Training load and intensity in triathlon: objective differences between sex, age, race distance preference and training phase across a cohort of 95 age-group triathletes over six months
Leighton A. Wells, Samantha M. Hoffmann, Lyndell Bruce, Peter Kremer, Dan B. Dwyer · 2026
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Age-group triathletes train hard, but hard data on how much have been scarce. Leighton Wells and co-authors mined in 2026 six months of records from ninety-five such athletes in twenty-five countries, spanning nearly thirty-five thousand sessions.
Long-course athletes trained most: about six hundred fifteen minutes and one hundred seventy kilometers a week, against roughly five hundred minutes for short-course racers. Workload swung by training phase, peaking in the specific build phase and bottoming in the off-season. Neither age nor sex predicted load, and average heart rate intensity linked to none of the factors. The authors offer the cohort numbers as a benchmark for coaches.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Leighton A. Wells, Samantha M. Hoffmann, Lyndell Bruce, Peter Kremer, Dan B. Dwyer |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 34 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |