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The Time-Crunched Triathlete: Race-Winning Fitness in 8 Hours a Week by Chris Carmichael, Jim Rutberg

The Time-Crunched Triathlete: Race-Winning Fitness in 8 Hours a Week Chris Carmichael, Jim Rutberg ebook
Publisher: Velo Press
ISBN: 1934030619, 9781934030615
Format: pdf
Page: 171

So I ditched the I figured if he could take Lance Armstrong to 7 Tour wins through the Pyrenees, he might have an idea on how I could drag my fat carcass 100 miles across Kansas with less training time. In early March, a rider turned up at the first of the local spring series races with 500 kilometres in his legs since the start of the year (later to find out that many others had 4-5 times the distance in theirs) and self-seeded into the . Chris Carmichael even has a book on the subject: “The Time-Crunched Triathlete: Race-Winning Fitness in 8 Hours a Week”. I figured since I reached the end of the 8 week program designed to ready me for a Half-Iron Triathlon, I might as well go ahead and see what happens. The Time Crunched program is all about Intensity over Frequency, meaning that the workouts are fewer and shorter, but much more intense and full of interval training. I decided to So Friday after work I sat down to figure out a way to consume approximately 200-300 calories per hour for the duration of the workout. Apparently, all I needed to devise a successful regimen was a PHD in human biology and 15 hours a week on the bike. If you want to get started on some serious training but are not quite sure how to go about it, or want more of a systematic approach to the training you already do, you may be interested in Chris Carmichael's system for the time-crunched cyclist. Along those lines, I recently purchased "The Time-Crunched Triathlete: Race-Winning Fitness in 8 Hours a Week" by Chris Carmichael in order to get some better ideas on overcoming the time management challenge. So far I like what I see but can't help but notice the discussions on HIIT and VO2 Max efforts as quite important for the time crunched triathlete seem VERY CrossFit/CFE-esque. 8 weeks out from the race I strapped on my heart rate monitor, stuck Weird Science into the DVD, and mounted the spin bike in my basement. The Time-Crunched Triathlete: Race-Winning Fitness in 8 Hours a Week (The Time-Crunched Athlete) | Books. The advantage of this approach is the small time commitment required. With this new edition, cyclists can get fit faster with 8 time-crunched training programs for road racing, cyclocross, mountain bike events, Gran Fondos, century rides, and multi-day tours-all in under 6 hours a week.