- Morning Trainiacs.
Just out for a walk with the Dogiacs,
doing a lot of that.
Just like, dogiacs.
You like that, right?
Just like a lot of the world,
we're doing a lot more of this right now.
And there are a lot of things that we're
starting to do right now, during lockdown,
that we don't normally do when the schedule is typical.
And I went out to a lot of the pro's
who have YouTube channels and said,
"Hey, what are all of you doing
that's a little bit different right now?"
- Car.
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- First up is one of the female athletes that I think
is set to be one of the next, I would say, consecutive,
multiple time winners of Kona.
Not the only one.
But certainly one of them, Laura Philipp.
She's awesome.
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- Hey everyone, I'm Laura Philipp,
and one thing that I'm currently doing
that I never thought I would ever do again is skating.
(laughs)
I have my rollerblades on, and I use these poles
to do some swim-specific strength exercise,
and I skate up my favorite mountain,
and it's such a great exercise.
I feel my legs are growing (laughs).
And, yeah, if you also have some skates in your cellar,
try it out.
- Next is the only daily triathlon vlogger on YouTube,
we passed the torch over to Scott Bayvel,
who is also one of our coaches on Team Trainiac.
Thanks, Scott, you're awesome.
And you've got a tremendous accent, really good one.
- Hey everyone, Scott Bayvel here.
So, what am I doing differently now that I'm in lockdown,
that I wasn't doing before lockdown?
Well, just did a run on the treadmill indoors.
Treadmill running cap on, here.
And now, what I didn't do before this whole
coronavirus lockdown is play PlayStation.
I think I haven't played PlayStation
since I was back in school.
But now, I'm playing PlayStation.
And I'm replacing the NormaTec Boots with my PlayStation
as recovery at the moment,
and these are the games that I'm playing.
Hope everyone's doing well in the lockdown,
and find something that you weren't doing now
that maybe you've got a bit more time on your hands to do.
- Next up, the Trues, some of my favorites.
Not these Trues.
These Trues.
- Hi, it's Sarah.
- And I'm Ben.
- And what have we been up to?
That's different.
I've been teaching my nieces,
so I've been brushing up on what it's like
to be in second and fourth grade.
And exercising still.
Making sourdough bread.
- Yeah. Not much has changed for me.
Luckily, where we live, we can still run outside.
So still been able to do the majority of my training.
The only hard part is finding tracks.
- And a barber.
- Can you tell me about this haircut?
- No (laughs).
- Gotta be more aerodynamic, because you know.
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Because, you know.
Turban flow.
- It's something.
- Yeah.
- It's his quarantine hair, yeah.
All right, hope everybody's doing okay.
- Yeah.
- Bye.
- So next up is some of the best, strongest legs
in the business, Ruth Astle,
who won the overall female amateur in Kona last year.
World champion, she's damn good.
- So I'm quite lucky in that actually,
I haven't had to change too much.
We're still allowed to go outside here.
So I've been able to do
quite a lot of riding and running outside.
Something that I probably have changed is I'm taking
the extra time through not swimming to do a lot more yoga.
So I've been trying to do yoga
about four or five times a week.
As you can see, I am pretty rubbish right now,
and have got a long way to go.
So one of the things that I'm going to be working on
throughout lockdown is that kind of mobility
and flexibility, and some strength.
So hopefully, by the end of the next few weeks,
or however long it's going to be,
I might (laughs) actually be able to do
some slightly more advanced yoga moves.
But let's see, I think there's some quite impressive
yoga triathletes out there,
that I've got quite a lot to live up to.
But we'll keep working on it.
- Next is Olympian and fellow dog whisperer, Ben Kanute.
Whoa.
Apparently I'm not.
- I'm Ben Kanute, and during this time of quarantine,
and shelter in place, the thing that I've been doing
that I didn't do before everything that was going on
is I'm training a puppy.
We got one just as about the quarantine was starting,
so we've been working a lot on training.
He's only nine weeks old.
So it's still a work in progress,
but we'll see how he's progressed.
Tucker, come here, Tucker.
Come here.
Come here, Tucker.
Good boy.
(clicker clicks)
Sit.
Good.
(clicker clicks)
Down.
Good boy.
(clicker clicks)
- So there's all those fun, casual videos out there.
Then there's these show offs who come out of left field
and really make us all feel bad about our video editing
and producing skills.
- Hey everybody, I'm Eric, this is Paula.
Our YouTube channel is called That Triathlon Life,
and we basically just show what we do,
highlights of the week.
We're down here in Tucson, Arizona, right now.
The thing that we've been doing a bit more of
since the coronavirus hit is camping.
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- So we go down to Patagonia,
it's about an hour and a half from Tucson.
The roads are really empty, we do a lot of gravel riding,
just to minimize our interaction with people.
We hardly see anybody on those rides.
And there's also a lake down there,
for some open water swim access.
Which is a privilege right now,
since all of the pools are closed up here.
- Yeah, we're able to do this because we do have a van.
We initially kind of built out the van to allow us
to do big road trips, and kind of take weekend trips
to places we wanted to go train.
And it's just turned out to be super handy in these times.
- So we've been living with Heather and Roddy
while we're down in Tucson,
so they're kind of our quarantine crew.
And they've been coming down and camping with us.
We come back to Tucson to their house every week or so
to get groceries, do laundry,
and then head back down camping again.
So we love the van, it makes it really easy to pack up food
and have soewhere to sleep that's comfortable.
It doesn't have a shower, so we get creative with that.
But it's all things we wouldn't normally do in-season
if we were actually racing and needing to be
a little bit more focused and disciplined
with our training schedules.
So this pandemic has sort of allowed us the flexibility
to go and have fun camping and doing off road,
different things that we wouldn't normally do.
- Yeah, I think that's the biggest thing for
the whole pandemic time, is just to embrace it.
See what it is for what it is,
do some things that you normally wouldn't be able to do.
Maybe you haven't done in years.
And I don't know, pick up some new skills,
and do what you can while you can.
Cool.
Stay healthy, everybody (laughs).
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- Well, there's that masterpiece.
Thanks for putting that together, Eric and Paula.
As NTK put it, then there's this (laughing).
Challenge?
I don't know what Team Charles-Barclay is up to.
They're going a little squirrely.
- Hi, I'm Lucy Charles, and for this exercise,
you're going to need a Bosu, a dog,
and lots and lots of balance.
It's very, very difficult.
But it's really good for your running,
it tones your bottom up.
(blows out air)
(laughing)
(beeps)
- And me?
Well, training is lighter.
So I am spending a lot of time playing Doom Eternal.
I got an Xbox, and it's the first time
I've played video games in about 15 years.
Oh.
So that's it, Trainiacs.
Thanks to all the pro's for contributing.
There are links to all of everyone's channels
in the description below.
We're all looking for things to do
to entertain ourselves during lockdown.
And the more we have the better.
So all of their channels are putting out content
that you can go and watch while you're busy,
perhaps in between Xbox games.
If you aren't already subscribed,
and you want content during lockdown,
that's our kind of channel.
Hit the subscribe button below.
I've got to get back to this.
- Hey Buddy, what have you been up to during quarantine?
Nothing?
Chasing squirrels?
Yeah?
Ignoring your humans?
Meh.