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 18, where I'll talk about

how to balance your swim, bike and run training. This is one of the most common questions that I get and I'll start off by giving you

just a simple rule of thumb that can work well as a starting point if you're fairly balanced

across all three disciplines and that would be to spend around 25% of your time swimming,

40 to 45% on the bike and 30 to 35% on the run. But that is just a

starting point. There is no one size fits all solution and how much you do in each sport can

really vary drastically from one person to another, depending on many different factors.

And I'll actually, a bit later in this episode, I will talk you through some examples of

athletes that I coach and how they differ a lot in their training distribution between and the

balance between the different disciplines, all based on their different backgrounds and goals

and those sorts of things. But before that, the factors that determine how much you should

train in each discipline and how to distribute your training time, they include your strengths and

weaknesses. Like, do you have a very strong discipline that you don't need to train as much or a weak one that you need to train much more to get it up towards the same level as the others? Also your injury history. Do you have a history of injuries in a certain discipline like running is a common one for example many

athletes need to keep the running volume relatively low due to injuries then it also depends on

your goal race or event if you're training for what for you will be a very long event it can be

maybe you're even if you're a beginner you're training for half will be a very long event. It can be maybe even if you're a beginner,

you're training for a half or even a full Iron Man. And one of the examples that I have later

is training for a full Iron Man as a beginner. Then that will determine how you should train as

well because for those longer events, the bike becomes relatively more and more important, but also the run

compared to the swim, whereas in the shorter events there is a more even balance and the bike

run and swim have slightly more even distributions for shorter goal events.

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