I’m back on the Time Efficiency waggon again and here’s five top tips to ensure your time spent training as well as thinking about training is indeed ‘efficient’.

Divide Your Time
Cycle at weekends, run and swim in the week. In most cases you are more likely to improve your cycling by doing two high-quality rides at the weekend. Trying to cram too much in mid-week can be a sure fire way to reduce quality. Instead focus on running and swimming when you have less time during the week.

Coach Class
It takes some triatletes years to learn this simple fact - ‘your swimming won’t improve without technique coaching’. Those who receive regular stroke analysis enjoy there swimming more because they keep on improving. if you do not have access to regular coaching, paying for one or two video-coaching sessions per year is a worthy alternative.

Sweat The Small Stuff
Shave minutes off your triathlon times by making improvements in non-training areas. These include transition skills, pace judgement, nutrition, technique in all three disciplines and mental preperation. You might improve faster by learning more than you do from training. A few hours a week reading is time well spent.

A Second Opinion
A coach has one benefit over you, objectivity. Effective coaches see the bigger picture whereas triathletes can become bogged down in day to day worries. An experienced and eager coach can help you cut the junk, keep the quality and maximise your training time.

Quality Not Quantity
There are no prizes for clocking the most training time per week. Six high quality, well thought out sessions per week are better than ten that are unplanned, rushed and fatigued.

Happy training!!

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