Building a Powerful Body for Short Course Racing

The TriDot Triathlon Podcast

TriDot Triathlon Training

Running, Fitness, Sports, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 629 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

While long course requires stamina, short course racing involves a lot of power and speed! Two-time short course National Champion and TriDot Coach Ben Sommerville joins Coach Ryan Tibball on the podcast to emphasize the importance of building speed before your next short course race. From the timing of fueling and proper form and technique, to powering through those tough training sessions, and even the value of brick workouts, Ben and Ryan break down each discipline and provide tips on how to become more powerful in each sport.

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0:00.0	This is the TriDOT podcast.
0:03.9	TriDOT uses your training data and genetic profile combined with predictive analytics and artificial intelligence to optimize your training,
0:12.8	giving you better results in less time with fewer injuries.
0:16.8	Our podcast is here to educate, inspire, and entertain.
0:21.7	We'll talk all things triathlon with expert coaches and special guests.
0:26.9	Join the conversation and let's improve together.
0:34.4	Welcome to the TriDOT podcast.
0:39.0	Last week on our show, it was an Iron Man focused episode.
0:43.2	And so today we're going to show some love to our short course athletes.
0:46.9	A lot of triathletes race both middle and long and Olympic and sprint distance throughout the course of their season.
0:53.9	Some people exclusively keep it short.
0:56.1	Some people exclusively go along.
0:57.8	So hopefully this episode applies to a lot of y'all out there who like going short
1:02.8	and hard and fast and burning it to the ground.
1:05.3	I've got two of our coaches on this show specifically to chat with me about how to build a strong body for short
1:13.3	course racing if long course racing takes building stamina staying short and succeeding when you go
1:19.7	short takes being strong so excited to hear about that from our coaches the two coaches on our
1:25.9	episode today to talk to me about this are Ben
1:28.4	Somerville. It's his first time on the show for a full-length episode. He's been on our
1:33.7	coach cool-down, but before giving some tips. But Ben is a two-time national champion at the
1:40.2	sprint distance. Let me say that again. A two-time national champion at the sprint distance.
1:45.9	He is a coach with precision coaching based in the UK, and he is Tridot's digital marketing
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