Kelly McNulty is a PhD candidate at Northumbria University. Kelly's research investigates the effect of the menstrual cycle and hormonal contraceptive use on performance, recovery, and adaptation in women in sports. In this interview, Kelly walks as through the evidence-base and practical recommendations for all female athletes and coaches of female athletes.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-The different phases and hormonal changes of the menstrual cycles
-How these changes (theoretically) might impact exercise performance
-The actual evidence-base and state of the science on menstrual cycle phase and its impact on exercise performance
-Practical advice for individualising your approach to training according to the menstrual cycle phases
-The evidence-base and state of the science on hormonal contraception use and its impact on exercise performance
-General advice and takehome messages for female athletes
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Helle Frederiksen is a coach and former professional athlete. In her racing days, Helle competed in the London 2012 Olympics, she is the ITU Long Distance World Champion from 2018, and she holds the fastest ever time in women's half distance racing, with a 3:55:50 from Challenge Bahrain. In this interview, we discuss Helle's training and coaching philosophies, as well as the importance of racing to develop, and how to get the best out of yourself on race day.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Helle's background as a professional athlete
-Her coaching and training philosophy
-Training on feel
-The importance of racing, and how to execute on race day
-Advice on fitting training into a busy lifestyle
-Differences and similarities in how to approach training between amateurs and pros
-Advice on improving your swim, bike, and run, respectively
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Golo Röhrken is a medical doctor, sports scientist, and triathlon coach. In this interview we discuss a study he conducted, which was the first ever randomised controlled trial comparing polarised training with other training intensity distributions specifically in the sport of triathlon.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-The first ever randomised controlled trial of polarised training and moderate intensity training distributions in triathletes
-How the two training programs were implemented and executed
-Different ways of quantifying training intensity distributions, and problems or misunderstandings that these differences lead to
-Golo's coaching advice and practical takehome messages from this study and beyond
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Lesley Paterson is a coach and multiple World Champion across XTERRA and ITU Cross-Triathlon. Lesley joins us to discuss training principles as well as specific advice for racing XTERRA or cross-triathlon.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Leslie's training principles and approach to coaching
-Top tips for improving your swim, bike, and run
-Key workouts in each of the three disciplines, and an example training week
-Training advice for XTERRA, including when and how to do specific training
-Racing advice for XTERRA, including nutrition, gear, and more
-Advice for time-crunched athletes
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Emma Carney is a double ITU World Champion, World Triathlon Hall of Fame inductee, and dominated women's triathlon in the mid-90s. She retired from racing in 2004, and is now coaching at both high performance and age-group levels.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Emma's main coaching philosophy and training principles
-Tips for developing your swim, bike, and run
-Key workouts in each of the three disciplines
-Training periodisation, workout execution, and more...
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Michael Crawley is a 2h20min marathon runner who has competed internationally for Scotland and Great Britain, and he is assistant professor in social anthropology at Durham University. Michael spent 15 months in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, running with a group of professional runners and observing their training and their lives. The result of this experience is Michael's first book, "Out of Thin Air: Running Wisdom and Magic from Above the Clouds in Ethiopia".
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-"A day in the life" of Ethiopian runners
-What a typical training week looks like
-Key workouts for the Ethiopians
-The importance of the environment and terrain (altitude, "magic air", special surfaces, forests,...)
-The group effect - the importance of training together in an individual sport
-Mindset and psychology of the Ethiopians
-What can Western, non-professional runners and triathletes learn and implement from professional runners in Ethiopia?
