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That Triathlon Show

Triathlon Base Training Series 2 - Swimming

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

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

4.9596 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

What should triathlon swim training look like in the off-season? Big volume, lots of technique work, high intensity focus, controlled threshold progressions, or something else entirely? Scientific Triathlon coaches Mikael Eriksson and Jack Hutchens discuss best practices for what to focus on in your swimming during the base training period.

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0:00.0

Welcome to That Traathlon Show, the podcast presented by Scientific Traathlon and hosted by me, Michael Erikson.

0:14.8

Today I'm joined once again by Jack Hutchens for part two of our base training series,

0:19.9

and today we'll discuss swimming during the

0:21.8

base training phase just one quick note before that on a current topic especially for those of you

0:27.5

who are new to the podcast and have found it recently this past weekend we had the seven

0:31.9

one three world championships or actually the precision fuel and hydration seven three world championships

0:36.5

iron man syndrome three world championships if I'm being really correct.

0:40.1

And I know that a lot of you love the interviews I've been doing with professional triathletes,

0:44.4

and I did a deep dive into training with Jélez a couple of months ago.

0:49.6

He was super open about his training, so he was a really great chat and really interesting to listen to

0:54.9

if you're yeah into learning about the training that that the top of the top athletes are doing

1:00.5

and i saw actually after the race that yales coach ben posted the video of the final sprint finish

1:07.3

with christian bloomenfeld and he wrote something like 40-20s the love-hate workout

1:13.1

which makes sense when you listen to that episode with Yele and hear what that 40-20 session

1:19.5

is about and how Yele feels about it.

1:22.1

So I'll put a link in the episode description so you can find it easily.

1:25.1

Definitely if you watch the race race you want to learn more about

1:28.0

Yele, the winner on the men's side, then go and listen to that. If anybody knows Lucy, Charles

1:33.6

Barclay, who of course won the women's race, then I would of course love to interview her as well.

1:38.8

So if it me in touch, that would be nice, but for now Yale is the one that I can refer you to from the podcast archives.

1:47.6

Now, just a quick thank you to our sponsors,

1:49.8

precision fuel hydration.

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