Revisiting Body Weight, Performance, and Triathlon
The TriDot Triathlon Podcast
TriDot Triathlon Training
4.9 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode tackles a "weighty" topic: a triathlete's relationship with their body weight. How do you know what weight is optimal for you? Is leaner better? Is there an ideal “race weight” you should strive for? Should you measure body fat percentage and know your BMI in addition to information from a standard scale? Dr. Krista Austin and Advanced Sports Dietician Taryn Richardson answer these questions and more! Krista and Taryn help you identify areas of improvement by discussing weight from a health and performance perspective.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The TryDOT Podcast. This is a revisiting show. If you don't know what a revisiting |
| 0:07.8 | episode is, it's when we revisit an old episode of the TryDot podcast. It's basically our version |
| 0:14.0 | of a rerun. But I like to call these a rerun with a purpose. We have 340-something episodes of the Try-Dot podcast now, and there are some |
| 0:23.7 | really good ones that came out three years ago, four years ago, five years ago. So I kind of have |
| 0:29.8 | my own personal list of episodes that I feel are just extra valuable, extra meaningful. And once |
| 0:35.8 | and a while, a couple times a year, we do a revisiting where I |
| 0:39.4 | go to my list and I pull an episode I really like and I bring it back to the surface. If you're a |
| 0:44.6 | long-time listener, you haven't heard this one in a while. So I hope you will learn from it all |
| 0:49.6 | over again. If you're a newer listener, chances are you never caught this one in the first place. |
| 0:54.4 | But man, I really liked this one. |
| 0:56.1 | This episode actually is episode 154 of the TryDop podcast. |
| 1:00.9 | It was called Bodyweight, Performance, and Triathlon. |
| 1:04.3 | To this day, it is still in our top 10 most listened to episodes of all time. |
| 1:09.6 | Really shows me how much our audience values this topic. |
| 1:13.2 | And Dr. Krista Austin and advanced sports dietitian Terran Richardson just talk to us about |
| 1:18.6 | how much should we weigh to perform well on the race course. What are signs we should lose |
| 1:24.6 | some weight? What are some signs we might benefit from gaining some weight? |
| 1:28.2 | Doesn't matter. |
| 1:29.3 | Who does it matter for really all that and more with Dr. Austin and Terran? |
| 1:34.5 | So buckle up. |
| 1:35.2 | I hope you enjoy this one all over again. |
| 1:37.1 | I can't wait to take some notes myself. |
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