The Well-Built Triathlete: Turning Potential into Performance
In The Well-Built Triathlete, elite triathlon coach Matt Dixon reveals the approach he has used to turn age-group triathletes into elite professionals.

Instead of focusing narrowly on training and workouts, Dixon reveals a more comprehensive approach that considers the whole athlete. Dixon details the four pillars of performance that form the foundation of his highly successful purplepatch fitness program, showing triathletes of all abilities how they can become well-built triathletes and perform better year after year, and considers the demands of career and family and the ways different personality types prefer to approach training. The Well-Built Triathlete includes:
  • Guidelines and protocols to improve training consistency and recovery
  • No-nonsense advice on triathlon nutrition, fueling, and hydration
  • Functional strength tests and exercises to launch a program that builds resiliency
  • Two-week sample training blocks for every phase of training as well as race prep for Olympic, Half Ironman, and Ironman events
  • Workout sessions to evolve swimming, cycling, and running fitness

The Well-Built Triathlete helps triathletes apply Dixon’s approach to their season and training plan. Chapters on swimming, cycling, and running explain the most effective ways to train for each. A purplepatch section shows how triathletes can peak their fitness for long streaks of high performance.

Dixon’s holistic, whole-body approach to triathlon will help triathletes become greater than the sum of their workouts. By becoming better all-around athletes, well-built triathletes will train and race faster than ever.
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The Well-Built Triathlete: Turning Potential into Performance
In The Well-Built Triathlete, elite triathlon coach Matt Dixon reveals the approach he has used to turn age-group triathletes into elite professionals.

Instead of focusing narrowly on training and workouts, Dixon reveals a more comprehensive approach that considers the whole athlete. Dixon details the four pillars of performance that form the foundation of his highly successful purplepatch fitness program, showing triathletes of all abilities how they can become well-built triathletes and perform better year after year, and considers the demands of career and family and the ways different personality types prefer to approach training. The Well-Built Triathlete includes:
  • Guidelines and protocols to improve training consistency and recovery
  • No-nonsense advice on triathlon nutrition, fueling, and hydration
  • Functional strength tests and exercises to launch a program that builds resiliency
  • Two-week sample training blocks for every phase of training as well as race prep for Olympic, Half Ironman, and Ironman events
  • Workout sessions to evolve swimming, cycling, and running fitness

The Well-Built Triathlete helps triathletes apply Dixon’s approach to their season and training plan. Chapters on swimming, cycling, and running explain the most effective ways to train for each. A purplepatch section shows how triathletes can peak their fitness for long streaks of high performance.

Dixon’s holistic, whole-body approach to triathlon will help triathletes become greater than the sum of their workouts. By becoming better all-around athletes, well-built triathletes will train and race faster than ever.
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The Well-Built Triathlete: Turning Potential into Performance

The Well-Built Triathlete: Turning Potential into Performance

The Well-Built Triathlete: Turning Potential into Performance

The Well-Built Triathlete: Turning Potential into Performance

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In The Well-Built Triathlete, elite triathlon coach Matt Dixon reveals the approach he has used to turn age-group triathletes into elite professionals.

Instead of focusing narrowly on training and workouts, Dixon reveals a more comprehensive approach that considers the whole athlete. Dixon details the four pillars of performance that form the foundation of his highly successful purplepatch fitness program, showing triathletes of all abilities how they can become well-built triathletes and perform better year after year, and considers the demands of career and family and the ways different personality types prefer to approach training. The Well-Built Triathlete includes:
  • Guidelines and protocols to improve training consistency and recovery
  • No-nonsense advice on triathlon nutrition, fueling, and hydration
  • Functional strength tests and exercises to launch a program that builds resiliency
  • Two-week sample training blocks for every phase of training as well as race prep for Olympic, Half Ironman, and Ironman events
  • Workout sessions to evolve swimming, cycling, and running fitness

The Well-Built Triathlete helps triathletes apply Dixon’s approach to their season and training plan. Chapters on swimming, cycling, and running explain the most effective ways to train for each. A purplepatch section shows how triathletes can peak their fitness for long streaks of high performance.

Dixon’s holistic, whole-body approach to triathlon will help triathletes become greater than the sum of their workouts. By becoming better all-around athletes, well-built triathletes will train and race faster than ever.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781937715113
Publisher: VeloPress
Publication date: 05/29/2014
Pages: 368
Product dimensions: 7.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range: 17 Years

About the Author

Matt Dixon is an exercise physiologist and an elite triathlon coach. Dixon has coached amateur and professional triathletes to over 300 Ironman® and Ironman 70.3® wins and podiums, 200 Ironman World Championship qualifiers, and several world championships.

He is founder and president of purplepatch fitness, a fitness and coaching company that caters to endurance athletes of all levels.

Dixon is an Ironman University Master Coach and a former professional triathlete and two-time Olympic trials finalist in swimming. He has a master’s degree in clinical and exercise physiology and contributes regularly to Triathlete, LAVA, Outside, and USA Triathlon magazines. He has also been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Men’s Journal, Outside, Men’s Fitness, and Men’s Health. Dixon is a Camelbak Global Hydration Adviser and Powertap Educator.

Table of Contents

Preface

Foreword by Meredith Kessler

1 Building a Foundation for Athletic Performance

Part I: Pillars of Performance
2 Stress & Endurance Training
3 Recovery
4 Nutrition
5 Functional Strength

Part II: Endurance Training
6 Swimming in Triathlon
7 Cycling in Triathlon
8 Running in Triathlon

Part III: Turning Potential into Performance
9 Mapping Your Path to Performance
10 Setting Up Your Plan for Training
11 Racing
12 What Experience Tells Me

Epilogue
Appendix A: Answers to Four Pillars Self-Assessment
Appendix B: Functional Strength Exercises
Appendix C: Training Templates
Index
Acknowledgements
About the Author

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