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Taren's MōTTIV Method Podcast

Perfecting Your Training with PhD Candidate Jimmy Kennedy

Taren's MōTTIV Method Podcast

Taren Gesell

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

4.7843 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Jimmy Kennedy is a PhD Candidate and a Senior Scientist at InsideTracker.  On the podcast we talk about identifying overtraining in endurance athletes, and what can be done about it. He also talks about some of the biggest things triathletes need to be aware of that are going on in their bodies.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today's podcast is a good one with Jimmy Kennedy.

0:03.3

Senior scientist for InsideTracker. Inside Tracker, Segway, is a sponsor of this podcast.

0:11.5

Now, if you go to Inside Tracker and you wanted to get anything and get a deal on anything,

0:18.3

you can get 25% off any of their tests with a free inner age 2.0 test

0:25.6

with the coupon code triathlon taren.

0:27.7

Now, what is InsideTracker?

0:28.9

Inside Tracker is a blood testing company where you can get your private blood tested.

0:34.8

You don't have to go to a doctor to get a requisition for any of this,

0:39.2

which I know is a little bit iffy, depending on what country you are. Inside Tracker allows you to do

0:44.7

this all on your own. And personally, I work with Inside Tracker a couple times a year to make sure

0:49.8

that my blood biomarkers are trending in the right direction. It's a good way to look under the hood, which is really important for triathletes, all

0:58.0

endurance athletes as a matter of fact, because, as we will talk about later in this podcast,

1:02.8

just because you feel okay or even if maybe you're feeling just a little bit iffy,

1:07.8

you should know what your blood numbers say because that'll give you a really good indication

1:12.3

of exactly where your body is at and what you need as in do you need some rest? Can you keep going

1:18.1

at the level you're going? It's really important stuff to know and now people have access to it

1:22.5

super easily with Inside Tracker. Yeah, I'll say more important than anything is understanding and

1:27.3

being aware of

1:28.3

how you feel day to day and being honest with yourself. Don't say every day, well, I kind of feel like a

1:33.7

seven out of ten because you don't want to say you feel like a four or you don't know if you feel like an

1:39.3

eight. It's subjective. It's hard. Yeah, be honest with yourself every single day. But as I get back into racing and racing comes back, I'm going to be doing tests at the beginning of the year around spring to know essentially how, yeah, baseline. How well am I prepared for the season? And then at the end of a season, how much damage did this do? And in a lot of cases, like,

2:02.3

we do a lot of damage to ourselves during the race season. So that spring and fall tests are what

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