What's up Trainiacs? This is Triathlon Taryn. This is no triathlon Kim, also known as NTK.

In my 20s, I was 215 pounds and I was unhappy working the desk job I was at. Now I'm a 941 Ironman athlete who, with your much appreciated attention, gets to make a living in the sport that I love.

Through this podcast and our ever popular YouTube channel, we bring you triathlon stories, science,

and training from amazing people around the world to help you get to your start lines confident

and your finish lines strong.

And as the resident non-triathlete, I try to keep this show fun and accessible for everybody.

Let's do it.

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Fun fact.

This time of year, we start adding in a fair, a little bit of spice, a little bit of intensity

in the workouts.

And we're getting tagged quite a bit on Instagram from people that are nearly tossing their cookies on the bike.

That's something to be proud of?

Thanks for the workout, coach.

Well, if anyone out there is not on Team Trainiac, I'm kind of wondering.

And wants to toss their cookies.

Wants to toss your cookies. Yeah, you can come onto Team Trainiac and kind of wondering and wants to toss their cookies.

Wants to toss your cookies. Yeah, you can come on to Team Trainiac or just in general, a tip that I will give is in the off season, in the base building season, we're talking from typically October to January,

what we do on Team Trainiac and what the science supports and the studies show and what tends to work best

is doing a lot of low intensity training and then as February, March, April start coming in,

you start introducing that intensity and because you've got that nice big base of low intensity

work, it's like that, That really intense stuff, it gets absorbed

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