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The TriDot Triathlon Podcast

Triathlon Training's Biggest Lie: More Is Better

The TriDot Triathlon Podcast

TriDot Triathlon Training

Running, Fitness, Sports, Health & Fitness

4.9634 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Most athletes are convinced that the path to better performance is more. More miles, more hours, more sessions. Volume has become the proxy for commitment, dedication, and seriousness as an athlete. In this joint episode of the TriDot and RunDot Podcasts, Jeff Booher joins Andrew and Carrie to dismantle the more-is-better myth, walk through the data on quality versus volume, and answer the question that follows: if more isn't the answer, what is? The right sequence is intensity first, then duration, then frequency, with volume as the byproduct. Better before more. Then, and only then, more.

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, welcome to the show. Today in the podcast, we are talking training volume. How much

0:07.0

training do we actually need? Can less be more? Is more always better? This is a big time topic for

0:14.5

runners and triathletes. And so we've made it a tri-dot and run-dot episode today.

0:20.9

That's right. Carrie is here from the run-dot podcast and I am here from the tri-dot and run-dot episode today. That's right.

0:21.8

Carrie is here from the Run-DOT podcast, and I am here from the TriDOT podcast, and you're here as an endurance athlete who likes to train and race.

0:30.4

Our expert today is Jeff Boor.

0:32.5

He's the founder and CEO of predictive fitness, the company behind TriDOT and RunDOT. And Jeff, for this topic,

0:39.7

I've got my coffee here, so I'm alert and ready to learn. I made a Cortado, so it might not

0:44.4

be big enough. I should have gone bigger. But how are you today, Jeff? You ready to share?

0:48.9

I'm doing fantastic. Yeah. I love the topic. It's certainly the rage out there. People have a lot of opinions, so I'm ready to dig in.

0:57.2

Okay, well, as always, we start with our warm-up questions. So we're going to start there. Then we're going to move into the main set, learning all kinds of cool things from Jeff. And then we're going to ask Jeff an audience question on the cool down. Lots of good stuff today. So let's get after it.

1:12.2

This is the Tridot podcast, the triathlon show that brings you world-class coaching with every

1:19.0

conversation.

1:20.3

Let's get started with today's warm up.

1:24.1

As sports fans, we all have athletes and teams we love to love and we all have teams we love to hate.

1:31.3

For today's warm up question, what athlete or sports team do you most enjoy rooting against?

1:38.9

Who do you like to see lose?

1:42.1

Carrie, over to you first.

1:44.3

You know, this kind of hurts my mom heart.

1:46.7

Like, you know, even when I'm at the... You don't dislike anybody, Carrie. I don't. I really don't. I mean, I have a hard time cheering at like, you know, Little League when we get a hit and the other team does it. But I'm going to go. So I'm from Minnesota, as those of you who listen to our pod, like, you know that I have this Minnesota accent. And I have to say it. Like, growing up, we do not like the Packers. I love the Packers when they aren't playing the Vikings. But when they're playing the Pac, or when the Pack is playing the Vikings, sorry, you got to go. You got to go.

2:20.1

Carrie, I'm curious. So right now,

2:25.6

at the time we're recording this podcast, NHL is in its playoffs. And Jeff and I are Dallas Fort Worth. So we're Go Dallas Stars. And the Minnesota Wild just beat the Dallas Stars in the

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