I just wonder how much training can be done and done well in a week. Our sport is always a compromise with too much to do, and not enough training time and energy to get it done. Extra work must have a purpose and some real return for the time and energy investment. A multifaceted puzzle, where the targets keep changing and the level keeps improving. If I was to say that strength training was the most difficult aspect I find in coaching elite triathlon, the younger, more scientifically trained coaches might think I have gone mad. There is plenty of research, and anecdotal evidence to say that strength training works, and works well; stronger is better, few can doubt it. An international conference was just held in Finland regarding the interaction of concurrent endurance and strength training. The answers are there. The coaches who have been around a fair while might well be like me and a little confused by the topic. One athlete needs holistic strength gains, but others might need simple injury prevention strategies to reduce the implications of a slipped disc, or another needs one small section of their body to react better when landing on the ground for a split second. The more elite the athlete, the longer training history, the more a case study approach is warranted, very specific to their needs, and more importantly, finding how it fits into the plan without too much imbalance. In this presentation, I will talk about the journey I have taken over almost 20 years since I first used pilates and core stability work in our program, how we went through the lifting and gym phase, had a very successful phase where only body weight exercises were used, and then into some case studies that might help explain my current rationale on the topic. Vortrag des Referenten auf der Science + Triathlon 2015 World Conference vom 26.-27. November 2015 am INSEP in Paris.
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