That Traathlon Show, 159.

Hey, what's up everybody, and welcome back to another episode of That Triathlon Show, the podcast presented by Scientific Traathlon.com.

I'm your host Michael and on today's episode I interview Cyril Schmidt PhD on the topic of non-functional overreaching.

We'll get into defining that in the interview,

so I won't waste any time on that.

But it's an area that Cyril has done a lot of research on as part of his PhD.

And he's also incorporating this knowledge in the training platform,

Gautai, which he's a co-founder of.

So listen back to episode 156, where we... this knowledge in the training platform, Gutaie, which he's a co-founder of.

So listen back to episode 156, where we talked about and discussed, or actually we heard from representatives of many different training analysis and planning platforms.

Cyril was one of them.

He talked about Gutai, and so you can listen to that episode to learn more about

his training platform. This episode is all about non-functional overreaching and the science

behind that and the practical applications of course. I have a particularly great personal

interest in this topic since I have on at least two prolonged occasions this year during the summer and

the autumn been in a state of pretty severe non-functional overreaching where I really had

had reduced, greatly reduced performance. I couldn't perform at all in training or racing.

I couldn't even try racing. It was no point. So I'll talk a bit more about

my personal experience with it after the interview. So in the case anybody finds that interesting.

Before we get into the interview, a big thank you to our sponsor's stack that you can find

on stack zero.com. That's STAC0 speltout.com.

They make the words quietest indoor bike trainers.

...