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No Training Plans, December 26, 2005
This review is from: The Complete Guide to Duathlon Training (Paperback)
The author seemingly wrote this book more to impress the reader than to provide him/her with any useful, applicable information. The book is filled with jargon, acronyms, and abbreviations yet fails to provide any real information that you couldn't find for free from any triathlete site on the Internet. For example, when he discusses heartrate training, he has his own names for each heartrate zone, as opposed to the standard terminology, and he has a whole set of different names for the zones for cycling. What everyone in the triathlon world calls "bricks," he calls "coupled training." The entire book reads like an economics textbook. Furthermore, and this was the biggest disappointment of all, there are NO training plans in the book. If you're looking for training plans, do NOT purchase this book. Save your money, and go to active.com or ontri.com or beginnertriathlete.com; you can learn more information on those sites for free than you can from reading this book.
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