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Scientific Triathlon coach Lachlan Kerin returns to the podcast to discuss how to plan and execute your training so that there is an appropriate balance between training load and fatigue.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-How to balance load and recovery at a macro (season/yearly) and meso (roughly monthly) timescale
-How to balance load and recovery at an acute, micro timescale (roughly weekly)
-Full rest days and easy days - when and how to use each of these
-How to account for intense training days, big volume days, and strength training sessions when planning your load-recovery balance
-Methods for tracking recovery and training readiness
-When (and when not to) and how to adjust training for fatigue
-The impact of age, sex, experience, athletic profile and more on the load-recovery balance equation
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Scientific Triathlon coach James Teagle is back on That Triathlon Show. In today's episode, he shares advice on how best to train and prepare for sprint and Olympic distance races for age-group triathletes.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Base training for sprint and Olympic distance athletes
-Specificity: when, why and how should training start to really emulate your goal event
-The balance between training to the race demands and to your athletic profile
-Executing the race - tips (pacing, strategy, preparation, and more) for getting the most out of yourself on race day
-Example key workouts to use in the lead-up to the race
-Tips for training on a tight time budget
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Strength and conditioning coach Dave Cripps of TriTenacious and Coalition Performance returns for his second interview on That Triathlon Show. In this interview we discuss some key aspects of strength training for triathletes and endurance athletes, that when done right will greatly increase the effectiveness of your resistance training.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-The importance of intensity (weights) and intent (~power/speed) when lifting
-Why is technique important in order to reap the benefits of strength training?
-Exercise specificity and the Goldilocks principle - not too little but not too much
-Workout structure: how to choose number of reps, sets rest duration, and progression from one workout to the next
-Advice for home-based strength training
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Kolie Moore is a cycling coach to athletes of all levels and disciplines. He has consulted for World Tour teams and world champion cyclists, and is a national championship medalist himself. In this interview, we discuss Kolie's approach to coaching, and go into detail on topics like testing protocols and how to use different overarching types of workouts (think endurance, threshold, and so on) in your training.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Kolie's training principles and approach to coaching
-Testing protocols, testing recommendations, and mistakes to avoid when it comes to testing
-The how, when and why of different types of workouts: endurance rides, tempo, sweet spot, and threshold rides, and high intensity intervals
-Periodisation and planning out a season
-Nutrition recommendations
-Strength training recommendations
-Advice for time-crunched athletes
-Kolie's top tips for self-coached athletes to improve their training effectiveness
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Richard Ferguson, PhD, has his main research interests in the areas of blood flow restricted (BFR) exercise on skeletal muscle and peripheral vascular adaptations. In this interview, we discuss his research findings on these topics and how they may relate to endurance athletes.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-A primer on adaptations to endurance training and limiters to endurance performance
-Blood Flow Restricted (BFR) exercise: what is it, how may it be beneficial, and what are the mechanisms behind it
-BFR combined with Sprint Interval Training: Theory and application in endurance sports.
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Aitor Viribay Morales is a performance nutritionist at Astana Proteam (a World Tour cycling team) with a background in science and academia. In this interview we discuss his research findings and practical experience with ingesting really high amounts of carbohydrate (up to 120 g/h) in races, and the effects such high-carb strategies can have.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Aitor's studies in mountain marathon runners on high-carbohydrate (up to 120 g/h) intake during racing and its effects
-Performance effects, recovery effects, and muscle damage effects of high-carbohydrate intake in races
-Is there not an absorption rate limit of 90 g/h as we have been told?
-How to train the gut to absorb 120 g/h of carbohydrate
-How do the potential benefits of high-carbohydrate intake in racing relate to training?
-Metabolic flexibility, and the height and width of the fat oxidation curve
-Practical takeaways
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Wolfram Bott is the head coach of the German Triathlon Federation development center in Freiburg. This is a squad for some the most promising young talents in the country. Wolfram also has a decorated background as coach of long-distance athletes such as Nils Frommhold, Christian Brader, and Andreas and Michael Raelert.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Wolfram's coaching and training principles
-Periodisation, from structuring a season to structuring a week
-Key aspects in developing the swim, bike, and run, respectively
-Differences and similarities between short-course and long-course racing
-Tips for age-group athletes
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Robert Gorgos is the team nutritionist of Bora-Hansgrohe Cycling Team (a World Tour level team). In this interview, he discusses his role and responsibilities as nutritionist at a World Tour team, and how cyclists at the highest level approach nutrition in racing, training, and in their day to day.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Robert's role and responsibilities as the nutritionist of Bora-Hansgrohe
-What's changed in the last few years, and what might change in the next few years in nutrition in pro cycling?
