Sprint /  SWIM 0.5mi (750m) BIKE 12.4mi (20km) RUN 3.1mi (5km)  PHASE IV draws on 35 years of experience helping athletes of all ages and abilities achieve injury free peak performance. If you want to achieve your highest genetic potential as a triathlete, and have hit road blocks in your training, the solution begins with PHASE IV. Our Comprehensive Performance Training is the most complete periodized science based training program available anywhere. This program uses scientific analysis to unlock the intricacies or your personal physiology and replaces the guess work that characterizes most generic coaching programs. We will first analyze your current fitness, strength and weaknesses including flexibility, joint stability, alignment and sport mechanics, nutrition and recovery strategies. From this data your team of exercise physiologists and physical therapists will construct and guide you through a comprehensive periodized program tailored to your personal physiology and genetic make up.

Full SWIM 2.4mi (3.8km) – BIKE 112mi (180km) – RUN 26.2mi (42.195km) At PHASE IV we use Periodization science to develop triathletes into Ironman Champions.  Periodization was first developed by the Eastern Bloc countries during the Cold War when they sought to dominate the sporting world through science, research, and physical domination. The Eastern Europeans put their collective resources into manufacturing the world’s best athletes. They performed extensive research to discover the most effective training regimes, and were able to control variables in ways the West could not match.      Periodization training is effective because it exploits the body’s great potential for adaptation. Based on Seyles’ Fundamental Laws of Human Adaptation, Periodization training breaks the training program into cycles (or periods) where fitness is developed in a scientifically rational sequence. Training is stress on the body that stimulates an increased production of natural hormones to shore up the body, and meet the demands of Ironman training. However, the body is such a great tool of adaptation that after about six-to-eight-weeks of the same activity, the body becomes stronger and can handle the load without experiencing stress. The hormone back-up fades, and so will performance, if the training volume and intensity, stimulus, is not altered to create new stress on the body and continuous hormone production.       At PHASE IV, we strictly follow the basic tenants of Periodization realizing all exercise training is futile if rest and recovery periods are not provided. Hard work is always followed by time for recovery. Recovery is when your physiology evolves and where the benefits of your hard work is realized. No one ever became stronger during a workout, it is in the recovery period when we become fitter.     The PHASE IV Peakright© approach solves the training puzzle of balancing hard work and smart recovery, allowing fitness adaptations and a “hardened” body metabolically fit and able to sustain the volume and intensity necessary to compete in and finish an Ironman competition.