Level up your triathlon using Training Peaks | EP#39

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

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

4.9 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Tracking and monitoring data is one thing. Using the data to drive your decisions about how to train and race is a different story. Knowing how to filter and decipher all the information that you have can be difficult and confusing. Training Peaks is the best tool to use for any triathlete using a data-driven training approach, and today we'll cover how to use it effectively. IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN: -Which metrics and data to focus on -How to know exactly when you need to push or back off your training -How to measure track your aerobic base and muscular endurance -How to plan your taper and define your ideal taper down to a single number -How to reverse engineer your key workouts based on Training Stress Score 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 Traathlon Show, Episode 39.
0:05.0	Hello everybody and welcome back to That triathlon show, the podcast presented by
0:22.2	Scientific Triathlon.com. As always, I'm your host Michael and today's episode is going to be about
0:30.5	how to level up your triathlon training by using training peaks and data-driven training
0:36.4	within training peaks.
0:38.3	So you're probably using a watch, like a multi-sport watch, a Garmin or Polar or Sounto,
0:44.7	to track your training data.
0:46.8	I think that most triathletes these days do.
0:49.5	At least that's what I see here in Finland when I'm out training and seeing other triathletes being out
0:55.0	training. But the question is, are you actually using that data and benefiting from it?
1:01.9	And I think that for most the answer is probably not. And I've had many discussions in email
1:08.5	discussions with listeners of the show and readers of the
1:11.1	scientific triathlon blog about this topic and also the athletes that I coached have had
1:18.5	questions about training peaks and what I look at specifically within training peaks
1:23.4	to make informed decisions about how to plan their training and racing.
1:30.6	So I thought that it's about time that I make a podcast episode about this topic as well
1:35.4	because let's face it, both as an athlete and a coach training peaks is, I'd say my number
1:41.6	one tool, except for the watch itself, of course, which is necessary to use
1:45.9	training peaks. But other than that, training picks is the one go-to resource that I rely on very
1:52.0	much in my own training and in my coaching as well. So what you'll learn about in today's
1:58.3	episode is how you can use training peaks to actually use the data that
2:03.2	you get from your multi-sport watches and how you can use the data to drive your decisions about
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