“The murky middle.”
That’s where a lot of triathletes spend way too much time.
And it’s the place where dreams and goals go to die.
What are we talking about?
Well, in endurance training, you want almost all your training to either be hard, or easy.
You might have heard of this as the 80:20 rule.
80% should be easy enough that you can still hold a conversation as you do it, and you should finish the session feeling pretty fresh…
While 20% should be an all-out suffer fest.
As for the stuff in between those intensities?
Well, it has its place.
But moderate training is going to only make up a very small portion of your program.
Problem is, most triathletes fall into a trap of doing their easy sessions too hard…
…and their hard sessions too easy.
They have a zone 1 or zone 2 session prescribed, get 10 minutes into it and think -
“This doesn’t feel nearly hard enough,” and then crank up the intensity.
And while they might be able to do that session just fine, they create more fatigue than they were meant to, and that then impairs their performance in their next hard session, meaning they don’t take the intensity high enough.
This is why it’s so critical to know when to push the pace and difficulty…
And when to pull it back and take things nice and slow.
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Regardless of whether you join us now or not though, just remember -
Hard sessions should be hard.
Easy sessions should be easy.
It sounds so obvious, but even the best athletes lose sight of this from time to time.
So stay disciplined.
Team Brownlee Fitness
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