Team Geared Up

CHICAGO, USA (Team Geared Up) - For this week, some links for tri-athletes, runners and multi-sports practitioners who may benefit from cross-training, both from a performance and an injury-free racing point of view.

Keep the hard days hard and easy the easy days : interesting post about how alternating hard and easy training days works better than trying to go hard all the time, as then you feel tired and get into mediocre training.

Cross-training : an article about the benefits of cross training as a way to improve performance and reduce burn-out.

Cross-training for runners: want to maximize your training time while minimize injury-related problems? Take a look at this article . It talks about how aerobic-based cross-training, such as elliptical machines and cycling, will improve your aerobic conditioning, and so improve your running condition while sparing you the pounding from running.

Championship Triathlon Training : George Dallam, PhD, USA Triathlon’s first national team coach is the author of a new triathlon book that has just been recently published. On Championship Triathlon Training Dallam gives coaching insights to all those tri athletes who want to get the training right.

And completing this week’s post, a bonus for the adventure racers: the 2007 Gobi March which will kick off this year’s edition on June 5th. Check it out here

-Ed-
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Image credit - Clear Lake Triathlon 01 , by Daily Mik