Ten high-leverage ways to improve your training and triathlon performance | EP#189

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

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

4.9 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Learn about ten extremely important and high-leverage ways to improve your training and triathlon performance. These aspects of the training process are often not in place, in particular in self-coached athletes. If you can start incorporating even a few of them in your training you are pretty much guaranteed to see great improvements in your training and triathlon performance. IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: -Knowing the purpose of each and every workout -Having the right mindset in training to make the most of every workout -Prerequisites of successful workouts - mobilisation, hydration status, energy and carbohydrate status, recovery status -Using session-RPE to train at the right intensity -Focusing on the big picture -Balancing your engine and your chassis -Getting out of your comfort zone by doing things that you consciously or subconsciously tend to avoid doing in training -Using group training strategically -Benefiting from the compound effect of coaching, testing, and technical advice -Constantly improving your training and racing by an effective review and self-reflection process SHOWNOTES: https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts189/ 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! 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. Get 20% off your entire order with the discount code TTS. LINKS AND RESOURCES: A New Approach to Monitoring Exercise Training - Carl Foster 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 Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter.

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0:00.0	That Traathlon Show, 189.
0:18.0	Hey, what's up, everybody, and welcome back to another episode of that triathlon show, the podcast
0:24.2	presented by scientific triathlon.com. I'm your host Michael and on today's episode I talk about
0:30.4	10 ways to improve your training and triathlon performance and these are 10 things that I've
0:37.0	noticed that I often end up talking about
0:38.7	with my coaching clients and also I use them myself in my training to make sure that my
0:44.2	training is effective and just briefly to give you an idea these are the 10 things one
0:50.5	knowing the purpose of each workout to having the right mindset and taking the right mindset into each day and into each workout.
0:58.1	3. The prerequisites of a successful workout.
1:02.0	4. Using session RPE to train at the right intensity.
1:06.0	5. Focusing on the big picture.
1:09.1	6. The theory of constraints and the engine and the chassis.
1:13.9	7. Getting out of your comfort zone, but not just by going harder.
1:18.4	8. Using group training strategically.
1:21.5	9. Benefiting from the compound effect of coaching, testing and technical advice.
1:26.6	And 10. Reviewing your training and racing.
1:30.6	A quick house cleaning item, as I mentioned on a couple of episodes before. Scientific Traathlon
1:35.1	now has an Instagram account and we're trying to be quite active there and giving out some
1:40.7	good content and videos and things like that so check it out it's at scientific
1:46.2	triathlon hq if you're on instagram give us a follow and i hope that you'll enjoy the content there
1:52.4	now thank you to our sponsors precision hydration there's still some time to send in hydration
2:00.0	questions for my interview with andy Blow or I guess not interview but hydration Q&A that will have with expert guest Andy Blow founder of precision hydration so send in those questions some of you have already done so which is brilliant so we have a list but there's still time to get your question answered of course
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