Case Study: The 40% swimming Ironman training plan with Lars Finanger | EP#155

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

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

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🗓️ 12 November 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Episode 155 (Monday 12 November) Lars Finanger is another case study showing how when you don't have a lot of available time to train, you need to be very smart and make the most with the time you have. Lars finished Ironman Texas 2017 in a sub-9:30 time, on less than 9 hours of training per week. The most surprising thing about his training is that roughly 40% of it was swimming! IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: -A big-picture overview of Lars' build to Ironman Texas -An example of a typical training week for him (which was always less than 9 hours) -Factors outside of the actual Ironman training that Lars focused on to achieve a fast time -Lars' top tips for time-crunched age-groupers and their Ironman training -Swimrun events in the US: Lars is the race director of Casco Bay Islands, Boston Harbor Islands, and San Juan Islands SHOWNOTES: https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts155/ THAT TRIATHLON SHOW HOMEPAGE: www.thattriathlonshow.com SPONSORS: Stac - The Stac Zero is the world's quietest bike trainer. No noise and no tire wear, since it doesn't even touch the tire! It is also very portable and affordable. Even more so when using the discount code TTS20 for 20% off when you buy your Stac bike trainer (any of the models). Ventum - The ultimate triathlon bikes, using technology from fighter jets and Formula One race cars. Easier to build, pack, and travel with than any other tri bike. Get 110% of the value of your old bike towards the purchase of a new Ventum bike. Use the promo code THATTRIATHLONSHOW to get a free upgrade from training wheels to Edco Aerosport Gesero 65 race wheels when you order your Ventum bike. LINKS AND RESOURCES: All previous case studies on That Triathlon Show Case Study: Sub-9 Ironman on low-volume, high-quality training with Carl Brümmer | EP#145 Case Study: 10:30 at Challenge Roth on 10 hours of training per week with Petri Karvinen | EP#150 All previous Swimrun episodes on That Triathlon Show The Nine Hour Per Week Ironman Training Experiment - Slowtwitch article Swimrun USA website (with races Casco Bay Islands, Boston Harbor Islands, and San Juan Islands) Lars' Twitter 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	We can train as much as we want or as little as we want,
0:04.1	and we will never be able to go to toe to tow with guys like that.
0:08.0	But with that said, they may not be able to go toe to toe with who they deem as their competition
0:13.3	if they don't eke out the 1% or the less than 1% marginal gains.
0:20.9	That Trafflon Show, 155.
0:36.4	Hey, what's up, everybody, and welcome back to another episode of That Traathlon Show, the podcast presented by Scientific Traathlon.com.
0:46.3	I'm your host Michael and on today's episode I interview Lars Finanger on how he prepared for Ironman, Texas and finished in around 9 hours 30 on less than 9 hours of
0:57.4	training per week. And one very interesting fact here is that his training had a heavy focus on
1:03.7	swimming and that is quite fascinating, so we'll get into that and why what he's thinking was
1:09.3	in the interview. Now I do want to say a few words here before we get into that in and why what he's thinking was in the interview. Now I do want to say a few
1:13.5	words here before we get into this because I know that some discussion might arise because
1:19.6	we've had some previous case studies as well in this same format or this with the same type of
1:27.0	athlete I should say with low volume training and still
1:30.8	great results. And it has generated discussion about is that really possible, is that
1:38.4	how much is genetics, etc. And the idea is definitely not to promote any idea that these results are available for
1:46.8	anybody on that type of training. And I definitely don't want to give the impression that
1:53.2	less training is better or anything like that. I just know that these lower volume case
1:59.9	studies are something that's applicable for
2:02.3	many age groupers because you have limited availability of time, as do I. So really it's about
2:09.0	how different athletes have tried to make the most out of the training time that they have
2:14.1	available. And then with that, the fact that these last few case studies happen to be athletes that
2:19.9	are really quite fast, that's been more of a coincidence than anything really.
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