Case study: How David qualified for Kona by training smarter and getting the details right | EP#130

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

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

4.9 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

David Nicholls is an age-group triathlete from the UK who recently qualified for Kona. He shares how he achieved this goal by being smarter, paying more attention to detail, and therefore getting the most out of his crunched-for-time training budget IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: -How David changed his approach to nutrition completely, which he attributes as the main reason for his success. -Improving your knowledge base and becoming smarter in all aspects of the sport through dedicated research -How David structured his training in general, and his swim, bike and run training specifically -The importance strength training and sleep and recovery had for him -How he managed to get his training done around a busy job and having a baby in the family -Improving -David's top tip for age-groupers in general, and those wanting to qualify for Kona. SHOWNOTES: https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts130/ THAT TRIATHLON SHOW HOMEPAGE: www.thattriathlonshow.com 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 THATTRIATHLONSHOW and get your first box for free! https://www.precisionhydration.com/pages/triathlon.html?source=thattriathlonshow LINKS AND RESOURCES: * Race-day fueling and The Core Diet with Jesse Kropelnicki | EP#40 * The Triathlete's Strength Training Formula | EP#81 * What Olympic swimmers REALLY eat - video recommended by David 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 Twitter - my handle is@SciTriat.

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0:00.0	I think by far that the biggest thing is to really, really increase your knowledge base in absolutely every aspect of the sport.
0:09.7	The Triathlon Show 130.
0:31.2	The Hey, what's up, everybody, and welcome back to another episode of that triathlon show.
0:35.2	The podcast presented by Scientific Triathlon.com.
0:37.0	I'm your host, Michael. I am still suffering from a bit of allergies
0:40.3	or a cold. I don't know quite what, but yeah, my voice is still not recovered. So, apologies for that.
0:49.0	In addition, I am currently at a training camp that I host in the Algarve. We're having a ton of fun, fantastic cycling, but I don't have quite my usual podcasting setup.
1:00.9	So if there are any issues with the audio here in the intro and outro, then that may be the reason.
1:07.5	But it should all be good and the interview was done at my usual setup my guest today is
1:14.1	david nichols from the united kingdom but he lives in moscow and he qualified for the ironman world
1:21.5	championships in uh or the of this year in the ironman South Africa race earlier this winter.
1:29.4	And we will discuss that, how he did that, and in particular how he got very precise.
1:35.3	He got the details right.
1:37.0	He did a lot of research.
1:38.9	He listened to this podcast for one thing, and he applied these things, and that made a massive difference to how he
1:46.6	performed and he managed to get the most out of his training he was time crunched he didn't
1:51.8	train as much as you would probably expect an age grouper in that age group category trained
1:58.0	to qualify for cona but he, really got the most of his time
2:02.5	investment and that is the topic of today's interview. You will learn all about that and get
2:07.5	the most important things that David learned what were the major drivers of his success in
2:13.6	today's interview. But first, big thank you to our sponsors, Precision Hydration.
2:20.0	Precision hydration make electrolyte products that keep you from losing too much electrolytes, sodium, potassium,
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