Strength Training For Triathletes: Top 4 Tips To Supplement Your Training
Whether you’re completing your 10th full-distance ironman or first super sprint distance pool triathlon, it is important to establish a safe, effective, and healthy training regime. Balancing swim workouts, cycling sessions, and running training can tax anyone’s routine and lifestyle. Often, triathletes will opt to skip or avoid strength training to allow for more endurance training. However, it is important to supplement your program with strengthening and stability work to prevent injuries, illness, and pain. Below, is a list of the top four ways to utilize your strength training to maximize your results.
5 Exercises to Improve Shoulder Health
Shoulders are the most mobile joint in the human body, offering a wide range of potential movements and positions they can get into during our daily life. The shoulder’s mobility relies on muscles, ligaments, and tendons as a source of stability rather than bone like the hip joint. Due to their nature, the shoulder is also commonly injured, with 18-26% of the population having some shoulder issues at any given moment. To combat this phenomenon, I will provide exercises aimed at improving overall shoulder health and longevity, with some nice side effects of improved posture and increased muscle tone. A good routine to follow with the following exercises is to perform 3 sets of 15-20 repetitions to supplement your current training routine.
Move Your Workouts Indoors with Resistance Bands
In this current environment of the pandemic, some of us are still wary of going to a gym to continue with our fitness routine. Home workouts can grow stale fairly quickly, and we can be unsure of how to proceed. After all, there are only so many ways we can use our bodyweight and products at home to come up with exercises. Several blog posts have been created to get you started with at-home fitness, and this blog will look to expand upon those entries.
