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That Triathlon Show

[Triathlon Science] Durability decoded - a 2025 perspective with Michele Zanini, PhD

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

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

4.9596 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Michele Zanini, PhD, returns to the That Triathlon Show to discuss his latest research on the topic of durability. We also broaden the discussion to include the most up to date research findings on durability from the broader sports science community.

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0:00.0

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

0:15.4

Edickson.

0:16.5

I have first a quick update on the lack of episodes in the last couple of weeks.

0:21.9

I've been pretty sick.

0:23.3

I lost my voice for some time there as well, just from coughing so violently.

0:28.9

So, yeah, now I'm back to things, but that was the reason that I couldn't be recording

0:32.8

anything, which means that also had the base training series episode with Jack that I promised that we promised you guys was a bit delayed.

0:43.0

We're still going to do the final episode but we'll probably be recording next week, so the week of the new year.

0:49.5

And it might be released probably the first full week of January.

0:54.4

So, yeah, apologies for the delay in that and for the lack of podcasts recently, but we're

1:00.1

back and the aim is to be consistent again going forward.

1:03.1

Hopefully that's the illness quota filled for the last while at least.

1:08.5

But today I have Mikhailis Sanini on the podcast. He returns. He was on a couple of years

1:14.4

ago. And in this episode, we will discuss his research recently on the topic of durability. He's

1:20.6

published quite a few studies. And we'll discuss them as well as, of course, practical take-home

1:25.7

messages for what triathletes and other endurance

1:28.4

athletes can do to improve their durability.

1:31.1

As a quick note in case you skip before the end of the interview at that point,

1:37.3

McKell announces a PhD scholarship that is still open for application for a short period

1:42.0

of time and I have a link for that scholarship

1:44.7

in the episode description and the podcast show notes with more information for those interested.

1:49.9

There's also another link there that Michele provided, which is female athlete survey for both

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