Conrad Goeringer and Rob Sleamaker are the authors of the newly released book "Triathlon Freestyle Simplified". In this episode we discuss how triathletes can get the most out of their swim training, even on a typically limited time budget.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-The differences between swimming demands and swim training for triathletes compared to pool swimmers
-Maximising efficiency and improving your swim technique
-Improving swim fitness, and why you cannot neglect hard, fitness-boosting training
-Training for the demands of open water swimming
-Workout structure, weekly training structure, and periodisation through the season
-Performance testing and setting target intensities in workouts
-Tools and equipment for training in the water and on dryland
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Bike Fitting Q&A with Phil Burt | EP#254
Phil Burt is a world renowned bike fitter and physiotherapist who has spent 12 years with British Cycling and 5 years with Team Sky. Phil is back for his second interview on That Triathlon Show to answer listener questions around bike fitting.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Crank length - are shorter cranks beneficial?
-Finding the right balance of comfort, power, and aerodynamics
-Saddle considerations
-The process of do-it-yourself bike fitting
-How to find a really good bike fitter
-Cleat position
-Oval chainrings
-Bike fitting considerations for road bikes, TT bikes and mountainbikes
-Prevention and remedies for various aches and pains in cycling
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Devices, apps, and technology for triathletes with Michael Liberzon, Andrew Buckrell and Mikael Eriksson | EP#253
Michael Liberzon and Andrew Buckrell from the Endurance Innovation Podcast interview Mikael Eriksson on devices, apps, tools and technology that help (and those that hinder) triathletes and endurance athletes in training and racing.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-GPS-watches, bike computers, heart rate monitors, and power meters
-Advanced metrics (e.g. left/right balance, ground contact time, torque effectiveness...)
-Training planning and logging systems (Training Peaks, Today's Plan, Excel, pen and paper...)
-Heart Rate Variability, sleep tracking, and recovery monitoring
-Performance testing (lactate, VO2max, INSCYD...)
-Aerodynamic sensors for cycling
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Glycogen metabolism and optimising glycogen resynthesis with Bob Murray, PhD | EP#252
Bob Murray, PhD, did his doctorate in exercise physiology at the Ohio State University and then became a university professor. He later left academia to work in applied sports science, including 23 years as director of the world famous Gatorade Sports Science Institute, and is now an independent consultant helping businesses in the sports and fitness industry understand and leverage state of the art sports science. Recently, Dr. Murray published a review article on glycogen metabolism and resynthesis in the Nutrition Reviews journal, which is the topic of today's interview.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-When and how is glycogen (the stored form of carbohydrate in the body) used at rest and during exercise (glycogen metabolism 101)
-What is the relation between glycogen and performance?
-What is the relation between glycogen and training adaptations?
-How much glycogen do we store, and how quickly do these stores get depleted during training and racing?
-When and why is fast and complete glycogen resynthesis important for athletes?
-How can we influence glycogen resynthesis rates through diet, types and amount of carbohydrate replenishment, protein co-ingestion, nutrient timing etc.?
-For what level of athletes is fast glycogen resynthesis important?
-The positive and negative effects and consequences of deliberately or unknowingly delaying glycogen resynthesis
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Training talk with cycling coach James Spragg | EP#251
James Spragg is a former professional cyclist who now uses his applied and scientific knowledge in his cycling coaching practice. James has coached cyclists from national to Olympic level to over 20 National, European and World Championship medals.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-James coaching philosophy
-Training structure, from macro (periodisation) to micro
-When and why to select specific types of training for a given athlete
-Profiling an athlete and figuring out their limiters and needs based on the event demands
-Understanding and applying science in one's coaching practice
-"Rapid-fire" miscellaneous training topics
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Teun van Erp is a sports scientist, whose PhD research included data from 4 years of training of 21 Team Sunweb cyclists. Teun used this incredible data set to characterise training load, intensity, and performance at the cycling World Tour level. After a long stint at Team Sunweb, Teun is now focusing on his academic career in Stellenboch, South Africa.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Different measures of training load and how they stack up in scientific research
-Pros and cons of using Training Stress Score (TSS), Lucia's TRIMP (heart rate based measure), and session-RPE to quantify training load
-Comparing the training characteristics of male and female professional cyclists
-Training Intensity Distribution
-The types of moderate and high intensity training used by professional cyclists
-The use of different cadences in training
-Advice to amateur cyclists and triathletes for improving cycling performance
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Dr. Kush Joshi is a Sports and Exercise Medicine practitioner and consultant and Dr. Joel McCay practises and consults in haematology. Kush and Joel join us to discuss blood testing and biomarkers important for triathletes and endurance athletes in general.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-What are the most important biomarkers that triathletes and endurance athletes should be aware of and keep track of?
