Training for a triathlon is no easy feat.  Balancing three sports and most likely a job and family as well takes organization, discipline and quite a bit of planning.  How do you squeeze everything in and still improve your race times?  The answer is strategic training.  Done correctly, fewer quality miles and minutes can be more productive than high volume as well as help to ward off injury.

These 7 tips can help you create a flexible and productive training program, so you don’t have to neglect your work and family in the name of Ironman.

When you do carve out a block of time for your long run of the week, how far should you go?  It may be shorter than you think, read more on how to determine your long training run for any triathlon distance.

Although training in three sports is inherently cross-training, USA Triathlon recently suggested that adding yoga to your workout plan can increase your form, efficiency and power to make you an overall better triathlete.  Give it a try in the off-season and see if you recognize improvements that make yoga worthy of adding to your routine year-round.