What's up Trainiacs? This is Triathlon Taryn. This is no triathlon Kim, also known as NTK.

In my 20s, I was 215 pounds and I was unhappy working the desk job I was at. Now I'm a 941 Ironman athlete who, with your much appreciated attention, gets to make a living in the sport that I love.

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and training from amazing people around the world to help you get to your start lines confident

and your finish lines strong.

And as the resident non-triathlete, I try to keep this show fun and accessible for everybody.

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Morning, trainees, you might have seen recently that we just released our Triathlon Nutrition

Foundation's book.

And this can be found at triathlon nutrition foundations.com. It's the fourth book in our

foundation series. Now, what these are are books designed for the newer triathletes who want to get

a foundational understanding of how to approach the swim, how to approach the bike, how to

approach the run, how to approach now bike, how to approach the run, how to approach

now nutrition. And these are the basics. Now, these aren't the elite techniques that are going

to take people to Kona. These are the foundations that are going to set you up to be able to get

to elite. Now, if you don't yet have just a general understanding of how to

train for swim, bike, run, or perform proper training and race nutrition, you're never going to

get to your potential. So the fact of the matter is that so many of the media publications out there and books are

written for people that are already at that like sub-elite or elite level, but for the vast

majority of us, like 50, 60% of people that line up to the field, they aren't even there. They don't yet know

the basics of swim, bike, run training, or how to put together a nutrition plan. So that's

who these books are designed for. Triathlon Nutrition Foundations is our shortest book because the proper approach to triathlon race nutrition

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