How to train for a Swimrun | EP#57

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

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

4.9 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

How do you train for a swimrun? In this episode you'll get an overview of a Swimrun training plan I'm using (and the actual plan including specifics in the shownotes), and learn the main principles behind good swimrun training. IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: The swimrun training plan I use (available for download) How to execute the training in the plan with swimrun in mind Race-specificity for your goal race The technical aspects of swimrun training Why I started using stretch chords in my core routine now that I'm training for a swimrun LISTENER QUESTIONS: If you have questions that you want me to answer on the show or off the show (in an email), send me your question via email or Twitter (contact information below). NOTES: If you enjoy the show, please help me out by subscribing, rating and reviewing: www.scientifictriathlon.com/rate/ SHOWNOTES: www.thattriathlonshow.com Send feedback, questions or just wanna chat? CONTACT me at mikael@scientifictriathlon.com or connect on Twitter - my handle is @SciTriat.

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0:00.0	That Triathlon Show, episode 57.
0:06.0	Hey, what's up, everybody?
0:19.7	Welcome back to another episode of That Triathlon show, the podcast presented by Scientific Triathlon.com.
0:27.7	I'm your shivering host, Michael, which we'll talk about a bit later. Today's episode is all about
0:34.2	training for a swim run, and I just got back from my open water swim session
0:38.9	here in Helsinki on December, no sorry, September 7th. It's not quite that extreme, but still
0:47.4	it's getting pretty cold here so that's why I'm shivering. So today's episode is about the basic
0:53.9	structure of your swim run training program
0:56.4	and I'll actually talk you through the swim run program that I'm currently on preparing for
1:01.5	the inaugural Finnish national championships in swim run which is exciting. And we'll also talk about
1:08.4	things like how it's important to make the training really, really race specific and how to accomplish that specificity, how you can train your technical skills in Zoom Run and how you should also train with the equipment that you will be using on Race Day.
1:26.1	So this is a topic that has been requested by one of you listeners, most recently by
1:31.5	David Shields.
1:32.9	So thank you for that topic request.
1:35.6	And to all the listeners, remember that you can always send topic requests and also guest
1:40.5	requests for interviews to Michael at Scientific Triathlon.com.
1:45.0	And that's Michael with a.K.
1:47.8	I want to mention something really quickly regarding the upcoming podcast episodes.
1:52.8	I'm preparing for my move to Portugal and I'm very, very time crunched.
1:57.3	So there might be a few less interviews than usually and more solo episodes because
2:02.2	I don't have to take the time to schedule the interview and record the interview separately and
2:07.5	all those sorts of things. Although that being said, the amount of time I spent researching this
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