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Ironman Athletes Train Like This To Get The Insane Strength & Stamina
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Look at yourself on the treadmill. Now look at the 10 kilometres you’ve proudly knocked over. Now multiply that by four, throw in a 4 kilometre swim and polish it off with a 180km bike ride. Now you can call yourself an ironman athlete.
The term ironman tends to be underrated in the sporting world and even more so against the titular superhero known as Iron Man (FYI: no relevance).
There’s no doubting though that ironman athletes are some of the fittest people on Earth even though they might not look like it against your typical gym junkie. Think of their competition as a combination of water sports, endurance racing and strength training in a military drill type discipline. Their physique as a result is more athletically lean than bulky.
Matt Poole is one of these champion ironman athletes who once ran 2 kilometres with a broken fibular to make the finish line. And today we’re getting him to teach cruisy civilians like you and I how to get the strength and stamina of an ironman.
Ready. Set. Go.
Establish Your Goal Before You Train
People always say “you train so much, Matty,” but my goal is to be fit by summer when our races are on. I know when I need to be fit by and which races I need to do. That’s me as a pro athlete.
For the average worker, if you’re just turning up to the gym to train with no light at the end of the tunnel, that’s the definition of crazy to me.
');document.write('');elsedocument.write('');I couldn’t do that. I couldn’t turn up to train if I didn’t have anything to race for. So I love telling people and encouraging them to find something they love to do. Whether it’s running the City to Surf, a cross fit comp, an ocean swim…whatever it is, just do it. You don’t even have to break records.
If the event is sixteen weeks away, break down your training so that you know why you’re turning up to the gym, the pool or the running track everyday before then.
Our winter training program is boring as shit. It’s just weeks on weeks of training but the reason why we do it is because it’s a building block – think of it as money in the bank every week so when summer comes you can spend that investment.
There’s a goal at the end of it and that makes training more manageable and that’s exactly what we do as ironmen.
Train Like An Ironman
The ironman competition is iconic in Australia. There are the three water disciplines:
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Our training week is big and it consists of lots of volume and kilometres to cover. This is so we can stay on point for every discipline.
Notes on gym sessions: These aren’t your usual run of the mill gym sessions consisting of bench presses an bicep curls. Poole runs a custom program which helps him build core strength whilst preventing injury and honing his swim technique.
In the gym it’s specific movements to my sport. I’m working with a strength and conditioning coach. There’s no benefit to bench pressing as my muscles and body is already so exhausted from the training workload. To hop on a bench press will set me back and can potentially cause an injury.
Because you’re in such an unorthodox position on the board or ski, it’s important to make sure you have good mobility alongside strength and flexibility through those major muscles.
Source: https://www.dmarge.com/2018/11/iron-man-workout.html
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