Swimming In The Right Training Zones
The TriDot Triathlon Podcast
TriDot Triathlon Training
4.9 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Understanding how to stay in your training zones is key to smarter run workouts. In this episode, we break down everything you need to know about zones and how to use them effectively. Coaches Brandy Ramirez and Matt Davies explain how TriDot determines swim zones, which gadgets and metrics best help you monitor them, and how to consistently stay in the right zone during your workouts. They also share strategies for hitting your targets across different pool lengths and even open water. However your next workout is structured, this episode will equip you with practical tips to maximize your swim training and execution.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Triedop podcast. |
| 0:03.9 | This is episode three in a series we've been doing where we've had coaches come on and try to help us. |
| 0:10.1 | Stay in our training zones when we're training. |
| 0:13.1 | A few weeks ago, we learned how to do this in our run workouts. |
| 0:16.4 | And last week, we learned how to do this in our bike workouts. |
| 0:18.9 | This week, we have Coach Brandy Ramirez, the Triedop Pool School Director and coach Matt Davies from Precision Coaching here to help us stay in the right zones in our swim training. Coach Matt, Coach Brandy, good to see you two. How are you? It's good to be here. Thanks for having us. Yeah, really, really good. I'm really pleased to be back on the pod as well, mate. So, yeah, can't wait for today. I want to give you, Coach Matt, in particular, a shout out. You is 2.30 in the morning there in Bali, where you're recording with us. So thanks for staying up past your bedtime to teach us a few things today. |
| 0:55.5 | I'm Andrew the average triathlete, voice of the people, and captain in the middle of the pack. |
| 0:59.4 | As always, we're going to start off with our warm-up question, settle in for our |
| 1:02.8 | mindset conversation and then wind things down by asking our coaches a question from the audience |
| 1:07.7 | on the cool down. Lots of good stuff. Let's get to it. |
| 1:11.5 | This is the TriDOT podcast, the triathlon show that brings you world-class coaching with every conversation. |
| 1:19.6 | Let's get started with today's warm-up. |
| 1:23.7 | Coach Matt, Coach Brandy, for our warm-up question today, I want to know what was a time you accidentally lost or damaged a piece of your triathlon equipment? |
| 1:37.8 | Coach Matt, what is this answer for you? |
| 1:41.1 | So I really had to scratch my head on this one. |
| 1:43.9 | Normally I'm pretty good. |
| 1:45.6 | But the one thing that always gets me, and I forget it wherever I go, and I do travel an awful lot around the world, is the charger cable for my Garmin watch. |
| 1:56.3 | I am absolutely terrible at remembering it. |
| 1:59.2 | I've left it in more countries that people have visited. |
| 2:03.3 | So, yeah, no matter where I go, I always get there and realize that I don't have my charging |
| 2:08.4 | cable for the watch. So do you buy a new one? Do you borrow from somebody local that you know? |
| 2:14.8 | Or what's the, what's the solution when you do this? |
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