80/20 Triathlon (revisited) with Matt Fitzgerald | EP#152

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

Health, Swimming, Endurancesports, Run, Cycling, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Ironman, Swim, Bike, Sports, Running, Sportscience, Triathlon

4.9 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

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. IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: -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 SHOWNOTES: https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts104/ THAT TRIATHLON SHOW HOMEPAGE: www.thattriathlonshow.com SPONSORS: Precision Hydration - One-size doesn't fit all when it comes to hydration. Take Precision Hydration's FREE sweat test and learn how you should hydrate. Use the discount code THATTRIATHLONSHOW and get your first box for free! Stac - The Stac Zero is the world's quietest bike trainer. No noise and no tire wear, since it doesn't even touch the tire! It is also very portable and affordable. Even more so when using the discount code TTS20 for 20% off when you buy your Stac bike trainer (any of the models). LINKS AND RESOURCES: 80/20 Triathlon: Get Faster By Training Slower with David Warden | EP#121 Training Priorities: Seiler's Hierarchy of Endurance Training Needs | EP#120 "80/20 Triathlon" - Matt's and David Warden's new book 80/20 Endurance - Matt's and David Warden's website Matt's personal website Matt's Twitter RATE AND REVIEW: If you enjoy the show, please help me out by subscribing, rating and reviewing: www.scientifictriathlon.com/rate/ CONTACT: Want to send feedback, questions or just chat? Email me at mikael@scientifictriathlon.com or connect on Twitter - my handle is @SciTriat.

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0:00.0	rather than go down the rabbit hole of trying to, you know, find exactly what the perfect
0:05.0	percentage is, I think the important thing is that you should intend to do most of your
0:13.6	training at low intensity and you should follow through on that intention. The training you
0:19.6	intend to do at low intensity should actually
0:21.6	be executed at low intensity. And most endurance athletes aren't doing that.
0:26.6	That Traflon Show, 152. Hey, what's up, everybody, and welcome back to another episode of that triathlon show, the podcast presented by Scientific Traathlon.com.
0:53.3	I'm your host, Michael Michael and on today's episode I
0:56.0	interview Matt Fitzgerald who is a very famous coach, author, endurance athlete and
1:01.9	nutritionist. And our topic today is 80-20 training, which means training, doing 80% of your
1:10.2	training duration at an easy intensity and only 20% at a moderate or high intensity.
1:18.8	And Matt, along with David Warden, co-wrote the book 8020 Triathlon, which has just been released a few weeks ago.
1:27.1	And we had obviously David come on the show before in episode 121 to talk about this.
1:32.9	So you can go back to that and listen to it as well.
1:36.2	But today with Matt, we dig a bit deeper into the topic and get quite practical, to be honest.
1:41.9	With David, we talked a lot about the research behind it but today
1:46.1	with matt we focus more on the application side of things and what athletes should and should not do
1:52.2	when it comes to doing the right training intensity distributions in their training and following
1:58.2	8020 although as we'll get into there's no magic in round numbers.
2:03.9	A lot of you have been sending in questions about this topic as well, and I do hope that,
2:08.7	and think that we managed to cover all of those. I specify some listener questions that I got
2:14.8	through Facebook. If you aren't already a fan of scientific draft on Facebook, go and like that page because
2:20.2	that's where I sometimes post before I do interviews and give you the opportunity to chime in
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