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If you are going to participate in a triathlon, having the best equipment is vital. Experience and endurance are important, but those will only go so far towards being at the top of your game. It will vastly depend on the athlete the sort of equipment needed, since every human body is different. There are basics that will apply to everyone who chooses to swim, own a bike or become a runner. These will help in choosing the right equipment that one needs to be at the top of your game.

Swimming Gear –

When it comes to swim gear, it all comes down to foot wear and other accessories. In the training stages, there are footwear that is designed to help you train by promoting proper leg posture and tempo while kicking and swimming. These training shoes will help you develop the proper technique to swim like the pros. Goggles and Swim Caps are also important, as goggles will help to maintain vision and swim caps will reduce the drag while swimming. When it comes time to compete, then the proper footwear will be shoes that allow breathing, and provide traction. For a triathlon, it is also important to have shoes that provide arch support for running and will be compatible with bike pedals.

Running Gear –

Once again, it is all about the foot gear and accessories. While training, a very helpful accessory is a pedometer or other means to track your progress. A map may be able to give you an estimate, but you can run over much more ground than can be shown on a map. An easily portable water container that will not throw you off balance is also a plus. When it comes time to choosing shoes, what is important is proper foot protection and support. The shoes have to support the arch of your foot; otherwise you’ll fatigue much faster, and risk hurting your foot. All runners have a specific style that makes them unique, and finding the shoes that fit your running style is vital if you want to do your best on the track. Proper elemental protection is also good, in case of deep puddles, snow rain, or other debris. When in a triathlon, it is very beneficial to have shoes that will also double as swim shoes.

Bicycles –

Choosing the right bicycle is an important task and depends heavily on the intended application. The first consideration is the terrain; will you off road, or will you stick to paved surfaces? That is the question that will determine if you will get a mountain bike or a road bike. A mountain bike has a wide tire with deep treads, to ensure traction over a variety of terrain types. Built in suspension will reduce rider fatigue, and also ensure good contact with the ground. Conversely, a road tire is thin to reduce friction (and make it less likely to puncture a tire on road debris).There are treads on the tires as well, but they are more shallow, being only designed for riding in wet conditions. Then there are bicycles that are in between, designed primarily for road use, but capable of holding it’s own off the road.

Bicycle Gear –

This includes not only the ever important helmet, but also the appropriate accessories for bicycle maintenance. This includes grease and lubricant for the various parts of the bike, replacement parts for spokes and chains, and the tools necessary to tear down the bike and put it back together. Your bicycle is a precision machine that needs to be well maintained; otherwise it will not run as efficiently or as safely. There are a myriad of different options available to you when it comes to bicycles, including bicycles intended for scaling hills and rough terrain, and those that are meant for the road. Having the right bicycle is important, because each features characteristics that are meant to appeal to its primary applications. A road bike will not stand up against the rugged terrain that a mountain bike is meant to handle, for example. And a mountain bike’s numerous speeds and settings will be useless on the road. Choosing the right bicycle and the right bicycling accessories is vital if you want to get the most out of your ride.

Swimming, biking and running are the three activities that, when combined, form a triathlon. Having the best equipment if you intend to participate in these events is absolutely vital, because it will boost your capabilities and increase your ability to do well. Endurance and experience are both vital statistics, but they will really only go so far when it comes to reaching the top of your game. Because every body is different, finding the equipment and gear that will best suit your needs is going to depend heavily upon testing and trying out different brands, sizes and styles until you find what suits your needs best. A runner cannot win races without shoes that accommodate his or her running style. A bicyclist cannot climb mountains or ride to the head of the pack in a race without the right bicycle to accommodate him or her. And without the right goggles, swimsuit and swim cap, a swimmer cannot efficiently glide across the water to win races.

SwimBikeRunner.com is designed to cater to the athlete who is serious about the gear that he or she utilizes in order to win. If you are serious about improving your swim times, riding faster and further than before or running more efficiently than ever, then the products that you find within these pages will benefit you tremendously. Regardless of whether you are looking for the best swimming apparel, the right running shoes or the best bicycle or bicycling gear to help improve your sport of choice, or all three for that matter, you will only find top of the line name brand solutions here at SwimBikeRunner.com.

