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 makes 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, Jane Cappaert, is a leading expert in sport biomechanics. Now they make their unique expertise available to everyone in Triathletes in Motion.
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 a paradigm shift for triathletes, coaches, and triathlon federations.
Evans works as an endurance sport educator for triathlon federations worldwide. He also is a respected resource for elite coaches and gives movement assessment workshops and masters-level clinics for swimming, cycling, and running technique. Evans has lectured at sport science conferences and conducted clinics for triathlon federations in such locations as Mexico, Canada, Russia, Netherlands, France, Switzerland, and Denmark.
A two-time head coach for USA Triathlon, Evans led the elite 12-member team at the first World Championships in 1989 when Mark Allen won the gold medal. Evans was the head coach for USA Triathlon performance testing at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs and a founding member of the USAT coaching commission. Additionally, he was the sports medicine conference coordinator and director of endurance sports for the Ironman Sports and Endurance Center.
Evans is also the inventor of and co-holder of the patent for the Speedo contoured and swim foil training paddles that have set the standard in swimming design. He received the Award of Excellence and was named International Coach of the Year by the American Medical Association triathlon division.
Evans Lives in Longmont, 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
Triathletes in Motion
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