Carsten Hahn is founder and main shareholder of Hahn-Training Systems

Sporting career

Carsten Hahn began his athletic career in his fourth year with swimming, followed a year later by athletics. Early on he specialized in the "longer" and "harder" distances, e.g. the 200m dolphin, 400m and 1500m freestyle in swimming, 1000-3000m middle distances in running. Carsten Hahn was a multiple participant in South Westphalia and West German championships in swimming and became multiple South Westphalian and West German champion. As a student, he was a member of the junior development squad. After finishing his activity as a swimmer, he swam his 1500m best time of 17min 24sec in 2000, when he was preparing for the Ironman Lanzarote, as part of the special subject swimming during his sports studies. In athletics Carsten Hahn still holds several club records (as of 2005). In 1987 Carsten Hahn competed in his first triathlon and in 1992 he took part in one of the first German championships for youth athletes. He remained faithful to the triathlon sport until today. In addition, he rode bicycle races for training purposes, usually leaving some of the specialists in the C class behind him.

Education

In 1997, Carsten Hahn began his studies in sports science at the Ruhr University in Bochum. He completed his intermediate diploma in biomechanics/mobility with a grade of 1.0. Parallel to his studies, Carsten acquired the swimming coach C and B licenses. He completed his practical special subjects in swimming and rowing. In the course of his studies, Carsten Hahn pursued a targeted development towards his later profession, completing several of his own papers and two of his own studies. These included:

Final thesis special subject swimming with a survey among top athletes on open water swimming. Title of the thesis: Open water swimming in triathlon. Training, technique, tactics - material.

Final thesis special subject rowing. Comparative requirement analysis of the sports rowing and triathlon with regard to the compensation sport rowing triathlon.

Project work in the training science project. Independent performance of an own, five-month investigation. Topic: Effects of strength training on running performance of senior triathletes after a competition-like cycling preload.

Empirical diploma thesis in the department of exercise science. Topic: Strength training in triathlon. Importance and training routines of top athletes. He passed his final exams in exercise science and sports history with a grade of 1.3 each.

In 2005 Carsten Hahn had the offer to do a doctorate as a further qualification, which he has not done so far in the interest of the company and the customers, so that he can dedicate himself 100% to the further development of Hahn-Training-Systems.



As a trainer, Carsten Hahn worked for a triathlon club from 1997-2005, where he was responsible for coordinating the entire training operation for adults. In this context, Carsten Hahn introduced and implemented the concept of individual training planning. Later, the concept was expanded to include lactate diagnostics within the club. In 2004, all of the athletes in his care, who had prepared for a marathon or an Ironman, achieved new personal best times.

Carsten Hahn himself was also successful as an athlete, whereby the most important successes were realized through training programs he put together himself. Especially in the years 2003 and 2004 he acquired extensive knowledge in the field of analysis and interpretation of training data, when he started to train with a power meter and to use this data successfully.


Below are some excerpts of the successes from the triathlon sport:

West German Championships Youth & Juniors, places 1-3

German Team Champion Triathlon

Qualified several times for German Championships in Triathlon

1997 third place Junior ETU Cup race Schliersee (best German)

2000 first Ironman on Lanzarote. Third best swim time incl. pros (and a nice short appearance on Eurosport) and < 1min past the Hawaii qualification

from 2000-2004 always top five (AK20/25) at every finished Ironman

2004 third place long distance world championship (amateur class)

2004 second place Half Ironman UK (amateur class) and qualification Ironman World Championships Hawaii

Thomas enriches the team almost from the beginning, with his experience as a semi-professional cyclist, he is not only experienced in sports, but has always been familiar with the latest material. Through constant training and handling of the latest technology, he now manages the entire sales and workshop area.
Even difficult problems are reliably solved by him, especially nowadays where you have technology from 10 years ago as well as the most modern and different designs from each manufacturer, it is important to deal with all technologies.

Already in March 2016 he mounted a Sram Etap, here with us in a German store mind you, this shows how quickly he has the nose in the wind since this group was not yet delivered in Germany at the time.

Also for the entire areas of the Bike-Fit he shows himself responsible, together with Carsten the two trained themselves after the information of the inventors of the Wedges and educated themselves so always further, today the measurement with millimeter-exact adjustment during the pedaling work and torque analysis is not to be excluded.
Here, of course, the strength from daily assemblies in the course of this position optimally on the wheel to implement.

Products from the store area, such as running shoes, nutrition, etc., are regularly tested by him to be able to advise athletes optimally.