- The secret to triathlon training
that will make you a pro.
(whooshing)
Hack is related to that unemployment.
(whooshing)
Color-coordinated group of dudes out there today.
(whooshing)
(upbeat electronic music)
Morning, trainiacs.
It's tea time.
The triathlon training hacks video
that I put up the other day,
I was just looking at it yesterday for kicks,
and it got me thinking about what are
the untold triathlon training hacks that pros use?
Now, if you came here for the secret
to triathlon training that will make you a pro,
you're in the wrong place, because these
are the biggest, air quote, hacks imaginable.
Now, the first hack that the pro triathletes
use is unemployment.
A really, really big chunk of them, once they get up
to that elite level, don't have another job.
Triathlon is their job.
Their entire focus is to make sure
that they're ready for the next race,
and they stay injury-free.
Think about how good you could be at your job
if it was the only thing that you did.
Your entire life revolved around it
from the second you woke up until
the second you went to bed, that was your main focus,
that was what you designed your life around.
You'd probably be pretty good and
pretty successful at it.
But, us age group athletes, we have no choice
but to slam in all kinds of other things.
Slam in a job, slam in taking care
of your kids, dogs, family, real life.
It all gets in the way of us being
as fast and as successful in triathlon as pros are.
Granted, they're taking a big risk being
basically unemployed professional triathletes.
The rewards are big, but the risk?
Woo!
(upbeat electronic music)
Tea time outside.
A second, whoa, hack is related to that unemployment hack,
and that's being able to put a
huge amount of time on recovery.
Things like naps, just lying down,
not having to run from work to the next workout,
from the workout to work, work to home,
to run kids around to soccer or hockey practice,
being able to sleep eight, nine,
10 hours a night every night.
That recovery aspect that pros are able to schedule in
a lot easier than the average age group athlete
is able to schedule in is a huge benefit to them
that allows them to train more intensely,
train more frequently.
And because they're training more frequently,
they need a lot more rest,
and then because they get a lot more rest,
they can train a lot more frequently and more intensely.
Like, it's this awesomely vicious cycle
of being able to get faster, and being able to recover.
Or being able to recover so that you can get faster.
Yes, that way.
Now, the third triathlon hack that pros have
is all the data that they're able to accumulate
through their coaching, their testing,
the high performance programs
that each of the countries that they have
is putting them through.
Being able to understand what your body reacts to
really well with VO2 Max workouts,
or certain training zones, or diet.
All of that data that goes into
making faster and better and creating a program
that is specifically designed for you
is what allows them to go from that, like,
getting from, say, reaching 80 or 90%
of their athletic potential,
to all the way up to 100, or maybe 110.
Reaching potential, aw, Gracie, that's disgusting.
Reaching potentials that you didn't think
were physically, humanly possible,
like having 145 Olympic distance triathlons
from the Brownlee brothers, that doesn't happen
from just training like us age group athletes can do.
The amount of science that has to go into that is,
like (gurgling).
I do that a lot, I need a, like a graphic
of Taren's Mind was blown (gurgling).
Then finally, the very last thing that is a hack
that pro triathletes have,
that us average age group athletes don't have
is they're genetic freaks of nature.
Gotta do my duty as a good pet owner.
Their physical ability to recover is way better
than us average age group athletes.
Their ability to constantly keep getting better
and not plateau early on is better
than us age group triathletes.
Their mental ability to push through barriers,
and endure pain is better than
us average age group triathletes.
To be the top 1% of 1% of 1% in anything in the world,
hard work is gonna get you pretty far,
but it's not gonna be the only thing.
Because there are thousands of other people in the world
that can put in the hard work as well.
You need a certain level of genetic talent
to set yourself apart from the other thousands
of people that are also putting in the work.
So it's a combination of, yes, absolutely crazy,
put everything else in your life on hold hard work,
and that genetic talent to receive all that hard work
and become faster, not burn out.
That said, are we all destined to just be total schlubs
unless we're unemployed?
Do thousands and thousands of dollars
worth of testing get our genetics in line?
I don't know how you'd possibly do that, and rest all day.
No, you can always become the best version of yourself,
but this is all just to say that
instead of comparing ourselves to anyone else out there,
we have to compare ourselves to ourselves.
Because you don't know what systems, luxuries,
gifts, genetics other people have in play
that you don't.
Be the best traniac that you can be.
If it would just dry out a little bit
Pat and I could go for a nice little recovery ride.
But it's sloppy right now.
It's really sloppy.
(bike gears rotating)
She's dry, it's humid, it's windy.
Here, see if you can
you can't here this now, but
(scratching)
That's your dead cap.
That's what keeps it from being like
(record scratching)
all the time.
Do you hear that?
Apparently we're getting a hell of a tail-wind
on the way back, but going out is not gonna be a treat.
This baby I use for when it's really humid out
because I sweat a lot.
Somebody mentioned, and I've been thinking about this
for a while, doing Tri Taren, well more traniac, kits.
But hit the like button below if you'd wear
one of these do-rags in traniac style.
Cause looking stylish is the most important.
You see how I did this?
Red trim, red trim, red trim, red trim,
red trim on the hair, yellow, yellow,
it's all a part of the plan.
Alright, out in the wind.
(bike gears clicking)
(steady electronic music)
Oh, the most color coordinated man in triathlon.
- I try, I try. - (laughing)
- You might as well look good.
- Yeah.
- Look good being slow.
(steady electronic music)
(bike gears clicking)
Wasn't that just the most color coordinated
group of dudes out there today?
We did some pretty good work on the way back into the city.
Where we at, Strava?
48.2K in 144.
That way back into the city was good for third overall
out of 460 in history at average of
49.8 kilometers for 5.9K
in seven minutes 12 seconds,
and I am a long way behind my buddies
Jared and Mark.
(sighs) That felt really good, traniacs,
even after a big swimming day yesterday.
I tell ya, carrying a fair bit of fitness right now
which tells me that the volume, the overall plan,
the strength that I did for the long swim,
I think that I came close to nailing it.
Short and easy run tomorrow,
and then we get into taper week.
The hay, I just have too many things going on right now.
The hay is in the barn.
If you aren't already subscribed
today would be a very good day to subscribe
because tomorrow we're gonna follow
Pat to his first triathlon of the year,
which I bet is gonna be an outright win.
And we're gonna document it, and do it up
very nice, very cinematically.
A lot of good shots we're gonna try out.
I've gotta put you down, traniacs.
I just got a bike, I got a helmet,
I got an awesome bandana, do-rag.
It's too much.
(bike gears clicking)
Alright, see ya, traniacs.
Off the top rope.