BACKGROUND
As many of you may know, I have used P90X, P90X2, and more recently P90X3 in conjunction with triathlon and run training for quite a few years. My integrated training plans have been popular with endurance athletes for the last 4 or 5 years since I created them.
The plans work amazingly well as the integration of P90X brings strength that most endurance athletes either skip or reluctantly do in the gym and consider very boring. However, one thing that I still have found that endurance athletes skip is stretching. Therefore, many athletes still lack the flexibility needed for speed and injury prevention. It’s understandable right? Add strength training, swimming, biking, running, and then stretching to a busy life and something has to give. Triathletes certainly aren’t going to give up their swimming, biking, or running…ok, well maybe swimming for some…so often either stretching or strength training get pushed aside.
ENTER PIYO…
I was invited to try out PiYo before it’s official launch and was somewhat reluctant to try it because the commitment was to a test group and would mean that I could not do my triathlon training at all. I decided to give it a go and what I found was a program that could provide flexibility AND functional strength in all the right areas for triathletes and runners WITHOUT two additional time commitments. Imagine getting more flexible WHILE you are getting stronger. How awesome would that be for a busy triathlete? Well, that is exactly what happened to me.
In addition, PiYo was extremely low impact which meant that I was not only getting stronger and more flexible but I wasn’t beating myself up more like I already do a bit when running. I was in love!!!!
Watch this video for all my thoughts on how PiYo can help endurance athletes and then scroll down to get the integrated training plan for free!!!!!
VIDEO
Training Plans
Running and PiYo
PiYo 5K Plan
PiYo 10K Plan
PiYo Half Marathon Plan
PiYo Marathon Plan
Triathlon and PiYo
PiYo Sprint Triathlon Plan
PiYo Olympic Triathlon Plan
PiYo Half Iron Triathlon Plan
PiYo Full Iron Triathlon Plan
How to Order the Plans
Go HERE
21 Comments
Gerard Cogger
July 7, 2014Hi I’m wanting to do an Olympic triathlon later this year I hope these plans can help me.
King regards
Gerard
BASEtraining
July 7, 2014Hi Gerard! Great. Did you fill out the form?
Sara Halada
July 8, 2014Hi!! I am very interested in this program. I am currently running up to 6.5 miles with plans to complete my first half at the end of September. I do indoor spinning 1-2 days per week as well:)
Thank you!
BASEtraining
July 8, 2014Cool, Sara. Did you fill out the form to get the plans?
Leslie Garrett
July 8, 2014Looking forward to seeing the 5k and 10k plans!
BASEtraining
July 8, 2014make sure you fill out the form so I can send the plans to you!!!
Lawrence Miller
July 9, 2014Very interested in incorporating this.
dannie
August 28, 2014I am training for my 8th marathon and thought I’d add piyo to give me that extra stretch and strength that I feel like I was missing the last few years. I was a weekly yoga taker prior. I am on week 6 of piyo and have experience pretty intense lower back pain the last two weeks. The last time I had pain like this was in college when I played soccer for 20 hours a week. Am I doing something wrong with piyo? Any thoughts?
BASEtraining
August 28, 2014Hi Dannie,
I tried to email you at that address to talk about this more but the address came back undeliverable. Can you email me at ryan@tribasetraining.com so I can find out more about what exact schedule you are following?
Ryan
Christine king
December 17, 2014Hi there! I just watched your video about incorporating PiYo into triathlon trainings. I am a coach with Beachbody and I will be starting my first 70.3 training in January.
I purchased a training plan using “THE METHOD” from ironguides.net. And was wondering if you can give me some tips on how to incorpoate PiYo into my training. Any tips or suggestions would be very much appreciated!
Cheers,
Christine
BASEtraining
January 16, 2015Hey Christine, sorry I missed this comment somehow. Have you requested my PiYo half marathon plan?
Danell Hensley
January 14, 2015Hello! Wow, your review of Piyo was is AWESOME!! I stumpled upon this looking while looking for a PiYo/ half marathon schedule. This video was very helpful! I am a runner myself as well as a (new) BEACHBODY coach. I am looking to run my next Challenge as a PiYo running Challenge, but not sure how to come up with a plan. Any information that you would be willing to share I would greatly appreciate!
Thank you,
Danell Hensley
BASEtraining
January 16, 2015Danell, feel free to request one of my plans and use the ideas to create your own plan for your challenge! Good luck! I hope it goes well for you. Email me at ryan@tribasetraining.com if you need to.
Candace Moody
March 17, 2015PiYo + 10 KM run schedule please!
BASEtraining
March 17, 2015Candace, did you fill out the form?
Laura Thornthwaite
July 14, 2015Would love access to your PiYo and run plans.
BASEtraining
February 28, 2016Getting them all on pdf and getting a new system set up. Stay tuned!
melissa bechtel
February 28, 20161/2 marathon
BASEtraining
February 28, 2016Getting a new system for distributing these soon! Stay tuned.
G-4rce
May 30, 2017Recently downloaded your PiYo 10k Plan and it was exactly what I have been looking for. I love PiYo and I love to run but just couldn’t find the right pairing of the two (which PiYo day to forfeit to running) that would provided the most benefit, so thank you for putting this together, this is great!
[…] As I mentioned, I deal with all of these issues by doing PiYo. I don’t do the DVD program because I teach it live. I get 2 hours of PiYo in on Thursdays by teaching classes (that’s probably excessive for one day) and I practice the routines for class on my own 1 or 2 other times during the week. So, I do a total of about 3 hours of PiYo per week. With my integrated training programs that I have for PiYo, the average using the DVD programs is about 2.5 hours of PiYo mixed into the running. You can request access to the plans HERE. […]