-When and how often to get a blood panel done
-Reference ranges, and the differences between athletes and sedentary people
-Health and injury risks associated with inadequacies in certain biomarkers
-Specific discussion around serum iron, ferritin, vitamin D, thyroid hormones, sex hormones, vitamin B12, blood count, hemoglobin, etc.
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Professor John Hawley is one of the world's leading researchers on the cellular and molecular basis of endurance sports adaptations within skeletal muscle. Additionally, his area of expertise covers the interaction of exercise and diet, and practical implications of this such as "train low" (with low carbohydrate availability) strategies to improve performance.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-The adaptations in response to endurance training that take place in skeletal muscle
-Using nutritional interventions to enhance adaptations: the "train low" strategy
-Fiber types (fast-twitch and slow-twitch muscle fibers) and how muscle fiber profile may influence training strategies
-The relative importance of musculoskeletal (peripheral) adaptations vs. cardiovascular (central) adaptations for endurance athletes
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Mark Pearce is a triathlon coach with a strong background in physiology and sports science, including working as the physiologist of the British Triathlon Olympic team from 2002 until 2010. He has been to three Olympics (2004, 2008 and 2012) as physiologist and coach, and brings a wealth of experience from high performance sports, that he now applies to both professional and age-group triathletes in his coaching practice.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Mark's coaching principles
-Interval training
-Periodisation
-Heat adaptation
-Training intensity distribution
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Marcel Wouda is a swim and open water swimming coach from the Netherlands, who has coached and worked with multiple Olympic gold medalists, including the 2008 and 2016 (men's and women's) Olympic open water champions Maarten van der Weijden, Ferry Weertman, and Sharon van Rouwendaal.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Marcel's open water swim coaching philosophy
-The specific demands of open water swim races, and training to meet those demands
-Example training weeks and key workouts for open water swimmers
-Periodisation
-Performance testing
-Dryland training
-Swim toys, gadgets and technology
-Advice for triathletes on improving their open water swimming
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Eirik Myhr Nossum is head coach of the Norwegian cross-country skiing national team. In this interview we discuss his training and coaching philosophy for cross-country skiing and generally for endurance training, and how it applies to elite and amateur endurance athletes, respectively.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Eirik's general training and coaching philosophy
-The training of world-class cross-country skiers
-Polarised training and training volume
-Interval and threshold training
-Periodisation
-Performance testing
-Advice for age-group endurance athletes
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Michael Rosenblat is a Canadian researcher working towards his PhD. In this interview we discuss one of his main research papers: a meta-analysis and systematic review comparing polarised training and threshold training in endurance sports. IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: -How polarised training and threshold training are defined in the scientific literature, and common misconceptions around this -The scientific evidence available comparing these training models -Why polarised training may work better than threshold training for endurance athletes -Just how polarised (high vs. moderate intensity) should polarised training be? -How strictly should athletes and coaches follow "hard numbers" in their training intensity distribution (between low, moderate, and high intensity)
Michael Rosenblat is a Canadian researcher working towards his PhD. In this interview we discuss one of his main research papers: a meta-analysis and systematic review all about interval training.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Long, medium, and short High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) compared with Sprint Interval Training (SIT)
-The scientific evidence available for trying to find the "optimal" type of interval training
-Why Long HIIT may have certain advantages over other types of HIIT as well as SIT
-Should athletes try to optimise (find the one best workout) or mix things up to get the best of all worlds?
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Hugo van den Broek is an elite running coach based in Kenya, with a professional running background himself and a 2:12 personal best for the marathon. In this interview, he discusses his training and coaching philosophy for distance running.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-The mental aspects of running and endurance sports
-Training volume and training intensity distribution
-Periodisation
-Threshold training
-Training monitoring
-Differences between fast-twitch and slow-twitch dominant athletes
-Training for time-crunched athletes
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Scott DeFilippis and Carrie Lester are both professional triathletes and coaches. They are also partners, and Scott coaches Carrie. In this interview we discuss a number of training-related topics, the overarching training philosophy of the couple, and the experiences and influences that led to this philosophy. We also discuss how age-groupers should apply these concepts.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Scott's and Carrie's athletic and coaching careers and backgrounds
-Being coached and mentored by Brett Sutton of TriSutto
-The influence of Gerry Rodrigues on their swim training
-Scott's and Carries coach-athlete relationship and process
-A normal training week and changes to the norm during Covid-19
-Differences between males and females in training and training tolerance
-Advice for age-groupers
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Nick Tiller, PhD, is a postdoc in exercise physiology and respiratory medicine, at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. In addition to his academic pursuits, he writes about science, health, exercise, critical-thinking, philosophy, and ultra-marathoning, and is an ultra-marathoner and endurance athlete himself. He is the author of "The Skeptic's Guide to Sports Science: Confronting Myths of the Health and Fitness Industry".
