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That Triathlon Show

Triathlon Base Training Series 1 - How to train smarter in winter to race faster in summer

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

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

4.9596 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

How should you train in your "base training" phase? Long slow distance? Reverse periodisation? Lots of gym work? Scientific Triathlon coaches Mikael Eriksson and Jack Hutchens discuss best practices of base training for triathletes.

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0:00.0

Welcome to That Traflon Show, the podcast presented by Scientific Traathlon.

0:12.0

I'm your host, Michael Erikson, and today I have the pleasure of welcoming Jack Hutchens

0:17.0

as a co-host for not just this episode, but for this whole series of episodes.

0:22.3

So Jack, welcome to the podcast. How are you doing?

0:25.5

I'm great. Thanks a lot for having me. I'm excited to get into it.

0:29.1

Yeah, it's going to be a good one.

0:31.0

We'll get into a bit of chat about your recent trip to Australia,

0:34.3

but first we have to thank our sponsors precision fuel hydration.

0:38.7

And I know that you use their products. So I wanted to ask you, what's your favorite

0:42.5

precision fuel hydration product that you're using? Why? I'm going to have to go for the 90 grand

0:47.2

PF 90 gel. That's a classic favorite, I guess, for a lot of people. But just for ease of use,

0:53.0

going out for a long run tempo run not having to

0:55.4

carry multiple gels it's just super easy it's what i take when i'm racing 70 point three's as well

1:01.0

have that in t2 i know that i don't have to rely on any carbs from the the race and yeah always goes down

1:09.6

very well so yeah yeah no that's a good choice i think i agree

1:14.9

with you there and of course athletes that are going to the seven 23 world championships in marbea

1:20.7

are going to have the benefit of using precision validation products on course because they're the

1:26.3

title sponsor so that's great news for everybody going there.

1:29.9

And listeners can get 15% of their first order of 2025 with the code TTS-2025 on

1:36.4

precisionfillingidation.com.

1:38.7

So yeah, you recently came back from Wollongong.

1:42.3

You were guiding in the Paragrant Final. So can you tell us a

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