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 beginner tip 17, where I'll talk

about the comfort zone and the importance of getting out of it. What is the comfort zone?

Well, that's when you're doing what you're

used to doing in the way that you're used to doing it at all times always. This can be the way

you train, it can be where you train in what environment and other conditions, it can be who

you train with, what group of people, if anybody at all, that you

train with. And the importance of getting out of the comfort zone, the whole idea of this

episode is that just one hour of training way outside of the comfort zone can be worth

100 hours of training within the comfort zone. And that is why it's so valuable to at times strategically have training

or even things outside of training,

but triathlon related that you do outside of your comfort zone.

And that one hour versus 100 hours, that may sound like a figure of speech it is not actually maybe

right now when you're a beginner because even normal training as long as you do it consistently

is going to help you improve a lot but when you get a bit more advanced you're going to find

that you have to do a ton of training to make very small incremental

improvements when you train your normal training. But then there are those special things that

you can do that you can add to your training that can add a whole lot of decrease your race

times by a whole lot for the time investment that you put into it.

So for example, let's say that you're not very comfortable descending hills on the bike

and you have a hilly race coming up and you can train and train and train on the bike

to make just a small improvement in how fit you are on the bike, at a later point when you're more advanced.

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