Science to Practice | EP#109

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

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

4.9 • 597 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

How do you apply endurance sports science in practice? Learn the complete process from knowing the balance between evidence-based and experience-based, interpreting and contextualising research, recognising poor research and interpretations, to applying it to improve your triathlon performance. IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: The three-legged stool: scientific evidence, coach's experience, athlete's desire and experience. Don't proclaim yourself "evidence-based" and disregard experience (yours or others') for the sake of it Interpreting research studies, understanding different study designs and terminology, like statistical significance and effect size Statistically significant does not equal the absolute truth - research results is the observation of what happened, not the prediction of what will happen in the future. The importance of context (demographic, environmental, athletic ability, etc.) The importance of humility - don't be so quick to criticize. A great training plan is based on improving the individual athlete's performance, not on pegging them into the hole of the average research subject response. If you're not measuring you're not managing. SHOWNOTES: https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts104/ THAT TRIATHLON SHOW HOMEPAGE: www.thattriathlonshow.com 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 THATTRIATHLONSHOW and get your first box for free! Triathlon Corner - The new online home of shopping the best triathlon products in the world to great prices. Ships worldwide. Brands include Garmin, Stages Power, Café du cycliste, Zipp, Mako, Zone3, Hoka One One to name just a few. Use the discount codeTHATTRIATHLONSHOW to get 10% off. LINKS AND RESOURCES: The Enemy of a Good Plan is the Dream of a Perfect Plan with Dean Golich | EP#104 "Should your hydration strategy change as you get older?" - Article by Andy on Precision Hydration RATE AND REVIEW:If you enjoy the show, please help me out by subscribing, rating and reviewing: www.scientifictriathlon.com/rate/ CONTACT: Want to send feedback, questions or just chat? Email me at mikael@scientifictriathlon.com or connect on Twitter - my handle is @SciTriat.

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0:00.0	The three legs of it are the science, the scientific evidence, the coaches' experience, and the athletes' experience and also the athlete's desire.
0:12.2	That Traflon's Show, episode 109. Hey, what's up everybody and welcome back to another episode of that triathlon show, the podcast presented by scientific triathlon.com.
0:37.3	I'm your host, Michael, and today's episode is a solo episode where I will teach you how to use sports science and how to apply it in practice.
0:47.3	So I will talk about interpreting research, what you should be looking for, how to recognize bad research, and most importantly, talk about
0:56.6	the fact that it most certainly is only one part of the puzzle, and there are other very, very big
1:04.0	parts that come in that are not necessarily research or science-based when it comes to planning
1:09.2	your training and your triathlon performance
1:12.0	in general. So we'll talk a lot about how to do that and how to find strike the right balance.
1:19.8	And definitely you should not be doing what some might do and use the, in my opinion, very overused phrase evidence based as a shield.
1:31.0	That's a big no-no.
1:33.3	But first, let's thank our sponsors.
1:36.3	This episode is sponsored by precision hydration.
1:39.8	Andy Blow, who was on episode 49, is the founder of the company.
1:43.6	And he recently wrote a great
1:46.1	blog post on whether your hydration strategy needs to change as you get older, so that's
1:51.7	interesting for all the master's athletes out there. And in a nutshell, free factors suggest that
1:58.3	older athletes need to be more diligent with their hydration than youngsters.
2:03.8	Because the margin for error is reduced and the risk of dehydration is increased for this demographic.
2:11.4	The reasons being that you have less water on board to start with, so this increases the risk of dehydration you
2:18.9	also tend to lose more water through your urine so dehydration is again
2:23.8	increased or the risk of dehydration I should say and finally your sensation of
2:29.2	first is actually diminished this is something that I talked about way back in
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