80/20 Training: The Key to Performance or Marketing Hype?
Taren's MōTTIV Method Podcast
Taren Gesell
4.7 • 843 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode of the MOTTIV podcast, Taren and Sport Scientist Nick Jankovskis dive into the concept of 80-20 training. What exactly IS 80-20 training, and is it the be-all and end-all to training for endurance sports? Or is there a more nuanced method that will get better results? We answer all of the questions you probably have!
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| 0:00.0 | Everywhere runners and triathletes look, athletes and coaches are raving about 80-20 training. |
| 0:06.0 | They say it's the secret to healthy, consistent, amazing personal performances. |
| 0:11.0 | They say it balances recovery, intensity, and training volume perfectly. |
| 0:15.0 | But is it really the best way to train, or are we all just getting swept up in marketing hype? |
| 0:20.0 | In today's episode, we are |
| 0:22.2 | diving deep into what 80-20 training really is, looking at the research and hearing from |
| 0:27.5 | athletes who have used it to success and failure. We'll explore if this method is backed by science |
| 0:33.7 | or simply a clever marketing tool. So if you are serious about improving your training, |
| 0:38.6 | stick around because this could completely change the way you approach your workouts. |
| 0:43.9 | With us today to sort through how athletes should think about 80-20 training is Motive CEO |
| 0:49.3 | Terran Gazelle, who was a top 1% triathlet in the world and a record-setting marathon swimmer. And as always, we have |
| 0:57.2 | Resident Motive Sports Scientist Nick Jenkovskis to explain what the evidence has to say about 80-20 |
| 1:03.3 | training. Now, if you are watching on YouTube and you want to listen, you can find the motive |
| 1:08.4 | training show wherever you get your podcasts, or if you are listening to us but you'd like to watch us talk, you can find the motive training show wherever you get your podcasts, or if you |
| 1:11.7 | are listening to us but you'd like to watch us talk, you can check out the motive training |
| 1:15.8 | show on YouTube. So, Terran, Nick, who is going to start this off to explain what 80-20 |
| 1:21.7 | training actually is? It is a little bit science-y. Realistically, 80-20 is this concept of training of, well, how are we distributing our intensity |
| 1:31.3 | across the training week? |
| 1:32.9 | 80% of which is going to be very low or low intensity, and then 20% of the high-intensity |
| 1:38.3 | aspect. |
| 1:40.5 | And then, I guess within that, and we can go on and on now about, well, how do people break this down? |
| 1:45.9 | But I've always approached it and looked at it as like most of your work to really oversimplified even further is most of your work is long, easy, slow. |
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