Tackling TriDot Workouts: 30-30s, 30-90s, Power Builders, Power Intervals, & Stamina
The TriDot Triathlon Podcast
TriDot Triathlon Training
4.9 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Do you ever wonder why you're doing a certain workout, not just how? This week Coach Matt Sommer joins the podcast to break down some of the most effective bike workouts to help you train smarter, not just harder. We are tackling short and hard bike sessions: 30-30s, 30-90s, Power Builders, Power Intervals, stamina, and more! Coach Matt explains the purpose behind each workout, what systems of the body they target, and how to execute them for maximum benefit. Whether you're aiming to finish the workout or are hunting for the elusive "unicorn," understanding the why behind your TriDot workout might be the edge you've been missing.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to the Tridot podcast. We are in a series of episodes where we're |
| 0:06.8 | breaking down all of the different workouts and athlete we'll see in Tridot and having a coach |
| 0:12.3 | explain the workout a little bit deeper. What is this workout doing for our fitness and how |
| 0:18.1 | do we do each of these workouts to the best of our ability. |
| 0:21.7 | Today I am joined by Coach Matt Summer, who works as the fitness director at Allamance Country Club |
| 0:26.7 | and has a master's degree in exercise physiology. Coach Matt and I will be talking about five |
| 0:33.2 | specific tri-dop bike workouts. We're going to cover 30-30s, 30-90s, power intervals, power builders, and those sweet, sweet |
| 0:42.3 | stamina bike sessions. |
| 0:44.1 | I'm Andrew the average triathlet, voice of the people in Captain of the middle of the pack. |
| 0:48.5 | We treat the show like any good workout. |
| 0:50.1 | We'll start with a warm-up question, settle into our mindset conversation, and then wind |
| 0:54.1 | things down by having Coach Matt answer an audience question on the cooldown. |
| 0:58.6 | Lots of good stuff. Let's get to it. |
| 1:01.9 | This is the Tridot podcast, the triathlon show that brings you world-class coaching with every conversation. |
| 1:10.0 | Let's get started with today's warm-up. |
| 1:13.5 | All right, Coach Matt Summer, so excited to have you on this episode to help us learn more about |
| 1:18.6 | these five bike sessions. |
| 1:20.8 | But let's start off with our warm-up question. |
| 1:24.6 | And what I want to know today, Matt, is of all the races you've done, there's a lot |
| 1:30.3 | of races you've done, but there's also a lot of races out there that you haven't done. Yeah, |
| 1:33.6 | you haven't done every race under the sun. So what is a race that you feel like you probably should |
| 1:40.8 | have done by now, but you just, one reason or another haven't gotten around to. |
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