Training Plans for Multisport Athletes by Gale Bernhardt

Training Plans for Multisport Athletes by Gale Bernhardt

Gale Bernhardt's training plans have helped tens of thousands of self-coached athletes reach their multisport goals.

Every detail of how to train for a triathlon of any distance, an off-road triathlon, or a duathlon is packed into this essential book, including plenty of swim, bike, and run workouts to keep training fresh and breakthrough workouts to make training more rewarding.

Bernhardt's unparalleled coaching experience is the basis of her proven training methodology, which she applies to each of the 15 unique training plans, removing the hassle of creating a plan from scratch.

The second edition includes:

• Easy tips on modifications that allow triathletes to further personalize the plans according to their needs.
• A new chapter on 13 Weeks to a Sub-13 Hour Ironman (R)
• 8 training plans requiring only 5 oe10 hours of training each week.
• 5 training plans to go farther--3 training plans for finishing an Ironman and 2 plans for finishing a half-Ironman race.

Training Plans for Multisport Athletes has a challenge to suit everyone, from beginners to accomplished triathletes, for those who are short on training time and those who are training for a faster time.

Gale Bernhardt is one of just a few USA Triathlon World Cup coaches with experience coaching athletes in two Olympic Games. As the 2004 USA Triathlon Olympic Coach for both the men's and women's triathlon teams, she flew to Athens, Greece. This accolade came on top of being named the 2003 Pan American Games Coach for both the men's and women's teams by USA Triathlon. Since 1974, Gale has instructed or coached athletes. Her first Olympic experience was as a personal cycling coach in the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. She holds a bachelor's degree from Colorado State University and is a USA Cycling Level I and USA Triathlon Level III Coach.

In both organizations, these are the highest levels imaginable. From 2000 to the present, she has been a member of the USA Triathlon National Coaching Committee, where she has served in a leadership role for five years. She has written for a variety of endurance sports periodicals and has been a long-time contributor to Active.com.