Brick Training to Build Triathlon Endurance

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Carey Kepler and I'm a functional training coach I'm also a triathlete coach I train beginner to intermediate triatlete's you can go to my website to get more information for me at www.boundless-energy.com. I want to talk about something that's going to be important for your training and that is brick training so when your preparing for your race you need to make sure that you've done a couple, and depending how if this is your first race it might be your 10th race how many you want to do. A brick training consist of doing at least 2 of the discipline so you can go from a swim to a bike in a training period where you actually transition out of the water and go ahead and try quickly jump onto the bike you can continue your training. So what it feels like to go from the swim portion to the bike portion also you can go from bike to run so you want to jump on your bike, you want to go ride for 12 to 25 miles and go as quickly as possible. After that if you get some water you want to put on running shoes and you want to transition straight into a run you need to prepare your legs for what it feels like going for 25 miles a bike and then going for a 3 mile run. So make sure depending on the distance of your race what's more apprpriate for you what the distances should be for your brick training. Usually you train one of the disciplines longer than the other so you can go for 25 mile bike and a 3 mile run or a 2 mile run. Or you can just go for a 12 mile bike and then you can run for 30 or 45 minutes depending on what your focus is and your goal is for that particular workout. But make sure that you do know and your body knows what it feels like to transition from discipline to another. And while your doing that it's a perfect time to try out different nutrition because your are going to want to take in additional calories while your training. So it's going to be very important for you to try out and see what your body responds to in terms of food and what dehydrate drinks you need to be trying so make sure that you try out goo packets that have that energy gel anything that's going to make you have the extra energy to go that extra distance."