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-The sports, health, and fitness industry, money and marketing, and the prevalence of unsubstantiated claims
-Examples of hyped-up or straight out snake-oil products in the industry
-How to be a critical thinker and protect yourself from falling prey to false marketing claims
-Understanding critical thinking: Cognitive biases and logical fallacies
-Understanding science: the concepts of scientific consensus, statistical significance, and meaningful effect/effect size
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Sebastian Weber is a sports scientist, coach of world class cyclists and endurance athletes, and consultant of multiple world class cycling teams and other endurance sports organisations and federations. He is also the co-founder of the physiological performance software INSCYD. In this two-part interview we discuss recent updates to the INSCYD platform and go deep into physiology and training concepts relevant for optimising endurance performance.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Block periodisation vs. mixing different types of training
-Time-course of adaptations for VO2max and VLaMax
-The challenges of increasing VLaMax
-Potential issues of high-intensity training when your VLaMax is low
-Differences between VLaMax and VLaMax training between cycling, running, and swimming
-Training zones
-Training stress/load and recovery, and using carbohydrate combustion rates to figure out how much intensity is feasible to do
-Differences between testing in the aero position compared to sitting up
-How world tour cycling teams are using INSCYD
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Sebastian Weber is a sports scientist, coach of world class cyclists and endurance athletes, and consultant of multiple world class cycling teams and other endurance sports organisations and federations. He is also the co-founder of the physiological performance software INSCYD. In this two-part interview we discuss recent updates to the INSCYD platform and go deep into physiology and training concepts relevant for optimising endurance performance.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-INSCYD's Power Performance Decoder (PPD) - a tool that can take any combination of data (lactate, VO2, or power only) and calculate VO2max, VLaMax and anaerobic threshold with a high degree of accuracy
-The accuracy of the PPD, and how it compares to traditional lactate or ventilatory testing
-The mechanism of calculating VO2max and VLaMax using power data only
-The original VLaMax testing protocol, and why it's near impossible to "DIY" it
-Best practices for executing the testing protocol
-FatMax: confusions around the metric and what it depends on
-Benchmark values (and realistic expectations) for VO2max and VLaMax for males and females
-How physiological testing on the bike relates (or doesn't) to running and swimming
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Professor Louise Burke is Head of Sports Nutrition at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS). Through her career she has worked both practically with applied nutrition science as well as deep in academia, so she has a great perspective on both ends of the spectrum. In recent years, much of her research has been focused on investigating the effects of low-carbohydrate, high-carbohydrate, and periodised carbohydrate dietary interventions on endurance performance. This research is the topic of today's discussion.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-The "Supernova" studies - comparing the effects of low-carbohydrate, high-carbohydrate and periodised carbohydrate intake on endurance performance
-How quickly does it take to get fat-adapted?
-The impact of fat adaptation on fat oxidation and performance
-Why a constant high-carbohydrate diet outperformed the more sophisticated periodised carbohydrate diet
SHOWNOTES:
https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts236/
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Josh Poertner has spent most of his life in the cycling industry. First racing professionally in Europe, then working with Zipp as technical director before becoming the CEO of Silca. He also consults with professional cycling teams. Josh knows all the ins and outs of tire pressure optimisation, a topic we discuss in-depth in this interview. We also discuss a variety of other equipment upgrades that can make you faster on the bike, and importantly, the hierarchy of getting the most watts for your buck when it comes to such purchases.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Optimising tire pressure (and the potential cost of getting it wrong)
-Equipment choices and watts-for-buck: bike frame, wheels, and nutrition and hydration setup
-Equipment choices and watts-for-buck: helmet, clothing, socks, shoes and shoe covers
-Equipment choices and watts-for-buck: drivetrain friction, ceramic bearings, oversized pulleys, 1x drivetrain
SHOWNOTES:
https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts235/
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ROKA - The finest triathlon wetsuits, apparel, equipment, and eyewear on the planet. Trusted by Javier Gómez, Gwen Jorgensen, Flora Duffy, Mario Mola, Lucy Charles and others. Visit roka.com/tts for 20% off your order.
