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That Triathlon Show

Q&A #76 - Recovery and age; Planning training in unpredictable circumstances; How to know if you're doing enough training

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

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

4.9596 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Q&A #76 - Recovery and age; Planning training in unpredictable circumstances; How to know if you're doing enough training How should recovery be planned into training, and how does age affect this?  If how you will feel on a day to day basis is very unpredictable, how should you plan your training? Or should you simply train based on how you feel on that day?  How can you know whether you're doing enough training to improve?    LINKS AND RESOURCES: That Triathlon Show website  Coaching Training Plans   SPONSORS: 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 THATTRIATHLONSHOW15 to get 15% off your order OR use the code THATTRIATHLONSHOW and get your first box for free.   ROKA - The finest triathlon wetsuits, apparel, equipment, and eyewear on the planet. Trusted by Javier Gómez, Gwen Jorgensen, Flora Duffy, Mario Mola, Lucy Charles and others. Visit roka.com/tts for 20% off your 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 that triathlon show, the podcast presented by

0:06.0

Scientific Traathlon.com. I'm your host Michael and this episode is Q&A number 76. Before we start

0:14.5

with the questions, I do have a house cleaning item that I want to cover and that is that we just

0:20.1

recently updated the Scientific triathlon.com

0:23.4

website so you'll find the same information as before but updated hopefully a lot clearer

0:29.4

a lot cleaner better presented so check it out if you're interested we're still working on it

0:35.8

so it's work in progress but some of the main

0:38.8

pages have been updated and well then we have a ton of old pages that have not been updated

0:44.2

but the most popular pages on the website which are the home page or the front page and the podcast

0:50.3

and coaching and training plans pages they have been updated so far and then we'll be working on introducing the other new pages

0:58.8

as well over time.

1:01.2

A big thanks to our sponsors as well before starting with today's questions.

1:05.1

First, we have precision hydration that you can find on precision hydration.com.

1:10.3

Precision hydration make electlight products to help you replace the sodium that you lose

1:16.2

through sweating and in particular in hotter and longer races.

1:20.4

This can be an absolutely critical aspect of your endurance performance, whether it's about

1:26.1

competing or completing.

1:28.7

Everybody loses sodium at an individual rate, which depends on your sweat rate,

1:33.9

but also on your sweat sodium concentration, which is highly variable.

1:38.7

So precision hydration has created a sweat test they can take on their website.

1:43.0

Just click the tab free hydration plan

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to find out what your estimated sweat sodium or sodium losses will be so that you can

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