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Bike Fitting Q&A with Phil Burt | EP#254

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

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

4.9596 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2020

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Bike Fitting Q&A with Phil Burt | EP#254 Phil Burt is a world renowned bike fitter and physiotherapist who has spent 12 years with British Cycling and 5 years with Team Sky. Phil is back for his second interview on That Triathlon Show to answer listener questions around bike fitting.   IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: -Crank length - are shorter cranks beneficial?  -Finding the right balance of comfort, power, and aerodynamics -Saddle considerations -The process of do-it-yourself bike fitting -How to find a really good bike fitter -Cleat position -Oval chainrings -Bike fitting considerations for road bikes, TT bikes and mountainbikes -Prevention and remedies for various aches and pains in cycling SHOWNOTES: https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts254/   SCIENTIFIC TRIATHLON AND THAT TRIATHLON SHOW WEBPAGE: www.scientifictriathlon.com/podcast   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 THATTRIATHLONSHOW15 to get 15% off your order OR use the code THATTRIATHLONSHOW and get your first box for free.   ROKA - The finest triathlon wetsuits, apparel, equipment, and eyewear on the planet. Trusted by Javier Gómez, Gwen Jorgensen, Flora Duffy, Mario Mola, Lucy Charles and others. Visit roka.com/tts for 20% off your order.   LINKS AND RESOURCES: Phil's website Phil's Twitter and Instagram Bike fitting with Phil Burt (former Team Sky) | EP#232   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 Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter.

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0:00.0

The Traflon Show, 254.

0:05.2

Hey, what's up, everybody.

0:19.5

Welcome back to another episode of that traathlon show.

0:23.4

The podcast presented by Scientific Traathlon.com.

0:27.3

I'm our host Michael, and on today's episode, I welcome back Phil Bert.

0:32.4

Phil is a bike fitter and physiotherapist who has spent a long time with British cycling and

0:38.5

Team Sky and this is his second interview on that trafalon show. In this episode, I sent out

0:46.1

requests for listener questions on scientific triathlon email newsletter and social media.

0:51.8

So what we'll do today with Phil is just go through as many as possible

0:55.9

of those questions. So thank you to all of you who sent in questions. There are many great

1:00.9

questions and we actually managed to cover most of them, even if some questions are kind of

1:06.3

duplicates of each other, asking the same thing. But we did get to most of them i think and some were left

1:12.6

because just because we were already running so so long that yeah we just got too many questions

1:18.1

but either way all your questions are very much appreciated so we'll get right into the interview

1:23.9

after thanking our sponsors precision hydration that you can find on

1:27.9

precision hydration.com they make electrolyte products that you can match to your individual

1:33.8

sweat sodium concentration and you can do that by taking a free online sweat test on their

1:39.6

website you can get 15% of their electric light products with the promo code.

1:46.5

That Traathlon Show 1-5.

1:50.3

And thank you to Roka that you can find on Roka.com.

1:57.9

In recent years, Roka has moved from being just a wetsuit and triathlon gear manufacturer,

2:00.5

focusing on things like wetsuits, trisuits and so on, to being a really heavy

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