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Home > The Time-Crunched Triathlete: Race-Winning Fitness in 8 Hours a Week (The Time-Crunched Athlete)
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The Time-Crunched Triathlete: Race-Winning Fitness in 8 Hours a Week (The Time-Crunched Athlete)
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By Chris Carmichael and Jim Rutberg
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 (8 Reviews)
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Velo Press
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December 31, 1969 |
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Paperback
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256
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The Time-Crunched Triathlete presents a fast-paced triathlon training program that delivers competitive speed without the time demands of conventional approaches. In as few as 8 hours a week, triathletes can develop the speed and endurance they need to be competitive in triathlon, from sprint to half-iron distance races.
Drawing upon principles refined while coaching busy endurance athletes, Chris Carmichael shows triathletes how to build fitness in three sports on a realistic schedule that fits into their busy professional and personal lives.
Complete with training plans, case studies, nutritional guidelines, and success stories, The Time-Crunched Triathlete is the book active working professionals and parents have been waiting for.
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 Time Crunched Triathlete, November 12, 2010
By cyclic17
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I've just started competing triathlons, with decent results for a guy my age with young child and a full-time job. I'm not trying to be a pro or anything, just trying to have some fun, stay in shape, and compete every once in a while. I've read a few of Chris Carmichael's other books, and like those, The Time-Crunched Triathlete is clear and concise. It moves along quickly and if you want to skip around it's organized well so you can find the information you want quickly. Since the book just came out (I actually ordered my copy from Chris's website because they got their shipment before Amazon and my local bookstore), it's too early for me to say if the training programs themselves work, but as a book on triathlon training it's a great read and really informative. I liked the fact that Chris kept returning to pragmatic solutions and advice where other books go on and on about theory or assume we can all put training as the top priority in our lives. Chris gets it. He understands athletes like me. I'm motivated, I'm ready to the do the work, but my family and my job come first. And this is the first triathlon book I've read that really addresses the challenges that I - and all my triathlete friends - deal with every day.
55 of 57 people found this review helpful
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 Good, but has embarrassing flaws, March 29, 2011
By Pablo
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Good, useful, smart, etc. All the things you would expect from Lance's coach.
Except that the training plans themselves are sprinkled with mathematical mistakes that make following them confusing. Total minutes spent per discipline on a weekly basis don't always add up to the minutes assigned for all days of the week when added up (also, per discipline). So which do you follow? You attempt to reach the weekly total? You follow the daily volume and ignore the weekly total? You end up trying to guess what they meant to prescribe... But you really can't guess. This is supposed to be science. The book is all about being as scientific and specific as possible.
The errors are not small, they are significant.
It's a shame. And I tried contacting the publisher to get a solution (corrected training plans) and they have not replied yet.
8 of 9 people found this review helpful
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Great book, April 26, 2011
By Sergei (Boston, MA)
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Good book overall. I haven't used any of the plans (didn't even read through them, really), but the main points of the book served to confirm my belief that 6-8 hrs a week could be sufficient for olympic and half-irons, IF you focus on getting the best quality work-out out of this time and cut all the junk yards, miles, long group rides/runs at conversational pace, etc. So far I can't complain about the results.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
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Great resource for triathlon training, January 28, 2011
By Ladybug (Nampa, Idaho)
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I have done a mini-triathlon, but wanted to move on to a Sprint distance event. I found this book to be very useful in everything from understanding how to train to when to rest and be realistic. The suggested workouts, in my opinion, lean too much on the biking and not enough on running or swimming, but the proposed schedule and "brick" approach helped me formulate my own in ways that I hadn't thought of prior to reading it.
2 of 3 people found this review helpful
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Revolutionary!, March 20, 2011
By Anaestasia
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The author is well qualified in the area of training for triathlons and the book is not just another training for triathlon book. This is a revolutionary approach to reducing the hours to train while improving outcomes. Throughly reccommended. Have a life and enjoy triathlons, a new concept!
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
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Really Helpful book, a lot of useful information, April 23, 2012
By fire26
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Really Helpful book, a lot of useful information, in fact I am currently in week 4 of the training schedule for the intermediate olympic , and never felt so confident about the training..
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
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No Complaints So Far!, November 14, 2011
By OSU (Columbus)
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I've read this book through several times, and am just starting on the Olympic training program. It's very good and very in-depth, without overloading you with a lot of unnecessary details. I'm a big believer in internal training above lactate threshhold, and I like the idea that you can become a competitive age-group triathlete training 6-8 hours a week. This is the perfect book for me. I've also looked at Joel Friel's "Triathlete's Training Bible" and -- while that book no doubt goes into greater depth -- it felt too much like a textbook to me. I think the Time Crunched Triathlete is much more accessible.
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 Weak, February 19, 2012
By Triyogi (Spokane, WA USA)
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This book makes a lot of claims, the biggest being that you can "win" with just 8 hours of training a week. You can't. You can "finish", but you won't win. The plans are mediocre at best and are only 8 weeks long. What are you suppose to do after 8 weeks, start over? No thanks, save your money.
0 of 1 people found this review helpful
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