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		<title>Brick Workouts</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saw these workouts over at USA Triathlon a while ago; they&#8217;re really good if you need to add some intensity to your workouts. My favorite is actually not included below because it is a mash up of two different brick workouts, the &#8216;hill-climb&#8217; and the &#8216;aqua run&#8217;.  I like to do the bike portion of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p id="top" />Saw these workouts over at <a href="http://www.usatriathlon.org" target="_blank">USA Triathlon</a> a while ago; they&#8217;re really good if you need to add some intensity to your workouts. My favorite is actually not included below because it is a mash up of two different brick workouts, the &#8216;hill-climb&#8217; and the &#8216;aqua run&#8217;.  I like to do the bike portion of the &#8216;hill-climb&#8217; and jump in the pool and do the swim part of the &#8216;aqua run&#8217;.  I try my hardest to run as little as possible.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">and a little extra motivation:</p>
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<p>1. <strong>Little Ring/Big Ring Brick</strong> &#8212; This is a bike-run brick.</p>
<p>Warm Up: Begin on the bike trainer by warming up with 15 to 20 minutes, starting with easy spinning, and building to a comfortable, steady effort.<br />
Bike Set: Choose a gearing using your small chain ring that increases your heart rate to about 85-90% LTHR and puts your cadence at 90-95rpm. Additionally, choose a gearing using your large chain ring that keeps your heart rate the same, however your cadence will change to 75-80 rpm. Do 3x(5 minutes Little Ring/5 minutes Big Ring) on 2 minutes of recovery spinning in between the 10 minute intervals.<br />
Run Set: Run on a treadmill for 20 minutes at a easy pace (~80-85% of LTHR). Keep your cadence quick and your form proud.</p>
<p>2. <strong>Duathlon Brick</strong> &#8212; This is a run-bike-run brick.</p>
<p>Warm-up: Begin with some very easy jogging for about 10 minutes. Just enough to get you moving.<br />
Run Set: 1 mile easy (only slightly faster than your warm up), 1 mile steady (~85-90% of LTHR).<br />
Bike Set: Because you are already warmed up, once on your bike, get right to business: 3x(8 minutes at 85-90% of LTHR/2 minutes of recovery spinning). Keep your cycling cadence high at all times, about 90-95rpm.<br />
Run Set: Run 1 mile, steady (hr @ 90% of LTHR); 1 mile easy, as a long cool down.</p>
<p>3. <strong>Hill Climb Brick</strong> &#8212; This is a bike-run brick</p>
<p>Warm Up: Begin on the bike trainer by warming up with 15 to 20 minutes, starting with easy spinning, and building to a comfortable, steady effort.<br />
Before moving on to the bike set of this workout, set up your bike so that the front wheel is elevated, as if you&#8217;re biking uphill. I use a big thick phone book, but anything that will raise your front wheel higher than normal and is stable will do.<br />
Bike Set: Divide the bike into three parts: 1. seated, pedaling with a cadence at about 80rpm for 10 minutes. 2. 5x(1 minute standing @ 70rpm and 1 minute seated @ 80rpm). 3. all seated, pedaling with a cadence at about 80rpm for 10 minutes.<br />
Run Set: Run on a treadmill for 20 minutes at an easy pace (~80-85% of LTHR). Keep your cadence quick and your form proud.<br />
*For an added challenge, put the treadmill at an incline greater than 2% for the first 10 minutes of the run. Remember, keep your heart rate in check (&lt;90% of LTHR)</p>
<p>4. <strong>Aqua Run</strong> &#8212; This is a swim-run brick.</p>
<p>The trick is getting on a treadmill as fast as possible. This will definitely take some time in transition, so be sure to be organized ahead of time. Of course, it&#8217;s always an attention getter to see a dude in a Speedo running on a treadmill&#8230; For the swim set, you can use any swim workout or master&#8217;s session that you prefer, followed by a run. For example, here is a swim workout I like:<br />
Swim Set: Warm up &#8211; 200 freestyle swim, 100 kick with kickboard, 200 freestyle swim with pool buoy. Main set &#8211; 8&#215;100 on 10 seconds rest, 2&#215;400 on 20 seconds rest.<br />
Run Set: 3x(1 mile, start easy and build to your LTHR). Finish with some easy jogging and walking.</p>
<p>5. <strong>The InsaneMan Brick</strong> &#8212; This is a bike-run brick with extra insanity during the run.</p>
<p>Warm Up: Begin on the bike trainer by warming up with 15 to 20 minutes, starting with easy spinning, and building to a comfortable, steady effort.<br />
Bike Set: 1&#215;10 minutes of steady effort (85-90% LTHR) @ a cadence of 90-95rpm, 1&#215;10 minutes of steady effort (85-90% LTHR) @ a cadence of 70-75rpm, 1&#215;5 minutes of recovery effort, 1&#215;10 minutes as: Four minutes at 90 rpm, Three minutes at 100 rpm, Two minutes at 110 rpm, One minute at 120+ rpm.<br />
Run Set: Run 1 mile easy (get your legs under you), jump off of the treadmill and do 5-15 push-ups, run 1 mile easy (the trick now is to recover your heart rate while still running), jump off of the treadmill again and do 5-15 pull-ups, run 1 mile easy (again, heart rate control!)</p>
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