ITT IGNITE
Training Programme
Light your training up
What is the ITT Ignite Programme?
Why is IGNITE different to coaching or an internet plan?
When you sign up to IGNITE, you will complete a detailed onboarding form, which will include details of:-
Your goals
Your training history
Your planned or potential events
Your commitments outside of triathlon training (family and work)
Your time available to train, ~total hours and number of sessions (to support us in putting the plan together more effectively)
Your equipment list and available facilities.
Health and Injury history.
All of these things are then taken into consideration when building your bespoke FOUNDATION, BUILD or RACE PREPARATION phase, which cannot be factored in when downloading a generic plan or as part of a cohort training plan.
IGNITE is a bridge between a generic plan and full coaching- for those unable or as yet unwilling to commit to a full time personal coach, IGNITE is the perfect option.
What you need
Our training plans are devised based on the evidence of experience and in the scientific literature. To maximise this, we need data from devices and your feedback within sessions, this means we ask that athletes on the programme have access to the following:
GPS- whether a watch or a bike computer
Heart Rate Monitor
Bike Power Meter
Overview
IGNITE is a bespoke programme that is planned and tailored around your own unique skill set, goals and time available to train. Programmes last for 12 or 8 weeks, at which point you can purchase the next Phase or purchase a repeat of the same programme, but this will be adapted to your new circumstances and fitness.
Who is IGNITE for?
We know that work, family, and general life can get in the way of a regular and progressive training routine. IGNITE is a more affordable entry into bespoke training plans. It has more specificity than a fixed downloadable plan or cohort coaching programme, and with personal coach contact, which means the programme can be adapted and tailored to the time-starved athlete.
Participants should already be engaged in regular training as the programme will include upwards of 8-12 hours of training a week.
What is included in a programme
Premium Training Peaks account
Training Peaks Virtual
Session feedback from an ITT Coach
1 x 30-min call with the IGNITE coach every 4 weeks (more can be booked in)
An 8 or 12-week programme designed around you and your circumstances
Discount on 1-2-1 coached swim technique sessions
Access to the ITT Community forum
What are the options?
Talk to IGNITE
We offer three programme options based on training periodisation.
Our first phase is the Foundation Programme, which aims to build a base of aerobic fitness with a basis in the Polarised Periodisation model. Essentially, this means training below ~70% heart rate max (<75% FTP), and above 90% heart rate max (>100%FTP), with minimal time in between.
In the Build Programme, we move towards a more Pyramidal model where there is less time in the very high intensity, but more in the middle ground and just below FTP, building aerobic endurance.
In the Race Programme the model is more specific to your race distance. In Ironman, there is more focus on time around Ironman pace/power and durability work. In a Sprint programme, we are still working on durability but its targeted at a higher intensity to reflect the much short duration and higher intensity of the Sprint race.
You do not have to sign up for Foundation before you progress to Build. You may be happy with your endurance training but want more guidance when it comes to more specific preparation.
You can sign up for any of the programmes at any time. We recognise that there are races all year long and you do not want to be constrained by having to fit someone else's timeline.
You may want a longer or repeat phase, we do not simply repeat what you have just done, or done previously, EVERY programme is written to meet your requirements and is written based on your fitness and personal requirements at the time.
Foundation Programme
12 weeks
8-10 hours per week
Building a base of aerobic fitness with a basis in the Polarised Periodisation model.
Perfect for winter, for beginners, restarters, or for return to training after an off-season.
Nutrition advice
Build Programme
12 weeks
8-12 hours per week
Building on your base fitness but focusing on a Pyramidal model, building on aerobic endurance.
Perfect for heading out of winter or base block building, those with a firm base fitness, or as a pathway to a race block.
Nutrition advice
Race Programme
8 weeks
8-12 hours per week
Specific to you and your race distance and goals.
Race and Nutrition Plan