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That Triathlon Show

Open water swim training with Olympic gold medal coach Marcel Wouda | EP#246

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

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

4.9596 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Marcel Wouda is a swim and open water swimming coach from the Netherlands, who has coached and worked with multiple Olympic gold medalists, including the 2008 and 2016 (men's and women's) Olympic open water champions Maarten van der Weijden, Ferry Weertman, and Sharon van Rouwendaal.    IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: -Marcel's open water swim coaching philosophy -The specific demands of open water swim races, and training to meet those demands -Example training weeks and key workouts for open water swimmers -Periodisation -Performance testing -Dryland training -Swim toys, gadgets and technology -Advice for triathletes on improving their open water swimming   SHOWNOTES: https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts246/   SCIENTIFIC TRIATHLON AND THAT TRIATHLON SHOW WEBPAGE: www.scientifictriathlon.com/podcast   SPONSORS: Precision Hydration - One-size doesn't fit all when it comes to hydration. Take Precision Hydration's FREE sweat test and learn how you should hydrate. Use the discount code THATTRIATHLONSHOW15 to get 15% off your order OR use the code THATTRIATHLONSHOW and get your first box for free.   ROKA - The finest triathlon wetsuits, apparel, equipment, and eyewear on the planet. Trusted by Javier Gómez, Gwen Jorgensen, Flora Duffy, Mario Mola, Lucy Charles and others. Visit roka.com/tts for 20% off your order.   LINKS AND RESOURCES: Marcel's Instagram and Twitter Open water swimming: training and racing tips with coach Brenton Ford | EP#18 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, 246.

0:17.9

Hey, what's up, everybody, and welcome back to another episode of that triathlon show, the podcast

0:24.0

presented by Scientific Traathlon.com.

0:27.4

I'm our host Michael, and on today's episode, I interview Marcel Vuda, who is a swim and

0:32.3

and open water swimming coach from the Netherlands, who has coached and worked with multiple

0:37.0

Olympic gold medalists,

0:38.7

including the men's gold medalist from Beijing 2008 and both the men's and women's Olympic champions

0:45.2

from Rio de Janeiro 2016. We will discuss the training strategies that Marcel uses to prepare

0:51.7

his open water swimmers for the demands of that specific type of racing

0:55.2

and he also gives us some advice for regular triathletes who obviously cannot and shouldn't

1:01.7

just try to copy what these world-class pure swimmers do but we will get some advice for

1:09.0

our specific situation as well but But before we get into the

1:12.4

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1:34.0

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1:48.6

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2:04.1

And thank you to Roka that you can find on Roka.com.

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