Hey, what's up everybody and welcome back to That Triathlon Show, the podcast presented by

Scientific Traathlon.com.

I'm your host, Michael Erickson, and this episode is beginner tip 6, where I'll talk about

slow and steady endurance training versus interval training.

So this comes about from a listener question from Antoine, from Switzerland, which is, by the

way, a country where I've lived and I really loved it there.

I lived in Lausanne during my exchange semester back in the day five years ago, four years

ago.

And Antoine writes, one thing I would be curious to hear about

as a beginner is endurance versus interval training in all three disciplines. So that is a great topic,

and I'm very happy to bring this topic up on one of these beginner tips. I'll share my quick thoughts, but I'll caveat

it by saying that there's just no one-size-fits-all answer to this question or this topic,

as is the case with most training questions, of course, but these are just kind of thought

processes that you can use, but at the end of the there's there's no formula for how to how to go about

this but the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing as is commonly said and that

main thing when it comes to triathlon training is consistency so interval workouts they won't make up

for losing consistency and missing workouts.

That's just the way the world works in endurance sports.

The second thing when you start out is that you need, that is another secondary main thing,

sort of, is to learn technique, especially for swimming, but also running and cycling. So that doesn't

mean that you need to do only technique training until it's perfect, because it never will be.

But in the very, very early days, technique training definitely should take a priority and it should

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