Period Three: Preparation for Race-Specific Training
Period Three training presents the opportunity to combine movement quality, functional strength, speed, coordination and skill, and higher-end fitness in a progressive plan to help you prepare to train specifically for your chosen events.
This means you're where you need to be as far as integrating your improved strength, power and speed, and using that high-end fitness to take your triathlon training to a new level.
And you will do it better than ever before because of better movement quality and true balance in your body.
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Period three offers the ideal time to see overall power development come into focus. The reasons are easy to see when we consider the definition of power: Power = Force x Velocity.
Through the work done in periods one and two, you are now able to:
- Apply more force to the pedals, water, and road or trail
- Apply that force more quickly
That means you'll be more powerful.
The training you do during this period allows you to express that enhanced power at fitness levels you've never experienced before.
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At Pursuit Athletic Performance, we define true fitness as:
- Optimal durability: Resistance to injury.
- Optimal efficiency and economy: Using less energy to perform at your goal race intensity.
- Optimal functional threshold/lactate threshold: Enhancing the physiological marker that is the most important for your race-day success.
- Optimal movement quality: Improved recovery rates.
- Optimal speed: Combining the elements above to make you faster than ever, without sacrificing your health or life balance to achieve it.
The offseason and pre-season are incredibly important to triathletes. If you're following a plan that allows you to ready your athleticism in the ways described above, you are on your way to fantastic, optimal performance results in the coming year and beyond.
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