Traditionally the focus of triathlon is on volume, intensity, and training periodization—doing particular workouts during the months, weeks, and days leading up to a race. But what if you could improve performance without logging extra distance on the road or in the water? That is the promise of
Triathletes in Motion: Assessing Movement for World-Class Technique and Performance. In this book, Marc Evans introduces the Evans Assessment Principle to make the case that every triathlon training regimen should start with the physical assessments of movement. By looking carefully at movements during these assessments, you can detect limitations to mobility, flexibility, strength, and stability. These limiters cannot be corrected by traditional technique instruction alone, so Evans presents specific exercises and tests that address each one. The results are greater efficiency, fewer injuries, and faster performances.
Whether you are a veteran triathlete seeking a performance breakthrough, a newer triathlete starting the training season, or a coach or member of a triathlon federation searching for that edge, training should start with
Triathletes in Motion. This resource includes hundreds of tests and exercises to help triathletes swim, cycle, and run faster and more economically. Marc Evans was triathlon’s first professional coach and has consulted, coached, collaborated with, and mentored some of the biggest names in the sport, including Dave Scott and Scott Tinley. His coauthor, Dr. Jane Cappaert, is a leading expert in sport biomechanics. Now they make their unique expertise available to everyone in
Triathletes in Motion.
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Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Foundations of Triathlon Performance
Chapter 2. Principles of Triathlon Training
Chapter 3. Assessing Posture
Chapter 4. Assessing Movement
Chapter 5. Assessing and Strengthening the Core
Chapter 6. Analyzing and Improving Swimming Technique
Chapter 7. Analyzing and Improving Cycling Technique
Chapter 8. Analyzing and Improving Running Technique
Index
About the Authors
Marc Evans has been inspiring excellence in endurance athletes
and coaches since debuting as triathlon’s first professional coach in
1981. Triathletes in Motion, his fourth book, is his most
comprehensive work to date and establishes a new standard for coaches
and athletes with the Evans assessment principle by stressing the most
important precept of coaching: individualization.
Marc has developed more than 100 hours of credential-based coursework on
movement and stability and 75 hours on technique. He is a respected
resource for elite coaches and conducts movement assessment workshops
and masters-level education clinics. Marc also has lectured at sport
science conferences around the world.
A two-time head coach for USA Triathlon, Marc led the elite 12-member
team at the first World Championships in 1989 when Mark Allen won the
gold medal for the United States. He was the head coach for the USA
Triathlon performance testing at the Olympic Training Center and a
founding member of USAT Coaching Commission. Additionally, he was the
sports medicine conference coordinator and the director of endurance
sports for the Ironman Sports and Endurance Center.
Marc is also the inventor and co-holder of the patent for the Speedo
Contoured and Speedo Swim Foil training paddles that have set the
standard in swimming design for over a decade. He was presented with the
Award of Excellence from the American Medical Association triathlon
division and was named the International Coach of the Year.
Marc lives in Boulder County, Colorado.
Jane Cappaert, PhD, is a leading expert in the field of
biomechanics. Cappaert began her career at the U.S. Olympic Training
Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She initially analyzed the
biomechanics of athletes competing in a variety of sports. She then
spent nine years studying and improving the technique of swimmers and
triathletes while working at USA Swimming.
From 1997 to 2000, Cappaert designed, developed, tested, and patented
Speedo International's first full-body swimsuit called FastSkin. During
its debut at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, swimmers wearing FastSkin
suits won 83 percent of Olympic medals.
After the 2000 Olympics, Cappaert took a position at Reebok
International, where she led a team of engineers at Reebok's Human
Performance Engineering Lab. While at Reebok, she engineered athletic
shoes to meet the specific functional and biomechanical demands of
running, power motions, cutting motions, and jumping.
“Triathletes in Motion will ensure you’re getting the
most out of your training.”
Scott Molina-- Winner of the 1988 Hawaii Ironman World
Championships and over 100 professional races
“Whether you are new to triathlon, or have been around the sport for
years, Triathletes in Motion provides useful, specific and
measurable information about training, sports nutrition, motivation and
athlete physiology.”
Karlyn Pipes of Aquatic Edge-- Owner of over 200 FINA World
Masters swimming records
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