The siesta time by Felipe Gutiérrez: In this sport ...

In this article, our collaborator Felipe Gutiérrez talks about the businesses that surround triathlon

 

 

In this sport called triathlon and its different modalities, we often complain about the organizers, their prices, the little they give us in return and blah. bla bla bla…

 

But and around the triathlon and the triathlete there are no other "businesses"?

Yes, there are a few and every time there are many more, some of them I can not even remember them.

Surely some will tell me everything but I want to start with the business of on-line training. It is not cold to receive an email, if you have paid before in the account, with the training of a week or even a month where they tell you what you should train.

Well, you do not know anything or almost nothing, try to follow those trainings. Personally I think it is a "good business", but I do not like it. Also you will not find face to face in most cases to the coach because if you want to see him and have a live session the thing goes up in price. Not all of them are like that, I suppose, but they tell me everything! ... But as long as one pays and the other does his job, nothing else I have to say. Maybe one day I will go deep into this topic, and I think I feel like doing it.

The coaches courses, the on-line courses of prestigious academies and federations, on all kinds of issues: strength, long distance, school ... and a few sweet prices ranging from the 100 to 500 and peak euros pufff sound to another business that what matters most are the number of registered that the quality of the teaching to impart.

Forming I am sure that they form but talks of any subject in many cases without sense for the students there is also. Some filling talks sometimes make the course a "sweet potato" but expensive, quite expensive. It's what you want to know more about.

Every day emails reach all types of sales with phrases like these "We have seen that you are a triathlon coach (come on, they do not know me at all) and we want to see the possibility of offering you such and such a product that you could introduce to your athletes and make a profit and such and such and such ... "

I pass, but I know of some technicians that it seems that if they use it to give "a benefit" to their trained, I suppose to improve their performance, I think. They sell you from products to drink, to compensate for your diet, all kinds of bars, gels and everything ... If you sell so much, your benefits are so much! Incredible, they don't know me and want me to be their seller.

Remembering these things who can this cold afternoon Wednesday in Madrid sleep the only weekly nap I can hit.

A lot of business, is what has the number of triathlon practitioners increase, some seem "the scam of the stamp", but no doubt sneaks.

We can not overlook all the triathlon stores that travel the network and they offer you everything from a bicycle, passing shoes, and sale of equipment for the club filling a questionnaire that seems never fails, I believe that there are no salespeople who visit you and they give you the can until they get your club change of competition overalls. I continue going to the usual store and I still recommend it before the big stores that ..., I do not say more.

Before it was difficult to see and that the triathletes did it convinced but the magic word of bikefitting and the places where they do it multiply. Are they expensive? Well, there is everything and complaints too. Prices depending on the site can have up to a difference of more than € 100 and the normal between € 150 to € 250, which I know at least. But for tastes and vices, each one has its own.

El study of cyclist biomechanics to achieve greater efficiency and determine its parameters ... well that every day there are more experts and more triathletes that pass through their hands. Results ?, Because each one will know how to value it, but cool ... at least that's what they say.

And let's not say the offer that begins to be not only in sports in general but in triathlon in particular and are the electrostimulator vests

Those who use them are thinking "in the shortcut" that they get or that they say so that in 20 minutes their effects multiply and that only with a couple of weekly sessions. There are in some centers "waiting list", good business therefore, although it already has its defenders and some detractors.

Many, many more businesses around the triathlon and not only are the organizers who "line up", I know few who do, perhaps it is that the rich working do not give with them and that I already know a few.

I could list a few more and some of them around medical services, physiotherapists, masseurs who do miracles ...

A good marketing, a good sentence will probably be enough to participate in a test that goes from being a simple triathlon to being a test "with phrase and franchise" and increase in everything up to its price and I'm not talking about any in particular.

It is clear that in this sport and business proliferate, and I still can not get my eye and also my head passes the question in question "could not I set up a business within this world?".

Well, after so much time in him the final conclusion was ... "go duérmete that today you are a little tired of so much up early" pussy with my conscience, then it will be that.

Felipe Gutiérrez