Hey, what's up everybody and welcome back to that triathlon show, the podcast presented by

Scientific Triathlon.com. I'm your host Michael and this episode is Q&A number 43 and it is my great

pleasure to once again have done a Q&A episode co-hosted with scientific triathlon coach James Teagle.

We have two really good, really interesting questions that we'll go into today,

first on weight management and weight gain during Iron Man training and what it might be related

to and also about swim training and the amount of intensity in traditional swim training

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