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That Triathlon Show

Heat, humidity, wind, and slush drinks: cool down your body to go harder for longer with Andrew Buckrell |160

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

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

4.9596 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Buckrell, co-founder of STAC, discusses heat. Our bodies do a great amount of work to get rid of excess heat generated when training, and strategies for maximising the body's ability to get rid of heat, and minimising heat build-up in the first place, are critical for optimal endurance performance.   IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: -How much heat does our bodies generate in triathlon and how does that impact performance. -The effect of ambient temperature -The effect of speed and air flow -The effect of sweating and humidity -Strategies for minimising or reducing heat buildup in racing -Strategies for minimising or reducing heat buildup in training -What's the deal with slush drinks?   SHOWNOTES: https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts160/   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 THATTRIATHLONSHOW for 20% off when you buy your Stac bike trainer (any of the models).     LINKS AND RESOURCES: Virtual Wind Tunnel with Andrew Buckrell and Michael Liberzon | EP#47 Heat adaptation and triathlon performance with Stephen Cheung | EP#138 Training Plans     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

If we look at space heaters, for example, like a household space heater, they're often 1,500 to 1,500 watts.

0:06.7

And knowing how quickly they can heat up a room, it gives you some perspective for the amount of heat that you're actually generating as an athlete.

0:13.6

So when you're cycling, you need to be able to get rid of all this heat very effectively.

0:21.3

The Trafalon show, 160.

0:36.6

Hey, what's up, everybody, and welcome back to another episode of That Triathlon Show, the podcast presented by Scientific Traathlon.com.

0:46.5

I'm your host Michael and on today's episode I interview Andrew Buckroll, co-founder of Stack, who as you know are great friends of the show and currently

0:55.7

a sponsor as well.

0:58.6

So Andrew, I'm super grateful to have got to know him over the last more than a year, I think.

1:05.2

Now, Andrew might remind me when we first got connected.

1:09.4

But anyway, he is super nice and he's super smart as evident from

1:13.7

how innovative stacks bike trainers are not to mention the virtual wind tunnel technology

1:19.7

that stack also provides which you can check out in episode 47 when i interviewed andrew

1:26.7

the last time but as we get into a bit in the

1:29.8

interview, he's now already looking ahead into the next area where he believes and makes some

1:35.8

great arguments for why the next big endurance breakthroughs might come from. And that is heat.

1:42.6

And specifically how to deal with and how to get rid of excess heat

1:48.2

because at a certain point once our machines our bodies run too hot it will inevitably force us to

1:55.3

slow down so so learning how to deal with this and and have making plans for how to minimize this heat buildup that is critical.

2:04.7

And that's what we'll get into today.

2:07.1

So Stack is the sponsor of today's episode.

2:10.5

And Andrew, as I said, is Stack's co-founder.

2:13.2

You can find Stack on StackZero.com.

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