Hey, what's up everybody and welcome back to that triathlon show, the podcast presented by

Scientific Triathlon.com.

I'm your host, Michael, and this episode is Beginer Tip 12, where I'll talk about triathlon training

and weight loss and also training considerations if you are overweight.

Let's start with that second topic because it's a bit shorter.

I don't have much to say about that, really.

Cycling and swimming aren't really affected at all in terms of how you can and cannot train

by your weight because they are not weight-bearing sports,

really.

So you can do whatever you would do if you were not overweight.

Running, on the other hand, is affected.

It's much more risky if you carry excess weight because that extra mass that you carry

around, it causes larger impact forces on your body, on your joints and your bone.

So the risk for injury increases.

So there are a couple of things to do about this.

First, you should minimize or skip intensity completely while you are losing weight at least in

the first initial phase when you kind of hope to get a lot of that extra weight off it's if it's like a

six week period or a two month period or even a three month period you don't need to do any running

intensity just

run normally without intense intervals or anything like that as a beginner you probably would not

do too much of that anyway it's more about base building so but just want to say that skip that

completely that's my recommendation.

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