![]() If you have a modest background, it’ll take you less time to prepare for a triathlon. What is your athletic background? If you’ve got no background in sports, it’ll take longer for you to prepare. What distance race are you training for? A sprint triathlon will take the least amount of time, followed by an Olympic triathlon, then a half-Ironman, and finally, an Ironman will take the longest to prepare for.The answer to this question depends on three questions: This is the point at which you need to dial your weekly training hours back because you’re not really progressing much at this point if anything, you’d probably benefit from less training and more recovery. In your case, it’s best to gradually try to increase weekly training hours over several months or years until you find that you’re not making much progress, or you’re feeling stressed and/or beat down from training. ![]() An excellent rule of thumb comes from the phrase, "More is more until it’s not." So when it comes to triathlon training, more weekly hours will likely lead to better performance, but only to the point of diminishing returns. Like everything though, the amount of training hours that’s best for you is unique to you. In my experience, most triathletes can perform quite well on an average training week of 8-11 hours and still maintain a balance with real life. They’ve also spent years, or sometimes even decades building up their tolerance for high training loads. Pro triathletes can train more because they recover more than us - age group triathletes with jobs and busy family lives. She once said in a podcast that she only trains for an average of 11 hours per week to win Ironman and half Ironman races. ![]() We all see pro Ironman triathletes like Ben Hoffman, Jan Frodeno, and Sam Long putting in 35-hour training weeks, but what you don’t hear a lot about, because it’s not as shocking, are the pro triathletes like Katrina Matthews. How many weekly hours you’ll need to train for your triathlon is much less than you think.
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