Q&A #61 - Training maintenance during 15-hour day work weeks; Acceptable fitness decreases from a season break and rate of rebuilding fitness
That Triathlon Show
Mikael Eriksson
4.9 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's up everybody and welcome back to That Traathlon Show, the podcast presented by |
| 0:05.7 | Scientific Traathlon.com. I'm your host Michael and this episode is Q&A number 61. Before we get |
| 0:13.0 | in today's questions, big thanks as usual to our sponsors. First, we have precision hydration |
| 0:17.9 | that you can find on precision hydration.com. |
| 0:21.4 | If you are like me located in the northern hemisphere, and I am right now actually spending |
| 0:26.3 | three months back in Finland. |
| 0:28.9 | So I will definitely not see the road from the top of my bike until the very end of January |
| 0:34.7 | when I go back to Lisbon. |
| 0:39.5 | Indoor training is the name of the game now, |
| 0:43.9 | and I am a very heavy sweater and a very salty sweater as well. |
| 0:52.1 | This means that I do need to think about how I can retain performance, especially in long and hard workouts. |
| 0:59.0 | And for me, precision hydration is very important because I otherwise will lose too much electrolytes in my sweat. |
| 0:59.8 | And I do notice a decline in performance when I do not make sure that in addition to the fluid |
| 1:04.6 | losses, I also think about my electrolyte losses. |
| 1:08.7 | The way that I have made sure that I can retain the performance is that I |
| 1:13.7 | took precision hydration's free online sweats test. It is on their website under the tab Free Hydration |
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| 1:29.0 | and that gives you all the information that you need to get a good ballpark estimate for how |
| 1:34.2 | much sodium and electrolytes you lose in your sweat and need to replace importantly in your |
| 1:40.7 | races but also potentially in training like for myself so check that out and if you want to try |
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