You better know what the purpose of the workout is and the way that the workout is designed should in fact fit that purpose.

And it should be better than, well, that's how I did it.

That's Treitlam's So, 1966.

Hey, what's up, everybody, and welcome back to another episode of that triathlon show,

the podcast presented by Scientific Traathlon.com.

I'm your host Michael and on today's episode I interview Jason Coop, who is the director of coaching at Carmichael Training Systems.

He is really a wealth on knowledge and experience in endurance sports coaching, having coached a lot of age group triathletes, runners, cyclists, etc. But also being one of the most reputable

ultra running coach, having coached many of the best ultra runners in the sport today.

So what we'll talk about today, it's a general training talk, so we go into a lot

of a variety of different topics about how to train better as an endurance athlete's, but some

specific things include how much or actually how little fitness should you lose or allow

yourself to lose in the off season. Why you must know the purpose of every single workout

and block of training that you plan whether you're a coach or a self-coached athlete.

And we dive deeper into run training structure for triathletes since Jason is a very knowledgeable

runner and that's his background as an athlete. So how can triathletes structure their run training

to become better at the running leg? And we go into some common mistakes that age group

triathletes make and some current fads in triathlon and endurance sports. But before we do that,

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