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Recommended Bike, Run, and Strength Equipment
3rd Party Training Apps: Zwift or TrainerRoad for your bike workouts (these services operate via a monthly subscription fee). Bike and run workouts are built with internal education and coaching cues directly from Matt Dixon. With a one-time connection, you can sync your workouts directly with Zwift.
Smart Trainer: Wahoo Kickr, CycleOps, or similar brands that sync with third party training apps. As an FYI: For future considerations, we will be utilizing Wahoo in our SF based center.
Tracking Device: Garmin, Suunto, Polar, or other smartwatches to monitor metrics.
Comfortable Shoes: Lighter is not better, and shoes that minimize your muscular fatigue and damage and are most comfortable are best. Just because a Kenyan runs close to 2 hours in a marathon wearing a certain shoe type, doesn’t make it the correct shoe choice for you.
Road Bike: This is less a need and more a nice addition. The road bike is a wonderful tool to improve bike interactions and skills, all of which are less intuitive on a time-trial bike.
Bands such as Rogue Monster Bands: These bands enable you to perform many strength routines.
Recommended Swim Equipment
Swimming is the place where we utilize the most additional tools. These come in handy and are integrated into a lot of your Purple Patch swim sessions.
Swim Buoy: Eney Buoy
Snorkel: The Aquasphere
Tech Paddles: Tech Paddles
Power Paddles: Strokemaker Hand Paddles
Ankle-Strap/Band: Ankle Strap on Amazon
Fins: ROKA Sports Classic Silicone Short Fins or TYR Crossblade Training Fin
Tempo Trainer: FINIS Tempo Trainer Pro
Stretch Cordz: StrechCordz with Paddles
For more information on swim workouts and the use of the recommended equipment, check out our Swim Glossary.