Training Book

This book has the basic information that you find about anywhere on strength training. Positives of the book is the specific information on some leg exercises that will be helpful for triathletes. Wish there were more exercise programs in the book.

[Mark · Rating 2 out of 5]

Bodybuilding Exercises—for Triathletes

Lateral raises, *hammer curls*, and kickbacks—for triathletes? I hope I live long enough to see the end of the influence of bodybuilding on athletic training.

[Ahmed Salama · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great Book

Great book, and great strength stuff, very well organized, a lot of ideas and plan that help us so much

[Steve · Rating 3 out of 5]

Basic, but some solid advice. Wait 4 hours between workouts on the same day

[Semihorcen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Repetitive

[Jitse · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great overview of basic physiology and exercises, missed some information on how to combine it with triathlon training.

[Christophe Scheire · Rating 4 out of 5]

Duidelijk inzicht geven in het belang van krachttraining voor triatleten. Da's wat ik van dit boek verwachtte, en dat was ook wat het waarmaakte. Punt.