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Taren's MōTTIV Method Podcast

How to Use Blood Testing to Guide Your Triathlon Nutrition

Taren's MōTTIV Method Podcast

Taren Gesell

Podcast, Triathlon, Ironman, Health & Fitness, Training, Gesell, Triathletes, Sports, Taren

4.7843 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Ashley Reaver is a registered dietitian, nutritionist and lecturer at the University of California, Berkley. She's also the Lead Nutrition Scientist at Inside Tracker.  We talk to her today about how triathletes can use blood testing to guide their triathlon nutrition and training, to understand what's going on under the hood, which can help improve performance.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today's podcast is brought to you by two of our favorite sponsors ever. The first one is

0:04.8

Garmin. Now there is no go to garmin.com forward slash Terran, but there is a killer

0:10.7

Garmin watch deal out there. $50 off a Garmin 245. Now the 245 is... Is that the one I'm using?

0:20.0

That's the one you're using.

0:21.1

Hey.

0:21.7

This is what they've told me is their best entry-level watch that satisfies swim-bike run.

0:28.1

It doesn't satisfy triathlon swim-bike run altogether, but it's a multi-sport watch so you can do all different sports.

0:35.3

But if you don't need that actual triathlon function, that sole

0:40.0

triathlon function, the Garmin 245 is great. That's what you've been using. Yes, it's the first time I've

0:45.3

had an actual like professional kind of watch. And there was a bit of a learning curve for me because

0:50.5

I'm not very bright, a lot of buttons, but I've gotten the hang of it. And it's so cool.

0:54.8

I mean, now you've made me obsessed with my dad.

0:56.8

Even when I walk the dogs, I'm like, oh, what was my pace?

0:59.0

You are more obsessed with your heart rate, your average heart rate, your average pace,

1:03.8

how fast you went than I have ever been.

1:06.6

Oh, no, but it's so cool. Like I, I mean, this is information I've never had in my life, right? So to get to just, you let it sync up with the app on my phone and I can just open it up and it shows me everything that happened.

1:17.8

Like even on that one hour brisk dog walk. I mean, that's really cool for me.

1:21.4

This is what data is. around the world, all of the Garmin websites around the world have an offer where roughly the equivalent of $50 US is off of the Garmin 245.

1:38.0

So if you want to get this for Christmas maybe, that's kind of the idea behind this. That for the holidays,

1:45.2

you can get Garmin 245 for $50 US off whatever it is. So I looked at it and the offer

1:52.7

works in Canada. It's just instead of $50 US, it's like 73 Canadian. Because of the exchange.

1:58.9

Yeah. Yeah. So get because math. Get someone who you love the gift of exchange, yeah. Yeah. So get, because math.

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