What's up, Trainiacs? Today we have a really interesting podcast. It's with Dr. Rafael Sinsgalli.

Now, she is a researcher in Brazil who did a phenomenal study that confirms a lot of what I've been saying over the last few years.

If you want to go and look it up, you just Google impact of training volume and experience

on amateur Ironman triathlon performance. And what they found that was so shocking was that

athletes who trained under 14 hours a week on average for an Iron Man race versus athletes who trained 15 to 20 hours a week on average for an Iron Man race versus athletes who trained 15 to 20 hours a week on average

for an Iron Man race versus athletes who trained more than 20 hours a week on average for an Iron Man race.

Well, the cohort, the group of athletes that actually perform the best were the athletes who trained

the least. The athletes who trained

less than 14 hours a week ended up racing about eight minutes faster. Now, it's a very small

difference, but it's a big thing when you start looking at this entire culture of triathlon training

where Moore is always thought to be better. And if you look at forums

online or the comment section of so many videos or articles that are online, you'd think that everyone

is training 20 hours a week or more. And there's even this culture of fetishizing, suffering, and that unless you're training 20 hours a week or more. And there's even this culture of fetishizing, suffering, and that unless you're

training 20 hours a week or more, you aren't a serious triathlete. And everyone claims that they are doing

it right. But really, what's happening is across the board, people seem to be undoing all of their

hard work with more training.

And we're going to talk to Dr. Raphael about that.

Interesting thing about her is she herself is an athlete and she deals with patients in clinic

every single day.

So she is not just seeing the results of this study.

She is actually seeing the results in her own performance and she's seeing them in the results of this study, she is actually seeing the results in her own performance

and she's seeing them in the performance of athletes and patients who she works with. So we ended up

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