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Dr. Ajmol Ali is Associate Professor at Massey University and one of the author's of the most up-to-date meta-analysis on the use of caffeine as an ergogenic aid in endurance sports. In this episode Dr. Ali discusses this meta-analysis (including 44 studies and more than a thousand total participants), the findings, practical applications, and limitations and direction for future research on caffeine in endurance sports.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-The background on caffeine in endurance sports, including the time on WADA's prohibited substances list
-The differences between the meta-analysis conducted by Dr. Ali and previous reviews and meta-analyses, including the specific inclusion criteria and reasons behind them
-The findings: 2-3% improvement in endurance performance longer than 5 minutes when ingesting 3-6 mg/kg bodyweight prior to the event
-Responders and non-responders: how factors such as caffeine metabolism and sensitivity (determined by specific genes) may impact the effect each individual gets from caffeine
-Washout period: do you need to taper off your coffee consumption before an event to get the benefits of caffeine supplementation on race day?
SHOWNOTES:
https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts234/
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ROKA - The finest triathlon wetsuits, apparel, equipment, and eyewear on the planet. Trusted by Javier Gómez, Gwen Jorgensen, Flora Duffy, Mario Mola, Lucy Charles and others. Visit roka.com/tts for 20% off your order.
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Dr. Margo Mountjoy, Associate Clinical Professor at McMaster University is a sports medicine clinician and an academic. She is the lead author of the 2018 IOC concensus statement on Relative Energy Deficiency in Sports (RED-S, previously known as the "Female Athlete Triad"). In this episode we discuss RED-S, it's symptoms and root cause, screening and diagnosis, treatment and recovery and more.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Health and performance consequences of RED-S
-The root cause of RED-S: energy deficincy
-Prevalence, risk groups and risk factors, and early warning signs of RED-S
-RED-S in female and male athletes - beyond the female athlete triad
-How to avoid RED-S
-Energy deficiency and calorie deficit: what is an acceptable range during periods of weight loss?
-Screening and diagnosis, treatment, and recovery time course of RED-S
SHOWNOTES:
https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts233/
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ROKA - The finest triathlon wetsuits, apparel, equipment, and eyewear on the planet. Trusted by Javier Gómez, Gwen Jorgensen, Flora Duffy, Mario Mola, Lucy Charles and others. Visit roka.com/tts for 20% off your order.
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Phil Burt is a world renowned bike fitter and physiotherapist who has spent 12 years with British Cycling and 5 years with Team Sky. In this episode we go deep into the topic of bike fitting, covering topics ranging from physiotherapy and injury prevention through power production and aerodynamics.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Physiotherapy, injury prevention, and bike fitting
-The balance between aerodynamics, power production, and comfort
-How to adapt to a new position on the bike
-How to optimise aerodynamics through bike fitting
-Saddles and saddle health
SHOWNOTES:
https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts232/
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Coach Frank Jakobsen came into triathlon coaching via an elite swimming background and later on alpinism. He quickly gained credibility through being the mentor of Ironman World Champion Craig "Crowie" Alexander, and has since coached a large number of professional long distance triathletes. In this episode, Frank discusses his views on triathlon performance, training, and mindset.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Frank's ten-point checklist for triathlon success
-Goal-setting and motivation
-Training philosophy, and the difference between making more vs. making bigger mitochondria.
-Differences and similarities between age-groupers' and professionals' approach to the sport
-Transitioning from age-group to professional racing
SHOWNOTES:
https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts231/
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ROKA - The finest triathlon wetsuits, apparel, equipment, and eyewear on the planet. Trusted by Javier Gómez, Gwen Jorgensen, Flora Duffy, Mario Mola, Lucy Charles and others. Visit roka.com/tts for 20% off your order.
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Juli Benson is a 1996 US Olympian in the 1500 m turned elite running coach, with among other accomplishments coaching Jenny Simpson to her 1500m World Championship victory. In this episode she describes her coaching philosophy, and also discusses the lack of female endurance coaches, in particular at the highest level.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Juli's coaching philosophy and influences
-Periodisation
-The balance of volume and intensity
-Strength and conditioning
-Nutrition, and navigating disordered eating
-The lack of female endurance coaches, in particular at the elite level, and what to do about it
SHOWNOTES:
https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts230/
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ROKA - The finest triathlon wetsuits, apparel, equipment, and eyewear on the planet. Trusted by Javier Gómez, Gwen Jorgensen, Flora Duffy, Mario Mola, Lucy Charles and others. Visit roka.com/tts for 20% off your order.
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