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That Triathlon Show

Q&A #27 - Cramping (with expert guest Andy Blow), what CTL is required to get to Kona and a little rant...

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

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

4.9596 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Q&A #27 - Cramping (with expert guest Andy Blow), what CTL is required to get to Kona and a little rant...   How do you solve cramping issues when you've tried everything, with expert guest Andy Blow Is there any particular Chronic Training Load (CTL) number you should shoot for if you want to qualify for Kona?  A rant about over-reliance on arbitrary metrics like TSS and how it causes athletes to forget the meaning of training: adaptations and performance   LINKS AND RESOURCES:   That Triathlon Show website  Coaching Training Plans Hydration, sodium and cramping with Andy Blow | EP#49 Effective Swimrun Training with Andy Blow | EP#126 Kona qualification: what it takes (in hard numbers) with Russell Cox | EP#76 Precision Hydration blog     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 TTS.   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 THATTRIATHLONSHOW and get your first box for free!      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

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Scientific Triathlon.com.

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I'm your host Michael and this episode is Q&A number 27.

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As always, any questions that you have that you want answered?

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Send them on Michael at ScientificTraathlon.com or through the Facebook

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Messenger widget on scientific triathlon.com. I'll add them to the queue and answer them on a future

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Q&A episode that comes out every first day. This episode is sponsored by Roka, that are the world

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leaders in wetsuits, trisuits and

0:38.4

other triathlon and swim apparel. They started out as a mission to simply make the

0:43.4

world's fastest wetsuit. And it's a young company that has seen a very fast rise to the top

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in the triathlon market initially, but now also in the, for example, performance Iver category,

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which they are also becoming one of the most established and definitely most exciting players in.

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An example of how quickly Roka has started to dominate and shown how fast their products are

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is the swimskin count at

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at the Ironman World Championships where Roka every year they conduct a swimskin count

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of all the different brands on the professional athletes and they have been winning for

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the last three or four years I think it was when i when we talked about

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this uh with the roca team and uh this is of course most of these years it has been roca's internal

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count but one year there was an official swimskin count and uh that also had the exact same same

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count as roca of course it's not that difficult at the end of the day to count different swimskin brands.

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So, yeah, Roka has been taking charge of that swimskin market in Kona.

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And similarly, if you go to Iron Man events and you start to count wetsuits,

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