Maria Francesca Piacentini, PhD | EP#392

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

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

4.9 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Maria Francesca Piacentini, PhD, is Associate Professor at the University of Rome Foro Italico. Her research interests include overreaching and overtraining, training monitoring, and more recently, open water swimming and particularly the use of wetsuits in triathlon and open water swimming. IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: -An overview of the literature of wetsuits, and how wetsuits change performance, biomechanical, physiological and perceptual variables -Comparing wetsuit and non-wetsuit swimming at a fixed speed and using a longer protocol to assess fatiguability with and without wetsuit -Discussion points on wetsuit familiarity, when and how to use a wetsuit in training, using a trisuit underneath the wetsuit, the impact of water temperature, etc. SHOWNOTES: https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts392/ SCIENTIFIC TRIATHLON AND THAT TRIATHLON SHOW WEBPAGE: www.scientifictriathlon.com/podcast/ SPONSORS: Precision Fuel & Hydration help athletes perform at their best through their online tools, patented Sweat Test and range of electrolytes and fueling products. Use the free Fuel & Hydration Planner and receive a personalised plan for your carbohydrate, sodium and fluid intake. If you want further help, book a free 20-minute video consultation to chat through your plan. Listen out for the code in today's show to get 15% off your first order of PF&H electrolytes and fueling products. If you missed the code, just email hello@pfandh.com. FORM Smart Swim Goggles give you unprecedented real-time feedback in your swim training through a display on the goggle lens. See every split to stay on pace, track your stroke rate and don't let it drop, use heart rate to become more scientific and precise with your training (through integration with Polar HR monitors) and analyse more in-depth metrics post-swim in the app. You can also use a vast library of workouts or training plans, or build your own guided workouts. Get 15% off the goggles with the code TTS15. LINKS AND RESOURCES: Prof. Piacentini's Twitter and Research Gate profiles Wetsuit Use During Open Water Swimming. Does It “Suit” Everybody? A Narrative Review - Quagliarotti et al. 2021 The Effects of a Wetsuit on Biomechanical, Physiological, and Perceptual Variables in Experienced Triathletes - Quagliarotti et al. 2023 Sempre con le ali ai piedi. Una vita da campione olimpico - Stefano Baldini's autobiography Il guardiano della collina dei ciliegi - book by Franco Faggiani (about Japanese marathon runner Shizo Kanakuri) 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 Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter.

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0:00.0	The Traathlon Show, 392.
0:17.8	Hey, what's up everybody and welcome back to another episode of That Triathlon Show, the podcast
0:23.6	presented by Scientific Triathlon.com. I'm our host Michael, and on today's episode, I interview
0:29.0	Professor Maria Francesca Piacentini from the University of Rome, Foro Italico. We discuss the science
0:35.1	of wetsuit swimming, which, to be honest, there isn't a whole lot of, but Maria Francesca and her team have relatively recently started working in this area and published a literature review and a study in a group of elite triathletes to get started down the path of better understanding exactly how a wetsuit impacts the performance, biomechanics and the physiology of swimming in a
0:56.6	wetsuit compared to non-wetsuit conditions. There are still a lot of unknowns, but in this
1:00.7	interview we discuss what is known today from a scientific perspective, and then we have a
1:05.7	discussion on some potential practical applications. But before we get into the interview,
1:10.7	big thanks to our sponsors, precision fuel and hydration.
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1:17.0	online tools, education and a patented sweat test.
1:20.0	You can use the free fuel and hydration planner on their website to get a personalized plan
1:23.9	for your carbohydrate, sodium and fluid intake.
1:26.4	And you can also book a free 20
1:27.8	minute video consultation to chat through your plan with the athlete support team, something I
1:32.0	recently did for my hydration in particular, which I had some struggles with, to be honest,
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1:53.9	real-time feedback in your swim training right on the goggle lens including splits, pace, stroke
1:59.0	rate and heart rate. This means that you can execute your
2:01.7	swim workouts so much better, whether it's about pushing harder when you're starting to fall
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