The Triathlete's Training Bible: The World's Most Comprehensive Training Guide, 4th Ed.

Joe Friel

VeloPress, Nov 15, 2016 - Sports & Recreation - 352 pages

The Triathlete’s Training Bible is the bestselling and most comprehensive guide for aspiring and experienced triathletes.

Joe Friel is the most trusted coach in the world and his proven triathlon training program has helped hundreds of thousands find success in the sport of triathlon.

Joe has completely rewritten this new Fourth Edition of The Triathlete’s Training Bible to incorporate new training principles and help athletes train smarter than ever.

The Triathlete’s Training Bible equips triathletes of all abilities with every detail they must consider when planning a season, lining up a week of workouts, or preparing for race day.

With this new edition, Joe will guide you to develop your own personalized triathlon training program and:

• Become a better swimmer, cyclist, and runner
• Train with the right intensity and volume
• Gain maximum fitness from every workout
• Make up for missed workouts and avoid overtraining
• Adapt your training plan based on your progress and conflicts
• Build muscular endurance with a new approach to strength training
• Improve body composition with smarter nutrition

The Triathlete’s Training Bible is the best-selling book on tri training ever published. Get stronger, smarter, and faster with this newest version of the bible of the sport.

What’s New in the Fourth Edition of The Triathlete’s Training Bible?

Coach Joe Friel started writing the fourth edition of The Triathlete’s Training Bible with a blank page: the entire book is new. The science and sport of triathlon have changed much since the previous edition released. This new edition adds emphasis to personalizing training plans, incorporates new power meter techniques for cycling and running, improves on the skill development techniques, updates the strength training approach, speeds recovery for busy athletes, and cuts through the noisy volume of training data to focus athletes on the numbers that mean the most to better performance. See Joe Friel’s blog or 4655 for an expanded summary of improvements to this fourth edition.

About the author

With a masters degree in exercise science, Joe Friel was a marathoner and running coach throughout the 1970s and early 1980s. After his first triathlon in 1983 and falling in love with the sport he began coaching multisport athletes becoming one of the first triathlon coaches in the country. The following year he opened a triathlon store in Ft. Collins, Colorado—probably the first in the world. Throughout the 1980s his race management company organized several triathlons in Colorado. He left retail and race management in 1987 to focus on coaching. The athletes he coached for over 30 years ranged from novice to high-performance amateur to professional to Olympian. In 1997, he was a founding member of the USA Triathlon Coaches Association. He served as co-chair in 1999-2000. In 2000, he attended the Sydney Olympics to assist with team preparation. The following year he was the coach of team USA for the World Triathlon Championships. Throughout the 2000s he was a frequent speaker at USAT coach seminars. He wrote 17 books on training, the most notable being The Triathlete’s Training Bible, which is now in its 5th edition and translated into 15 languages. It remains the best-selling book in the world on triathlon training. In 1999, he co-founded TrainingPeaks, online training software for endurance athletes. As an athlete he competed in hundreds of events including national and world championships, was an All-American Age Group Triathlete several times and a USAT-regional multisport champion. He stopped competing after a bike crash in 2014 restricted range of shoulder movement. He continues to present at triathlon camps and clinics for triathletes and coaches around the world. Joe currently lives and trains in the mountains of northern Arizona and is working on his 18th book—this one for coaches.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Triathlete's Training Bible: The World's Most Comprehensive Training Guide, 4th Ed.; Training Bible
• Author: Joe Friel
• Publisher: VeloPress, 2016
• ISBN: 1937716848, 9781937716844
• Length: 352 pages
• Subjects: Health & Fitness / Exercise / General; Sports & Recreation / Training; Sports & Recreation / Triathlon