80/20 Triathlon: Discover the Breakthrough Elite-Training Formula for Ultimate Fitness and Performance at All Levels Kindle Edition

Thank you Matt Fitzgerald for a very easy to comprehend approach to making huge gains with the 80/20 approach. Like many, I would do training runs for years in the threshold zones and hit brick walls on performance improvements. I have been following his Level 1 Half Ironman training workout and have been making huge gains. For example, my LTP 5 months ago was 7:17 minutes per mile. After performing the same 30 minute running test on the same course and in the same conditions, my LTP is 6:45 minutes per mile. Another factor is that I am following the diet guidance from his Racing Weight book. No need for a personal coach if you follow the training plans from both of these books! In fact, I believe his expertise is far superior to 95% of the coaches out there. Be sure you create a journal to log your workouts also as this will help you understand small refinements you may need to make. Matt Fitzgerald is the man!

Don’t be afraid of this book. It’s a lot of information and can be confusing but it’s more than ok to jump around and not read chronologically. My recommended approach is read the intro that explains the concept of 80/20. Then read the section on swimming. Flip forward to the ideal plan you want to use based on your race. Then look at some of the swim workouts recommended (they are in a section AFTER the training plans and not available in the index which is confusing). Rinse and repeat for cycling and running sections. While you do this, questions will naturally come up in your head that you can find the answers to by browsing other sections of this book. The value of this book is that if you devote some time to understanding it, you will never have to purchase another 80/20 training plan, no matter what race you’re doing.

If you want a plan to follow for your first half distance triathlon 70.3 this book will get you to the finish line feeling great!I wrote out the weekly work outs on big index cards so I could plan my week.There’s lots of great info for general strength for a triathlete.The Explanations of zones for each discipline and effort help understand the why of the plans.I used level 3 half iron plan and it had about 8 hours a week all the way up to 13-14 hours in the peak weeks.There are other levels for more time crunched people.Highly recommend this book.

The crucial principles of an 80/20 trading regimen is well spelled out in detail. Unfortunately, the shortfall is how the book seems dated with regard to how technology has made much of the recording of effort levels to be more easily determined than the book implies. Another miscalculation of the book is the omission of strength training as a integral part of training during race season and not just during the off season. This "training schedule" miscalculation is why the book gets 4 stars instead of 5. And, worse yet...likely to increase the chance of injury for triathletes. In spite of that, the book is an excellent source for DIY coaching. ...just don’t make it the only source. Best to find sources that also emphasize recovery and strength in the training process/schedule.

No other book that I read on triathlon training has taught me as much on how to design your own training plan.

This book has just the right amount of information to be helpful without being over-whelming. It's a good reference to keep coming back to for specific advice and information about any of the triathlon distances (sprint through iron man) and gives each of them equal page count. So many books seem geared only to ironman distances and leave those beginner triathletes looking for short course advice behind, but this book has training plans and advice for all distances, novice through experienced triathlete. My only complaint is that it can be hard to understand the training plans because of the abbreviations and the need to keep flipping to the back of the book, however this layout is likely the only way to get all the training plan info into the book without it being twice as thick! Good book. I would recommend beginner triathletes add it to their library.

Matt Fitzgerald has provided a quality resource for low intensity training with support for why it works. This book is not a ton of filler and gets right too the point on why this training method is better not only for age groupers but pros as well. The concept of going slow to get fast may seem crazy but it works and the best part is the lack of injuries associated with training.The book provides a ton of training plan detail for all distances of Triathlon at 4 different levels. All laid to help you plan your season. My one knock and why I gave it 4 stars is I'm not a fan of having to reference workouts from the plan to the workout section. I understand why this is a necessary evil given the space and uniformity but it takes away the ability to easily "copy and past" the plan.

I recently ordered both 80/20 running and 80/20 triathlon together. I completed my first full distance triathlon using the Be Iron Fit book/plan and it went very well. Always tweaking, I wanted to see what this book had to offer in planning for my 2019 season. I really love the concept of training easy the majority of the time (hence 80%) and then including very specific intensity for a specific purpose. The book includes the science behind the idea, which I appreciate, but also the practicalities of how you figure out your training zones in each discipline (swim/bike/run). There is also good strength training advice in here. I am definitely planning to use one of these plans for my upcoming half race in May and I am excited to see the results!

Over the past year I have followed Matt and Dave's 80/20 Marathon and Ironman plans with great results. Prior to the 8020 system, using a more traditional plan I was in and out of physio and getting taped to the hilt just to try and get around, with constant pain in my knees.It says something when my own physio couldn't believe the volume of training I had been doing and how little work I required once I started following this plan. He now recommends the 80/20 system to his clients.I am 100% sold on the system, and have followed 2 full plans, leading to PBs in both Marathon and Triathlon distances for me.The new book is great as it explains how to properly plan out my own 80/20 plan, with multiple events throughout the year. The strength and conditioning section is a good new feature, and something I am excited to add into my training too.Going slow to get fast sounds counter-intuitive, but it really does work ! This transformed my training, enjoyment of the sports, and significantly reduced recurring injuries from old plans that I followed - I cant recommend it highly enough

If you know the principles behind 80/20 this book is pretty much useless.First half of the book are simply extolling the virtues of 80/20 as you could find on the internet. A better format for it would be a series of blog posts.The second half of the book is some half decent training plans. However these training plans are ruined by the fact they are cryptically referenced to a set of work outs at the back. So you can't look at a plan and understand the make up of it you have to constantly flip back and forwards to the appendix. I assume this is to make photocopying it and sharing it harder, instead it makes a crap resource for the reader. I found myself attempting to write up the plans but after doing it for 4 weeks I got so annoyed and stopped.It got 2 stars as the training plans and workouts are solid but the book just seems to be a cash grab.

This is a very useful book for the triathlete at any stage of their career. Who would have thought that you can go faster by training slower? The book firstly takes you through the evidence behind the 80/20 system and then discusses the science behind it. It goes through each sport telling you how to work out your intensity levels and it then teaches you how to create your own training plan based on these levels. If you don't want to do that it has pre-prepared training plans and workouts for the different triathlon distances and for different levels of athlete. As a new triathlete now working towards half iron distance next year there appears to be plenty of understandable material in this excellent book, and I am sure it will be invaluable for my training.

Given it espouses a training philosophy I strongly believe in, I'd hoped to enjoy this more.The writing is very much 'we told you so' with what I think's insufficient reference to the scientific principles and research that drove Seiler's 80/20 philosophy through observation of elite athletes.

The book explains all about the 8020 method of training made famous from Stephen Seiler. Most of the book however is made up of exercises and different examples of sessions to do. Useful if you have no clue about training but not so much if you already have a training programme.