What's up, Trainiacs? Today's podcast is going to be all about a tri-bike versus a road bike. How much

faster is a tri-bike versus a road bike? Or is it, actually? When should you use a tri-bike?

Or really, should you even think about buying a tri-bike? Do you have to have a tri-bike?

Hint, the answer is no. What sorts of upgrades should you have if you're not actually looking at buying a tri-bike? Hint, the answer is no. What sorts of upgrades should you have

if you're not actually looking at buying a tri-bike? What are the differences in bike fit and what

muscles are used, everything around a tri-bike versus a road bike? And this is based on a series

of posts that we did on our blog at mymotive.com in conjunction with Matt

Botrell, who I like to call the bike fit expert to the stars. He's one of the best time trial

coaches and bike fitters and just like really, really knowledgeable about taking a really big engine, a good fit athlete, and then

adapting them to the needs of a triathlon bike. So the two of us actually collaborated on some

blog posts there that you can go check out at my motive.com on the blog. Now, before we get into it,

let's thank today's sponsor. It is athletic greens. Athletic

greens, they refer to it as all-in-one nutritional insurance. Now, this is what I use as a replacement

for what has historically been a multivitamin, like a pill that I would take. And as a lot of you

might know, the effectiveness of multivitamins and

oral pills has been really brought into question over the last bunch of years because

it's thought that you just really can't absorb things very well with a pill in an oral

pill. And it's just not very bioavailable. Now, athletic greens, I've been trying for a couple of

years now and I'll spare you the nitty gritty details of how I know that my stomach and digestive

system is absorbing it. But the reason that it is so much better is because it is 75 vitamins and

minerals from whole food based ingredients. So it comes in a

powder form. You mix it up, you shake it up, taste really good. I actually use it as flavoring

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