-Energy demands, macronutrient needs, and intake of nutrition in meals and in training during normal training periods
-Nutrition during stage races (during the race and around the race)
-How to lose weight in a healthy and sustainable way
-The use of train-low strategies (training with low carbohydrate availability)
-How to be able to take on large amounts of carbohydrate in races
-Common mistakes and top tips around nutrition for endurance athletes
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https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts267/
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Joachim Willén is a triathlon coach, and former professional triathlete and Olympian from Sweden. He is the head coach of the high school triathlon program Motala Rikstriathlongymnasium, which has the objective of developing the up and coming top talents of Swedish triathlon. Previous graduates of the program also includes Vasco Vilaça (still coached by Joachim), who took second in the ITU Triathlon World Championships in Hamburg 2020 (sprint distance).
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Joachim's training and coaching principles
-Coaching young athletes and long-term athlete development
-Training in a squad environment
-A typical training week of his high school triathletes
-Tips for swim, bike, and run training
-Developing mental strength
-Advice for age-group triathletes
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https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts266/
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Trent Stellingwerff, PhD, is the Director of Performance Solutions at the Canadian Sport Institute Pacific in Victoria, Canada. His primary research focuses are in the field of nutrition and physiology interactions, as well as in environmental (heat and altitude) physiology. In this interview, we discuss the current best practices from and applied and scientific perspective in endurance and ultra-endurance sports.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-The importance of nutrition, and the simplicity of doing it well enough
-Periodised nutrition and the "train-low" paradigm (training with low muscle glycogen levels)
-Specific advice for ultra-endurance athletes (athletes doing events lasting longer than 4 hours)
-Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S)
-Trent's top nutrition advice as an applied practitioner to endurance athletes
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Olav Aleksander Bu is a sports scientist and elite coach working with the Norwegian Triathlon Olympic team. He is heavily involved in testing, performance optimisation, and the scientific approach adopted by the Norwegian Olympic Team, that has brought so much success in races from Super League through World Triathlon Series and Ironman 70.3 for athletes like Kristian Blummenfelt and Gustav Iden.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Olav's role and responsibilities with the Norwegian Triathlon Olympic team
-Changes implemented in the team's training and methods over the course of Olav's work with them
-Testing methodologies
-Considerations of training at various intensities: from low to high intensities
-How to achieve very high training loads
-The impact of athlete phenotype on training planning
-Gadgets and technology
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https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts264/
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Ian Armiger is a professional swimming coach, former Director of Swimming at Loughborough University, Great Britain Team Head Coach, and Olympic coach. In this interview Ian discusses his coaching style and model, swim technique, advice for triathletes and triathlon swimming, and much more.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Ian's coaching style and training model
-Thoughts on swim technique, and triathlon-specific aspects
-Developing speed and power
-Useful swim tools to have in your toolbag
-Reverse periodisation in swimming
-Ian's top-3 tips for triathletes
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https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts263/
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Iñigo San Millán, PhD, is the head coach of the World Tour cycling team UAE Team Emirates, and the personal coach of Tour de France winner Tadej Pogačar. He is also a professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine where he does clinical and research work in cellular metabolism, not only in exercise science but also in diabetes, cardiometabolic disease and cancer.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Iñigo's training approach: periodisation, intensity targets, balance of training and rest, and much more
-Metabolic testing: the protocol's Iñigo uses, and how the test results inform training decisions
-Differences and similarities between multisport like triathlon and sports like cycling and running
-Physiological underpinnings of endurance performance: lactate metabolism, central vs. peripheral adaptations, and more
-Top tips for age-group athletes
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https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts262/
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Kevin Poulton is a World Tour level cycling coach who has worked with top cyclists like Caleb Ewan, Alex Dowsett and Mat Hayman. He is also a former employee of Zwift and is incredibly knowledgeable in how to effectively incorporate indoor cycling in a training program, for professionals and amateurs alike.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Kevin's coaching and training principles
-Equipment and setup advice for indoor cycling
-How to effectively incorporate indoor training and racing into your program
-Heat adaptation and two-a-day's when training indoors
-Measuring core body temperature non-invasively with new technology
