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Summary: A perfect book for the first time recreational athlete.
Review: I am about to race in my first triathlon. I used the training program and advice offered in this book to prepare. I feel ready to race. The book helps the first time recreational triathlete train in a low stress and managable manner. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: A perfect book for the first time recreational athlete.
Review: I am about to race in my first triathlon. I used the training program and advice offered in this book to prepare. I feel ready to race. The book helps the first time recreational triathlete train in a low stress and managable manner. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Not For Triathletes with Swimming Backgrounds!
Review: I come from a swimming background, and I am focusing my training on the improvement of my biking and running skills. I still like to spend about half of my weekly exercise time in the pool. If you enjoy swimming, avoid this book. It is for the pool-fearing.
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Summary: Fulfills its mission
Review: Let's face it. A lot of us who want to and do compete in triathlons don't have 500-1000 hours per year to devote to the sport. We have careers, volunteer-work, family, and maybe even other interests (ya think?).This book provides the advice needed to as the author puts it "comfortably finish an Olympic distance triathlon." If you need advice on coordinating weight training, swim technique, improving your time through interval training, Fartlek training, etc. and other sport-specific-babble, then you will need to find another reference book to help you. If your aspirations are less lofty or you are a beginner, this is a good place to start your collection.
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Summary: A good start!
Review: This book is a great way to enter the world of triathlon. I gave it 4 instead of 5 stars because it is slightly incomplete and references other books. However, I think anyone who really gets into tris will find that this is generally the case. Glad I found this book to get me started! Oh, and regarding Miles vs. Minutes: Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I'll go with the Minutes system since world champions Mike Pigg and Mark Allen swear by it and I would be wary of the disparagement of this method from someone who has never done a triathlon.
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Summary: Great Book for Beginners!
Review: This book is an excellent read for the beginning triathlete. It takes you step by step through nutrition, basic aerobic fitness and finally into triathlon training. The only thing that I wish it contained were swimming and biking techniques. It explains which swimming stoke to use, but doesn't elaberate on the stoke itself. The author does, however, site many other authors on technique throughout this book that would be helpful. It seems that if the author added an extra chapter devoted to some basic biking/swimming techniques, this would be all the information you would need to get started.
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Summary: Great Book for Beginners!
Review: This book is an excellent read for the beginning triathlete. It takes you step by step through nutrition, basic aerobic fitness and finally into triathlon training. The only thing that I wish it contained were swimming and biking techniques. It explains which swimming stoke to use, but doesn't elaberate on the stoke itself. The author does, however, site many other authors on technique throughout this book that would be helpful. It seems that if the author added an extra chapter devoted to some basic biking/swimming techniques, this would be all the information you would need to get started.
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Summary: It does work
Review: This book is just wonderful for those who wonder whether they can do their first triathlon. Author gives very useful advise for buliding up aerobical base and then prepare to the first olimpic distance triathlon.
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Summary: For Novices Only
Review: This was a well-written book but it is not for those who are in any way competitive. It was written from the perspective of a back-of-the-packer, actually mostly a dead-last finisher and this is fine, as long as you also have the same ambitions: to finish dead last and not care. For those interested in taking up the sport and have never done any physical activity before this is a great book, it will give you the confidence to start and achieve your goals. One day if you decide that just finishing is no longer good enough then you can buy the Triathlon Training Bible (which you probably should have done in the first place) and continue to improve. I have never run a triathlon and do have limited time to train but I returned this book after I bought it because it simply aimed far to low for me. Not a bad book, but it is for a bare novice at sport, let alone triathlon, at best.
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