The Triathlete's Training Bible

The World's Most Comprehensive Training Guide, 4th Ed.

By: Joe Friel

Narrated by: Brian Arens

Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins

Publisher's summary

The Triathlete’s Training Bible is the best-selling and most comprehensive guide for aspiring and experienced triathletes. Joe Friel is the most trusted coach in the world, and his proven triathlon training program has helped hundreds of thousands find success in the sport of triathlon.

Joe has completely rewritten this new fourth edition of The Triathlete's Training Bible to incorporate new training principles and help athletes train smarter than ever.

The Triathlete’s Training Bible equips triathletes of all abilities with every detail they must consider when planning a season, lining up a week of workouts, or preparing for race day.

With this audio edition, Joe will guide you to develop your own personalized triathlon training program and:

• Become a better swimmer, cyclist, and runner
• Train with the right intensity and volume
• Gain maximum fitness from every workout
• Make up for missed workouts and avoid overtraining
• Adapt your training plan based on your progress and conflicts
• Build muscular endurance with a new approach to strength training
• Improve body composition with smarter nutrition

The Triathlete’s Training Bible is the best-selling book on tri-training ever published. Get stronger, smarter, and faster with this newest audio version of the bible of the sport.

The Triathlete's Training Bible is narrated by Brian Arens, an Audible listener favorite. All figures, workouts, and training plans described in this audiobook are included in the supplementary PDF.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2016 Joe Friel (P)2019 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC

A complete understanding, not a plan.

If you’re looking for an easy to follow triathlon training plan, this is not it.

If you want to understand the reasons behind building a plan, and understand how much work actually goes into being a coach, than this book is for you. It’s a lot of information, but if read actively with an effort placed towards understanding and retaining what you have read, you’ll learn how to develop an effective training plan for yourself and maybe even others.

Most importantly, you’ll understand WHY you’re doing something vs something else, which in my opinion is far more important for the serious athlete.

Highly recommend.

Narration was awful.

This book probably had a huge potential for an audio book... but man did it fall short. Narration was so monotone it was like listening to nails on a chalk board throughout the entirety.. read it, might be a better fit..

Not a training “Bible”

Book introduction mentions being for advanced athletes, it’s not. It’s more an introduction to the sport that broadly explains notions as aerobic and anaerobic systems and gives training session examples. While there’s some interesting parts for those who start, the book can’t claim being a bible since there’s way more info out there and some chapters forget some info that would be quite useful to triathlete. I encourage to read other books to complement (especially for the running section).

Author recommendation is 3yrs a Triathlete

It was useful, but it is way over my head for the majority of the book.
In the beginning it was recommended to that this be useful for an advanced-level triathlete (Friel says thats a 3 year veteran). I am just now considering triathlons and only look to "wet my feet" with the subject. So It is probably a valuable tool, but probably more-so for someone else.

Unfortunately, I have to return it. BUT I will probably be back!