Q&A #23 - Maintaining race fitness for an entire race season and the mental battle of FTP-tests

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

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

4.9 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Q&A #23 - Maintaining race fitness for an entire race season and the mental battle of FTP-tests How do you keep a high race fitness for an entire season with multiple sprint and Olympic distance triathlons spread out over a period of time? Should you train differently for the sprint races compared to the Olympic distance races? What's the right mindset to have in FTP-tests (or other benchmarking tests) to get the most out of yourself and avoid performance anxiety? LINKS AND RESOURCES: That Triathlon Show website Coaching Training Plans Tapering and peaking in triathlon: the art and the science | EP#119 Mikael's interview on Humans of Triathlon SPONSORS: ROKA - The finest triathlon wetsuits, apparel, equipment, and performance eyewear on the planet. Trusted by Javier Gómez, Gwen Jorgensen, Flora Duffy, Mario Mola, Lucy Charles and others. Get 20% off your entire order with the discount code THATTRIATHLONSHOW. RATE AND REVIEW: If you enjoy the show, please help me out by subscribing, rating and reviewing. CONTACT: Want to send feedback, questions or just chat? Email me at mikael@scientifictriathlon.com or connect on Twitter - my handle is @SciTriat.

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up everybody and welcome back to that triathlon show, the podcast presented by
0:06.8	ScientificTraflon.com.
0:09.1	I'm your host Michael and this episode is Q&A number 23.
0:13.7	Remember as always that if you have questions that you want me to answer on the podcast,
0:17.4	send them to Michael at ScientificTraflon.com or send them through the facebook messenger
0:21.7	widget on scientific triathlon.com. Before we get into today's questions, a big thanks to
0:28.7	Roka for sponsoring this episode. Roka are the world leaders in wetsuits, trisuits and other triathlon
0:36.0	and swim apparel. But today I want to point out that they are
0:39.9	really a leader in the market of performance eyewear as well, which is something that I think a lot of
0:44.8	people don't really think about and don't know Roka as much for as they do for wetsuits, for
0:51.6	example. But the performance eyewear line of roca is really really stand
0:56.7	out their sunglasses never fall off your face they have patented geico fit technology to make sure of
1:03.7	that so even if you stand and you try to as much as you can shake them off they they will stay on
1:09.8	your face it's really quite fun to show
1:12.5	off like that. Naturally, the optical quality is superb. Roca has their own C3 advanced optics technology
1:22.1	that makes sure of that. And above all, all of their sunglasses are extremely comfortable. I keep forgetting
1:29.7	that I wear them whether we're talking about their advanced performance sunglasses for
1:34.8	cycling and triathlon or the aviators that I use in training sometimes, but more so in the casual
1:41.9	day-to-day streetwear. In the US, Roka also has home try-on options available for all performance eyewear, and they
1:51.0	also have prescription glasses with all the same things that we just talked about, like lightweight,
1:56.0	no pressure points and won't fall off your face.
1:59.0	So plenty of options to choose from when it comes to
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