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Triathletes - make this your best
season yet. This plan lets you create a customized and precise
training schedule - and loads it onto your training calendar.
Mike Pigg and his coach, Phil Maffetone,
created this training plan to help triathletes experience
the joy of reaching their potential. The Mike Pigg Triathlon
Training Plan is a heart-rate based plan will set up workouts
for you based on your current fitness level, your goals,
and your training preferences.
Once your schedule is created,
the workouts are placed on the PC Coach logbook calendar
(PC Coach is included in this bundle pack). This allows
you to easily keep track of your upcoming workouts, log
your data after your workouts, and create detailed graphs
of your training. If you use a Polar
S-series downloadable heart monitor, you can even log
your data directly from the HRM.
The plan creates a customized training
schedule specifically tailored to your goals, your needs
and your level. Read how triathlete
Mark Montague achieved Ironman success with the PC Coach
Triathlon Plan.
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Mike Pigg Triathlon Bundle Pack (includes
PC Coach Elite) - $69.95
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The Plan
The Triathlon Plan embraces the philosophy
that your body needs to build a solid aerobic base, then later
adds anaerobic workouts as your progress dictates. This plan prepares
you for a successful triathlon season by creating a training schedule
with the perfect variety of run, bike and swim workouts. If you
have read books or articles by Dr. Phil Maffetone, you will be
familiar with this coaching philosophy.
Mike's plan is based on:
- aerobic heart-rate (as derived from the 180-formula)
- number of hours you wish to train per week
- type of race (Sprint, Olympic, Half-Iron,
or Ironman)
- percentage of training time spent in each
sport
- your current fitness level
- for duathletes, this plan also allows you to focus on two
events
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Startup Interview
First, the program leads you through
an interview to assess your current fitness and training goals
for the year.
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Scheduling
Workouts
Then, the software program sets up your schedule
3 weeks at a time, individually monitoring your progress and adjusting
your training through special evaluation workouts. |
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Evaluation
Throughout the season, the plan will evaluate
your training and analyze how your body is responding to training.
Special workouts, called MAF tests (for Maximum Aerobic Function)
enable the program to see your improvement and make the necessary
recommendation to keep you on the right road toward achieving
your triathlon goals.
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Update Interviews
This program follows your progress and changes
your training phases according to how you are performing. Completely
customized to you.
Every three weeks you will have the opportunity
to change your original start up options.
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| The Authors |
| Mike Pigg |
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Mike Pigg is one of triathlon's most
notable personalities, a gifted yet hard-working athlete
and a proven champion. From 1987 to 1995 he won an astonishing
77 of 132 races, with an incredible 30 wins in the U.S.
Triathlon Series. This might very well be the greatest
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history of the sport. The only titles that eluded
him are the major ultra-distance championships --
Ironman, Nice, and PowerMan although he has finished
second in each of these races.
Mike began swimming at the age of 10 and from there
moved on to cross country running in High School.
He didn't start biking until college, and that was
merely for transportation on the 34 mile round-trip
to school. Arcata, California, Mike's hometown, is
known for rain, hills, and headwinds, all of which
have contributed to making Mike the strong athlete
and fierce competitor he is. He lives near Arcata
with his wife Marci and their two children.
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| Dr. Philip Maffetone |
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Dr. Philip Maffetone
has had the honor of being recognized as Coach of the
Year by Triathlete magazine. He was recently honored
by Inside Triathlon as one of the 20 most influential
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sports. For over 20 years Dr. Maffetone has practiced
sports medecine and applied kinesiology, working with
world class athletes, including Mike Pigg, Mark Allen,
and Wendy Ingraham.
Author of Training for Endurance and In
Fitness and In Health, Dr. Maffetone is currently
CEO of the MAF Group, creators of the all-natural
Phil's Bar and Phil's Protein Shakes.
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Workout
types
Long runs, track workouts, endurance
cycling, swim intervals, and many more - over 30 different workouts
for triathlon are included. The plan creates a workout schedule
for you, then checks your progress every three weeks with the "MAF
Test" assessment workout. Based on how your body is responding to
training, the program will create three more weeks of workouts,
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Intended
Audience
Any multisport
athlete that wants to train based
on heart rate, and wants better performance and better health. This
plan can also be used to train for duathlon competition. The
Pigg plan has helped triathletes of all abilities improve their
times without overtraining!
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