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How to Prepare For Your First Triathlon
8 August 2015
We have a few tips that help you avoid common errors of beginners and unnecessary stress during preparation.
1. Health goes first
Trauma is the biggest fear of any sportsman, especially if you haven´t trained regularly before and your muscles haven´t got used to stress loads. Regular trainings with progressive loading in most cases guarantee sporting improvement without causing health risks. Training program must be designed so that the load increases gradually and your body has time to adapt to it. That is why it is highly recommended to keep a trainings diary where you note your well-being states and reactions to new types of load.
2. Never give up
If you run out of sport drive, don´t give up. Even professionals often have extreme tiredness in the middle of a training cycle, it´s a normal process. If you lost confidence and are ready to give up training – look back and realize how much you have ALREADY achieved.
Adjust your training schedule and find company for trainings – training together is always more exciting. Don´t worry if you don´t advance as fast as you wanted. You can finish in short distance races with average fitness and basic training. Yes, you will stop off to rest more often than others, yes, you will feel pangs of pain in your amidships but you will learn the spirit of competition, immerse in sport atmosphere and that is already something, isn´t it?
3. Start taper in time
If you train with a plan or with a coach you will know for sure when to start a taper. Ideally, you must come to the start full of energy but it isn´t worth relaxing either. Don´t fear to ease off. Temptation to train at full force before the race is big but it´s fatally flawed. However you can´t cease training at all – the frequency of trainings must stay the same, you only decrease the time and intensity.
4. Make sure you have support
In endurance races it is vital to feel support throughout the race. Invite your Friends to the race: seeing familiar faces at the start, knowing you aren´t alone help to get to the finish make world of difference – you will also have company to celebrate finishing the race. Find support team who will cheer you up when you run out of forces.
1. Health goes first
Trauma is the biggest fear of any sportsman, especially if you haven´t trained regularly before and your muscles haven´t got used to stress loads. Regular trainings with progressive loading in most cases guarantee sporting improvement without causing health risks. Training program must be designed so that the load increases gradually and your body has time to adapt to it. That is why it is highly recommended to keep a trainings diary where you note your well-being states and reactions to new types of load.
2. Never give up
If you run out of sport drive, don´t give up. Even professionals often have extreme tiredness in the middle of a training cycle, it´s a normal process. If you lost confidence and are ready to give up training – look back and realize how much you have ALREADY achieved.
Adjust your training schedule and find company for trainings – training together is always more exciting. Don´t worry if you don´t advance as fast as you wanted. You can finish in short distance races with average fitness and basic training. Yes, you will stop off to rest more often than others, yes, you will feel pangs of pain in your amidships but you will learn the spirit of competition, immerse in sport atmosphere and that is already something, isn´t it?
3. Start taper in time
If you train with a plan or with a coach you will know for sure when to start a taper. Ideally, you must come to the start full of energy but it isn´t worth relaxing either. Don´t fear to ease off. Temptation to train at full force before the race is big but it´s fatally flawed. However you can´t cease training at all – the frequency of trainings must stay the same, you only decrease the time and intensity.
4. Make sure you have support
In endurance races it is vital to feel support throughout the race. Invite your Friends to the race: seeing familiar faces at the start, knowing you aren´t alone help to get to the finish make world of difference – you will also have company to celebrate finishing the race. Find support team who will cheer you up when you run out of forces.