Top-5 tips for advanced athletes to get faster | TTS Thursday #16

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

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

4.9 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Top-5 tips for advanced athletes to get faster | TTS Thursday #16 Learn to race (and not just execute a plan) Optimise gear and equipment Explore psychological aspects to performance Increase focus on and commitment to recovery Get a coach, mentor or advisor LINKS AND RESOURCES: Scientific Triathlon website Coaching Training Plans TTS Thursday Episode Archive Bike fitting, equipment, and triathlon bike training with David Bowden | EP#287 Bike fitting with Phil Burt (former Team Sky) | EP#232 Bike Fitting Q&A with Phil Burt | EP#254 Dan Bigham – aerodynamic testing, equipment, and making your bike fast | EP#229 Physiology, coaching and aerodynamics with Jamie Pringle, PhD | EP#288 Tire pressure, aerodynamics, and smart equipment upgrades with Josh Poertner | EP#235 Aerodynamics, Rolling Resistance, Weight, and Return On Investment with Sebastian Schluricke | EP#90 Sports psychology and applied neuroscience with Simon Marshall, PhD and Lesley Paterson | EP#282 Practical application of sports psychology for triathletes with Dr. JoAnn Dahlkoetter | EP#108 Mental skills and the psychology of suffering with Carrie Cheadle | EP#97 Sleep – the foundation of health and performance with Dr. Charles Samuels | EP#216 Sleep, recovery, and performance with Shona Halson | EP#52 Athlete Sleep Screening Questionnaire Glycogen metabolism and optimising glycogen resynthesis with Bob Murray, PhD | EP#252 Nutrition for endurance and ultra-endurance athletes with Trent Stellingwerff, PhD | EP#265 Endurance sports nutrition: state of the art in 2019 with prof. John Hawley | EP#181 SPONSORS: ZEN8 - The ZEN8 Indoor Swim Trainer is a tool for time-crunched triathletes looking to improve swim specific strength and technique. Trusted by BMC PRO Triathlon Team, age-group triathletes, coaches and physios around the world. Visit zen8swimtrainer.com/tts for 20% off your order. 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. Visit roka.com/tts for 20% off your order. RATE AND REVIEW: If you enjoy the show, please help me out by subscribing, rating and reviewing. 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	Hey, what's up everybody and welcome back to that triathlon show.
0:04.7	The podcast presented by Scientific Triathlon.com.
0:08.6	I'm our host Michael and this episode is TTS First Day number 16.
0:12.6	And today we'll talk about the top five tips for advanced athletes to get faster.
0:18.0	But before that, a big thanks to our sponsors.
0:20.8	First we have Zen 8 that you can find on Zen8Simtrainer.com. The Zen8 swim trainer is an inflatable swim bench that helps you work on your swim technique, power and stamina in a very time-efficient manner because you can do it from the comfort of your own home and you can do it using all of the design features of the synachim trainers to help
0:38.9	you work on things like a high elbow catch and core activation due to the built-in instability
0:44.8	element of the swim bench. With using the swim bench when you combine that with normal swimming
0:50.0	in the pool or open water, it allows you to get a higher frequency of training stimulus in.
0:54.8	If you are limited in the number of times, you can get to the pool each week, which most of us are
0:59.4	because it is quite time consuming. And that is where the Zen 8 swim trainer comes in and can help you.
1:06.4	You can get 20% off your order of the Zen8 swim trainer with a promo code that you can get on
1:10.7	Zen8 swimtrainter.com forward slash tts. And thank you to Roka that you can find on Roka.com.
1:17.4	Roka are the world leading manufacturers of wetsuits, trisuits, swinskins, goggles, high-performance
1:21.6	eyewear and prescription glasses and sunglasses. Roka has multiple international and US patents and top-of-the-line technology and
1:30.1	innovations in all of their product ranges. Some examples showing just how innovative this company
1:35.2	is, includes their arms-up technology that you have in all of their wetsuits from the entry
1:40.2	level and up, also in all of their trisuits and of course in their swimskins.
1:44.8	Their sunglasses and prescription glasses all have gecko anti-slipp technology so that you
1:50.0	cannot have your glasses fall off your face no matter how hard you try.
1:53.8	There are one goggles that are used in swimming, have rapid sight angled lenses so that you
1:59.5	can lift your head less and therefore lose
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