How To Maximize Triathlon Success With Minimal Training Time

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Ben Greenfield

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🗓️ 15 September 2012

⏱️ 36 minutes

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In today's audio episode, you're going to learn the best way to implement a "triathlon training minimal time" approach, in a insider interview with Ironman champion Sami Inkinen, who trains just 8-12 hours per week. Sami is just coming off an amateur Ironman winning time of 8:24 at Ironman Sweden, and last year, his finishes [...]

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0:00.0	Hey folks, it's Ben Greenfield and today we are going to be talking about how to maximize
0:09.5	your triathlon success with minimal training time and whether or not you're into triathlons
0:15.7	you're probably going to get a lot out of this interview in terms of learning how to
0:20.9	choose workouts and a way to exercise that's going to allow you to get the most bang for
0:26.1	your buck and not waste a lot of time with your training.
0:29.9	The person who we're going to be talking to today is certainly someone who has shown
0:34.9	that you can do very, very well when it comes especially to triathlon with the kind
0:41.7	of quality over quantity type of training approach.
0:45.3	Sami Inkonen is with us today and Sami was the overall age-grouper champion at the
0:51.7	wildflower long course triathlon last year which for any of you who know about triathlon
0:58.2	here in the U.S. know that to be not only one of the more competitive but also one of
1:03.1	the tougher courses really in the world when it comes to triathlon.
1:07.4	He was the overall age-grouper champion also at the Ironman 70.3 Hawaii.
1:12.8	At the Ironman World Championship 70.3 race in Las Vegas last year he was the age-group
1:19.8	world champion for the highly competitive 35 to 39 year old age group and he also raced
1:26.9	and I believe it's raced multiple times in Kona but he was second in that age group in
1:32.9	Kona and raced an 858 at Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii and Sami is also
1:45.7	a extremely active, basically he's involved with a hectic work schedule but he was involved
1:56.4	with the company Trulia down in San Francisco, a San Francisco-based real estate search company.
2:03.1	He stays very busy with his work life and really needs to train minimally but is able
2:10.3	to put out these fantastic performances despite his busy work schedule and the fact that
2:14.9	he's a successful CEO.
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