What's up Motivators, Taryn here. Today's podcast guest is another Taryn, a wiser Taryn in the realm of triathlon diet.

And that is Taryn Richardson, who is known as Dietitian approved on Instagram.

She is an endurance sports dietitian.

We've actually just recently created a blog post covering the entire guide that people need to know if they are looking at getting started nailing down their triathlon diet.

She herself has a triathlon diet and nutrition planning course that you can access online, but a really excellent knowledge base for what an appropriate endurance diet is.

And when I say, what is an appropriate endurance diet?

You might think, well, like, what is that?

What is appropriate?

Is it just good foods?

Well, yeah, it is good foods.

But the big thing that we wanted to talk to Terran about, we've both decided that it's kind of odd to be

talking about each other as Terran when we're both Terrans. But the big thing that we wanted

to talk about with her today was triathlon diet periodization. I've talked about this concept

in the past, and I've called it other things like carbohydrate timing or macronutrient

timing. The broad idea of triathlon diet periodization is similar to the idea of periodization

with our training. We don't just train at one intensity all the time. Sometimes we train very intensely. Sometimes we train

at a very low intensity for a long period of time. Or sometimes we have recovery runs and recovery

workouts that are completely low intensity and very short. We give our body the workout that it needs

to stimulate the correct response that we want. Pared with that, we should also

be giving our body the nutrition that it needs to make sure that those workouts are giving our

body the stimulus that it needs at the time. The idea of triathlon diet periodization is really just pairing the right diet

with the right workout, with the right period of your training, with the right week,

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