-Indoor block training in preparation for key races and Grand Tours
-Using INSCYD testing to refine training objectives and approaches
-Best practices for low-glycogen training
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https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts261/
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Marco Pinotti is head of performance of CCC Cycling Team (world tour level) and a former professional cyclist who is a six-time Italian Time Trial national champion. In this interview he discusses what it takes to become a good cycling time trial rider at a professional, World Tour level, but also what the key focus points for amateur riders focusing solely on time trials should be.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-What it takes to be a world class time trialist (including benchmark numbers)
-How world tour riders fit Time Trial (and Team Time Trial) training into their schedule
-How often to train on the Time Trial bike, indoor vs. outdoor training, motor pacing, key workouts and testing methods
-Aerodynamics: testing, equipment, and benchmark CdA:s
-Executing a good time trial: preparation, pacing, and what goes onto your bike computer
-Team Time Trial training and tactics
-Advice for amateurs focusing on time trials
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https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts260/
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Sebastian Zeller, PhD, is a full-time triathlon coach with a strong background in sports science. In this training talk we cover a number of key topics on endurance training, and Sebastian goes into detail on his approach and methodology.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Sebastian's coaching approach
-Using lab testing to individualise training
-Training structure and appropriate use of different intensity levels
-Key markers of performance: VO2max, VLaMax, FatmMax, Anaerobic Threshold, Lactate Minimum
-The impact of muscle fiber type (fast twitch and slow twitch) on training
-Using Heart Rate Variability to analyse training
-Projects on carbohydrate combustion and ketones with Bora Hansgrohe cycling team
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https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts259/
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Professor Grégoire Millet is one of the world's foremost researchers in the field of altitude training and hypoxic training. He combines his academic prowess with a background as an elite triathlete and coach, and is therefore in a perfect position to not just do the science, but actually apply it in the real world. In this episode, we discuss all things altitude training, plus general training principles from a few of the world's best athletes that prof. Millet has worked with and published data from.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-What happens physiologically when training at altitude or in hypoxic conditions
-The potential performance gains from altitude training, and how everybody can be a responder
-How to structure altitude training to maximise the performance benefits
-New(ish) paradigms in altitude training: Live high-train low and high, and Repeated Sprint training in Hypoxia (RSH)
-Living at altitude year round
-Altitude champers and tents
-Dissecting the performances of Martin Fourcade (the most successful biathlete of the last decade, and the most successful French Olympian of all time) and Kilian Jornet (mountaineer, trail and mountain runner, summited Mount Everest twice in a week without supplemental oxygen)
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https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts258/
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Mark Burnley, PhD, is an exercise physiologist at the University of Kent. Mark's main research interests include oxygen uptake (VO2) kinetics, where an important application is how to optimally use warm-ups, as well as Critical Power, which forms the transition point (or transition area) between the heavy and severe exercise domains. Because of the non-steady-state nature of exercising above CP, it has significant importance in a large number of training and racing applications.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-VO2 kinetics - what does it mean?
-The fast and slow components oxygen uptake
-Heavy priming exercise and its effects on VO2 kinetics (or the importance of a good, specific warm-up)
-Critical Power (CP) - what is it and how does it compare to other "threshold concepts"
-How to assess CP and use it in training
-How fatigue develops differently in the different exercise intensity domains (moderate, heavy, severe) and interventions to minimise fatigue
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https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts257/
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Iñigo Mujika is a sports physiologist, associate professor at the University of Basque Country, and an elite triathlon and swimming coach. His research areas include topics such as tapering, recovery, detraining and overtraining. Through all of his coaching and applied physiology work, Iñigo is extremely knowledgeable in how to transfer his scientific knowledge into practical and actionable training and planning insights.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Periodisation in practice: linear, reverse, block... who might benefit from what type of periodisation and when?
-How to structure recovery from a macro level (taking a season break) to a micro level (time required between hard sessions) into your training plan
-Tapering: best practices, scientific findings, potential benefits, and how to factor in individuality
-The time course of building and losing fitness (gaining adaptations vs. detraining)
SHOWNOTES:
https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts256/
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