Triathlon Training for Masters Athletes - Maximise Performance in Your 50s and Beyond

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

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

4.9 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

We’re tackling a heavily requested topic today: triathlon training for masters athletes. Is it possible to slow down the natural performance decline through better and smarter training and recovery? Might you even be able to reverse time and hit new peaks later in life? Mikael Eriksson and Jack Hutchens discuss best practices for older athletes based on their coaching experience and the scientific literature.

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0:00.0	Welcome to that Trafflon show, the podcast presented by scientific
0:12.8	Traflon and hosted by me, Michael Erickson.
0:15.3	I'm joined by Jack Hutchins for today's discussion.
0:18.1	How are you doing today, Jack?
0:20.0	Hey, Michael, yeah. all good, thank you.
0:22.6	Enjoying the lovely Portuguese weather.
0:24.6	Been out on the bike quite a bit this week and I just wanted to touch on the fact that
0:29.6	I run 160 mil cranks on my TT bike, right?
0:34.6	But I recently got the 160 on my road bike as well just to get that kind of
0:41.0	similar hip angle. And really, I'm finding it a bit of a game changer. I'm able to hold a more
0:47.1	aggressive position on my road bike and it's transferring really nicely to the T-T bike. I'm
0:52.8	189 centimeters for the listeners to kind of be aware.
0:57.0	So they're very short cranks,
0:59.1	but yeah,
1:00.0	something that I recommend people try.
1:02.6	I'm definitely a full convert to the shorter crank.
1:06.4	How's your weak game?
1:08.7	That's funny.
1:09.7	I'll send this to one of my athletes who basically, well, he jokingly calls it
1:14.8	big short crank, kind of like big pharma or big, whatever, big tech, you know,
1:21.1	in a conspiratorial way.
1:24.2	He's a tall athlete, slightly taller than you even.
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