80/20 Triathlon: Discover the Breakthrough Elite-Training Formula for Ultimate Fitness and Performance at All Levels

As someone who studied exercise signs in school, I’m usually pretty skeptic about books on anything health and fitness. however, Fitzgerald outdid himself here with this book applying well-known scientific principles to triathlon and is making it easy for the reader of any level to understand his thinking and apply the learned material.

Thank you Matt Fitzgerald for a very easy to comprehend approach to making huge gains with the 80/20 approach. Like many, I would do training runs for years in the threshold zones and hit brick walls on performance improvements. I have been following his Level 1 Half Ironman training workout and have been making huge gains. For example, my LTP 5 months ago was 7:17 minutes per mile. After performing the same 30 minute running test on the same course and in the same conditions, my LTP is 6:45 minutes per mile. Another factor is that I am following the diet guidance from his Racing Weight book. No need for a personal coach if you follow the training plans from both of these books! In fact, I believe his expertise is far superior to 95% of the coaches out there. Be sure you create a journal to log your workouts also as this will help you understand small refinements you may need to make. Matt Fitzgerald is the man!

I recently ordered both 80/20 running and 80/20 triathlon together. I completed my first full distance triathlon using the Be Iron Fit book/plan and it went very well. Always tweaking, I wanted to see what this book had to offer in planning for my 2019 season. I really love the concept of training easy the majority of the time (hence 80%) and then including very specific intensity for a specific purpose. The book includes the science behind the idea, which I appreciate, but also the practicalities of how you figure out your training zones in each discipline (swim/bike/run). There is also good strength training advice in here. I am definitely planning to use one of these plans for my upcoming half race in May and I am excited to see the results!

This book has just the right amount of information to be helpful without being over-whelming. It's a good reference to keep coming back to for specific advice and information about any of the triathlon distances (sprint through iron man) and gives each of them equal page count. So many books seem geared only to ironman distances and leave those beginner triathletes looking for short course advice behind, but this book has training plans and advice for all distances, novice through experienced triathlete. My only complaint is that it can be hard to understand the training plans because of the abbreviations and the need to keep flipping to the back of the book, however this layout is likely the only way to get all the training plan info into the book without it being twice as thick! Good book. I would recommend beginner triathletes add it to their library.

This book doesn't waste your time with fluff. It gets right into it. Explains why this works and how to implement for your personal use. I'd give it 10 stars if i could. The resources it gives you access to are worth the price of the book by 100x's. Amazing what these authors teach and actually help you achieve. Best deal on Amazon for triathletes (or runners or swimmers or cyclists). Get a copy before they raise the price!

loved this book! Used it to train for a 70.3 triathlon and totally crushed my goal! I loved reading the science behind it :). only downside was having to check the back of the book for every workout. took a while as I transferred all the workouts to a calendar but other than that it is awesome!

This book is very direct, and no-nonsense. I like that it is very direct about the training plans, whereas Joe Friel's Training Bible makes you need to spend hours building your own training plans. This is the book if you have a normal job (40-50 hours/week) and don't have the time to build your own training plans. It's all here, ready to go. And I loved the texture of the paper.

There are gaps. It doesn't tell you what to do if you can't workout 6 days a week or if you miss a workout. It doesn't exactly tell you how to increase volume, though I've had other athletes tell me 10% per week. This book doesn't really tell you that. I also wish it wasn't so hard to figure out my workout. So, each workout is coded and you have to flip back and forth in the book to decode it. I hate that. I've spent hours putting the maintenance plan into an excel spreadsheet for future ease. I am only in the maintenance phase right now, so I haven't put this book to the test with a race yet. I absolutely love that they have given us the professional way to get faster and be competitive. I devoured this book when it came in the mail. Good stuff.