In The Well-Built Triathlete, elite triathlon coach Matt Dixon reveals the approach he has used to turn age-group triathletes into elite professionals. Instead of focusing narrowly on training and workouts, Dixon reveals a more comprehensive approach that considers the whole athlete. Dixon details the four pillars of performance that form the foundation of his highly successful purplepatch fitness program, showing triathletes of all abilities how they can become well-built triathletes and perform better year after year. The Well-Built Triathlete gives equal weight to training and workouts, recovery and rest, daily nutrition, and functional strength. Dixon considers the demands of career and family and the ways different personality types prefer to approach training. The Well-Built Triathlete helps triathletes apply Dixon's approach to their season and training plan. Chapters on swimming, cycling, and running explain the most effective ways to train for each. A purplepatch section shows how triathletes can peak their fitness for long streaks of high performance. Dixon's holistic, whole-body approach to triathlon will help triathletes become greater than the sum of their workouts. By becoming better all-around athletes, well-built triathletes will train and race faster than ever.

Matt Dixon

Foreword by Meredith Kessler
Preface

1 Building a Foundation for Athletic Performance: Pillars of Performance Self-Assessment
Part I: Pillars of Performance
2 Stress & Endurance Training / Training Zones
3 Recovery / Self-Massage Protocol for Recovery
4 Nutrition / A Commonsense Guide to Nutrition
5 Functional Strength / Functional Strength Self-Assessment
Part II: Endurance Training
6 Swimming in Triathlon
7 Cycling in Triathlon
8 Running in Triathlon
Part III: Turning Potential into Performance
9 Mapping Your Path to Performance
10 Setting Up Your Plan for Training / Sample Training Blocks
11 Racing
Epilogue
Appendix A: Answers to Four Pillars Self-Assessment
Appendix B: Functional Strength Exercises
Appendix C: Training Templates
Acknowledgements
Index
About the Contributors
About the Author