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Originally posted 2008-09-15 13:15:48. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Preventing Injuries when Running

Running is actually the sport of the three that is most capable of causing injury. Running injuries are unfortunately quite rampant, and most runners have certainly received a fair share of running injuries. Here are some tips to improve your technique and your gear so that you can prevent injuries while you are running:

1 – Make sure that you are changing your shoes often, and never cut costs in the area of your running shoes. When you are in doubt about the condition of your running shoes, recycle them or throw them out, just do not plan on going running in them again. Unless you are running 10 miles a week on average, six months is far too long for you to keep a pair of shoes. You should always err on the side of safety, replacing your shoes rather than trying to get bonus miles out of them.

2 – Keep two pairs or more in rotation, especially if you are running on consecutive days. Keep running shoes that are intended specifically for running and never wear them for any other purpose or you will zap their cushioning prematurely, shortening their lifespan.

3 – Determine the type of runner that you are, and use this information for the right purposes. You might be a neutral runner, a pronator, a supinator, or a mix of different types. Make sure that you are buying running shoes that specifically match up with the type of runner that you are. You can get help from a podiatrist or a good sports medicine clinic as they will be able to provide you with information on what running shoes will be specifically well suited to meet your unique biomechanical needs.

4 – Add over-the-counter cushion inserts in order to add more arch support and more cushioning to your running shoes so that they are more comfortable and easier for you to run in.

5 – Run on trails whenever it is possible, and your legs will certainly thank you for the much softer and more comfortable surface. It will help your dexterity to have to dodge rocks, roots and twigs along the way as well.

6 – On days where you are feeling achy, skip the track or the trails in favor of either a rest for a few days or a run in the pool instead.

7 – Make sure that you are always warming up and regularly stretching to keep your body adequately warmed up and your muscles properly limber and flexible. It is crucial that you ease into any effort when running or during the other triathlon sport events as well. This tip is not only helpful for running in a triathlon then, but also cycling and swimming in a triathlon as well.

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Originally posted 2009-09-25 03:10:37. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Throughout our existence, one of the deciding factors in who survives and who doesn’t has been technology. It is the innovation of technology that has allowed us to push ourselves to new horizons along the way. In all aspects of our life, having the right gear and equipment is absolutely essential in guaranteeing our success in many ways. If we want to meet goals, meet deadlines, get up on time, go to bed on time, achieve the requirements of our jobs and stay healthy and happy in lives, we need to make use of the newest and best gadgets and technology. In triathlon training, this is also true, because we can attain victory when we utilize the right triathlon gear. This is so true that it can be said that having the right gear will literally be what makes or breaks your ability to do well in a triathlon competition because it will improve your ability to train and your ability to succeed during the actual competition as well.

In 1912, the world’s fastest man was a gentleman named Don Lippincott, who ran the 100 meter dash in a total of 10.6 seconds. Now that nearly one hundred years have passed, the same distance can be run in 9.69 seconds by Usain Bolt, and he hardly broke a sweat as he tore through the previous world record. So what is the difference between these two men? They are obviously both hardworking, hard training men, so what made them unique from one another? In all honesty, the only thing that separates these two men from one another is the progresses in technology.

The same technologies capable of separating and shaping entire nations and their histories is also more than capable of determining which athletes have a competitive edge in championships and tournaments and competitions such as the Ironman or even the Tour De France. Modern runners are benefiting from fine-tuned running shoes that provide the optimum level of stiffness for optimizing their unique mechanical energy produced by the ankle, creating a faster print and more spring in the step for example.

Cyclists on the other hand are benefiting from finely tuned road bikes that are durable and yet extremely light as a result of construction from cutting edge metal alloys that allow for them to ride faster and faster still, breaking more and more records for speed as they go along. The merging between science and sports has birthed an insane amount of new products that create incredible athletic performance. For those who are not incorporating brand new technologies into their competition, this could potentially mean the distinction between making history and becoming history.

Triathlon athletes that really want to be competitive need to go out and buy equipment that is triathlon specific such as a bike specifically for triathlons, which offer altered geometric configurations in comparison to typical or traditional road bikes.

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Originally posted 2009-08-25 03:32:35. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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