Author, coach, and nutritionist Matt Fitzgerald wrote the book "The Endurance Diet" after doing extensive investigations into what elite endurance athletes all over the world really eat. He discovered that even though their plates look very different, there are 5 core habit that they all adhere to to perform at the top of their game in performance, recovery, and overall health.
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-The 5 Core Habits: eat everything, eat quality, eat carb-centered, eat enough, eat individually
-Does elite athletes' eating habits really apply to normal age-group triathletes?
-More advanced concepts beyond the 5 core habits: nutrition periodisation, fuelling workouts, fasted workouts/training low, supplements
-Matt's thoughts on "trendy diets"
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Research has shown that cyclists, runners, triathletes, and other endurance athletes improve the most when they consistently do 80 percent of their training at low intensity and the other 20 percent at a moderate to high intensity. Matt Fitzgerald, co-author of the new book "80/20 Triathlon" explains what 80/20 training is all about and answer commonly asked questions.
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-What Matt would put on a t-shirt if he had to distill 80/20 Triathlon down to a very short and concise slogan
-The proper planning and the proper execution of 80/20 training
-Is there "wiggle room" in the 80/20 percentages?
-Should you apply 80/20 within each discipline or simply across all your training?
-The most common mistake age-groupers make: not executing the easy training easy enough
-How is easy, moderate, and high intensity percentages calculated?
-The difference between 80/20 training and polarised training
-What to do with the 20% of moderate to high intensity
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Sprint interval training consists of 4-7 all out efforts of typically 30 seconds, followed by 4 minutes recovery. Jerome Koral has researched this kind of training, and the results of his studies indicate that it may be one of the most under utilised types of training around, that more triathletes should tap into.
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Petri Karvinen is an age-group triathlete from Finland. In this episode we discuss his build-up to Challenge Roth in 2018, where he was limited to 10 hours of training per week but still managed a very strong 10:30 finishing time.
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Petri Karvinen is an age-group triathlete from Finland. In this episode we discuss his build-up to Challenge Roth in 2018, where he was limited to 10 hours of training per week but still managed a very strong 10:30 finishing time.
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Coach David Tilbury-Davis shares the process of creating a triathlon race plan. Going through the race planning process and doing your homework can be the difference between having a real shocker or your best triathlon ever.
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