Q&A #51 - What are the benefits of long rides? Can you get the same effects by pre-fatiguing the muscles with intensity?

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

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🗓️ 12 September 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Q&A #51 - What are the benefits of long rides? Can you get the same effects by pre-fatiguing the muscles with intensity? The three key benefits of long rides: metabolic and fat oxidation, muscle fiber recruitment patterns, and endurance signalling Can you replicate the benefits of a longer ride by doing a shorter long ride which includes e.g. one hour of tempo or Sweet Spot work to induce more fatigue early in the workout? What are the drawbacks of using this pre-fatiguing strategy? Using work done (in kJ or kcal) as the best way to compare 'equivalent durations' of workouts LINKS AND RESOURCES: That Triathlon Show website Coaching Training Plans 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 OR use the code THATTRIATHLONSHOW20 to get 20% off your entire order. 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 Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter.

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up everybody and welcome back to another episode of that triathlon show, the podcast
0:06.0	presented by scientificraathlon.com. I'm your host Michael and this episode is Q&A number 51.
0:13.7	Before we get into the question for today's episode, big thanks to our sponsors, precision hydration.
0:19.8	I will do a longer review of how I used precision
0:23.3	hydration for my most recent race, the Iron Scent.3 World Championships at the end of this
0:28.6	episode. Stay tuned for that. But for now, just to give you the quick synopsis of precision
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0:43.3	electrolyte and hydration strategy for your next race and that will give you a great ballpark estimate
0:50.5	for where you can start experimenting and take it from there because you always
0:55.0	need to keep tweaking things until you figure out what works specifically for you.
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1:09.4	And thank you to Roka.
1:10.6	As for precision hydration, i'll talk a bit longer
1:12.7	about them at the end of this episode some observations from the world champs but for now just a quick
1:19.0	synopsis again roca are world leaders in creating wetsuits trisuits swimskins and high-performance eyewear
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1:35.7	and get 20% off your entire order with the promo code TTS all caps. So to get into the question for today, I only have one question because the other
1:48.4	ones that I have in the backlog require a pretty significant amount of research and yeah,
1:54.7	I just didn't have time to have more questions than one today because of the preparation time that
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