That Trafflam Show, episode 27.

Hey, what's up, everybody?

Welcome back to another episode of That Traathlon Show, the podcast

presented by Scientific Traathlon.com. As always, I'm your host, Michael, and today's episode is the first

in a three-part series on training zones, where as we do in Traathlon, we will start with swimming,

and this will be followed by training zones for or episodes on training zones for cycling and running in coming episodes.

So we will dive right into the meat and potatoes with these episodes. I know that the last few episodes

have been running a bit long, maybe.

I don't know, some of you have actually written in some feedback and saying that you really

enjoy it. But I know also that some people want me to keep these episodes a bit shorter.

So I'll try to do that today and not ramble on too much. So let's just start by defining the purpose

of having training zones and training according to training zones. And as it relates to swimming,

but in general, it is a train or swim at the right intensity at the right time in order to make

your training as effective as possible.

So if you just go out as hard as you can every single time, you won't progress at the rate that

you could be doing otherwise. Likewise, if you're always just plodding at a very, very leisurely

pace, then you're not going to develop much

either. It will be a very limited progress that you make compared to if you are strategic about

what intensity is you train at. So zones are all about training intensities. And you can measure

intensity in a few different ways. And it depends on the sport a bit, and we'll go into that.

But essentially, when you're supposed to go easy, you don't go moderate. And when you're supposed to go hard, you don't go moderate.

Those are the most common mistakes that people go moderate all the time and never really go easy enough or hard enough for

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