- What's up Trainiacs?
You know you're starting to travel a fair bit
when the airline attendants start recognizing you.
Well, we have just spent three days at home
and we are on the road again heading to LA
to produce the How to Bike with Cam Wurf Masterclass
and because you all seem to like it
and you ask such good questions,
we're going to answer the questions
that you asked me on Instagram.
Some good ones.
I took a look.
- May I have your attention please
- Geez!
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Alright, we got a little bit of time
before we gotta hop on the flight.
So, first question: is it okay
to dial back an intense workout
and make up for it the next day?
Making up for workouts the next day,
I certainly don't agree with
and if you have to dial back a workout
that's probably an indication that you need some rest,
so it's not like, hey rest and then boom,
slap it into the next day, because
that just has a trickle effect.
If you miss a workout, you miss a workout.
But that's okay.
That's part of training.
Just pushing things into future days
because you feel bad that you missed them
is likely going to lead to injuries,
overuse, overtraining, all kinds of things like that.
If you miss a workout, typically it's gone.
Do you count transition runs into your weekly mileage?
Yeah.
It's running, isn't it?
Running is running, absolutely.
How's the jet lag?
You tell me.
In the video Shirt Taren Eats you mentioned writing a book.
Any details yet, or is it top secret?
Yeah, I've been thinking a lot about the book.
I've actually developed a skeleton for it.
I have to actually write the proposal for the book.
The idea of it that I've got in mind
is like all the things that go around training.
Not here is literally how to train, but things like
the supplements you should take, tire pressure.
The idea is like high-leverage tips,
things that are actually really useful,
separate out the propaganda from here's what's useful,
here's what's practical, here's what you can
actually implement and has been proven
to be really effective and told in really short chapters.
Each chapter is only maybe two to three pages,
which makes it really digestible.
Here's the science behind it,
here's how you implement it,
here's why it's beneficial.
Boom, on to the next chapter.
That's what I've got in mind.
Best tips for increasing run speed.
Long runs should be zone two, but you can't
go much faster without spiking the heart rate,
so I imagine where you went with this is how do you
go fast if you can't really run fast with long runs.
Well, prescription for a weekly running plan
is one long run that is low, steady,
build up your cardiovascular system,
one fast run, that's where you get fast,
one hill run, that's where you start
recruiting more muscle groups, one brick one.
If you really want to knock running out of the park,
you do those four runs consistently for a few years.
You'll be real fast.
How to train to keep your heart rate down during a hot race.
Part of it is training to keep your heart rate down
just in training, so that's a lot of zone two training
that's building up your cardiovascular system.
What you can also do is do a sauna protocol,
where in the six weeks leading up to a race
you start with three 10-minute sessions
in the sauna immediately after your last
hard workout of the day with no fluids in that sauna.
Build it up to three times a week
going 30 minutes, no fluids still
immediately after a hard workout
and that will ideally lower your sweat rate
so that you start sweating quicker
and it keeps your body temperature cooler.
Spin bike or bike trainer?
Bike trainer, hands down, bike trainer.
You want to spend as much time as you can
on your bike in the right position: bike trainer.
Yeah, so this is where I live.
You all don't believe me?
This morning it was minus 30 Celsius with the wind chill.
That's right, wind chill.
The wind has its own temperature cool rating.
Yoga for strength and mobility
on my Triathlon Teran training plan?
Absolutely.
Well, I'm not gonna put it in
because I don't know a whole lot about yoga,
but I think yoga is fantastic for mobility.
Body awareness, very, very good.
If you were going to add it in,
just remember you gotta take something else out.
Yoga itself is a workout.
It's draining, it has a load on your body,
so just adding in yoga and being like,
oh, it's not a hard workout, can lead to overtraining.
Do you think Frodeno can make
a successful comeback this year?
Yes, absolutely.
He's such a phenomenally talented athlete.
I think that he may still have a really good Kona in him.
He is, however, I would say on kind of the
getting towards the end of his career,
so it's going to be hard for him to come back,
but based off of last year,
I don't think we can rule him out.
Besides that injury he had, he killed it last year.
What are your cheat, splurge meals and drinks?
I don't really have cheat meals.
I tend to just eat kinda the same all the time,
but I have red wine, if you want to count it that.
I have a lot of sweet potato fries,
if you want to count that as a cheat meal.
After a race I will crush an entire bag
of Jujubes or gummy bears and I might have a Corona
in the summer when it's hot on the deck.
I love a Corona and a lime.
Yeah, there's nothing that really stands out
as "I ate crap".
Oh, pizza.
Yeah, I'll crush a pizza.
You put a pizza in front of me, it's going down.
Do I watch pro cycling?
Oh, this is fun: NTK is actually coming on this trip.
Not right now, because she has to work right now,
but I'm gonna meet her at the airport tomorrow
or send her an Uber to meet me,
but she loves the Tour de France.
And while we're down there, Cam Wurf
is actually on a training camp with G, Geraint Thomas,
current Tour de France Champion.
Other than that, I don't watch a lot of pro cycling.
Hey Teran, what's your least favorite
part of being a triathlon YouTube sensation?
Well, I'd nix the sensation,
but just being on YouTube, there isn't really that
inherently with YouTube I dislike.
What is tough occasionally, and this is
a situation of my own making is
doing a video every single day.
Not every single day is extremely interesting
and sometimes if you've been around for a long time
I feel like I might repeat myself,
but then I know that there's a lot of new people
that haven't heard good stuff that I said say two years ago,
and maybe if I just say something
worded in a different way, even if somebody heard it
two years ago, maybe just a different wording
will allow them to understand it better,
or maybe they're at a time in their training
that they need to hear it.
So, it's a bit of a treadmill doing these daily videos,
and sometimes that's a hard thing.
Oh, that was all the questions that I had right now.
But I'll answer more, I'll answer more in a bit.
We're gonna fly.
People seem to like these.
I will link to video there, right up there
from heading to, where's the last place that I went?
Lanzarote with Lucy Charles.
Couple of flights later.
I am in Venice Beach and I know that for a fact
because there's a homeless man
rummaging through the garbage about 12 feet from here.
Alright, let's go ahead and answer
some of the last few questions.
Do you know why Specialized
are dropping athletes left and right?
Same reason Cervélo is dropping athletes left and right.
The game in the bike industry has changed a lot
and bike companies, they aren't making a lot of money.
Ventum going direct to consumer.
It's not just Ventum, but Ventum, Canyon,
these newer bike companies that are going
direct to consumer are the ones that are doing well,
and it's those go into a shop which has some margin
and those those bike companies have to have a lower margin.
Traditional bike companies are hurting.
What's Gracie and Petey's favorite snacks?
Fun fact, I gave them some sardines the other day.
They went nutty, just wacky.
They're my dogs, by the way if you're new.
How long did it take you to get a good triathlon time?
Well, first two seasons I was awful
and I didn't really make any progress.
In the third season I decided to take it
fairly seriously and then bam.
First race out, went from about a 1:24
sprint distance race down to a 1:12, instantly.
Stick around, I'll teach you stuff.
Do you completely rule out any alcohol
during training season?
No, I have red wine all the time.
Had a couple on the plane today.
How did you feel in Lanzarote with all
the elite athletes training with you and them?
Well, I got to bike, if you don't know,
with Patrick Lange, Lucy Charles,
Reece Barclay, the entire BMC team.
Felt really cool until they dropped me like a bad habit.
Do I travel with your indoor trainer?
I think you might know where this is going.
It's not a full Zwift setup in here.
That is the Omnium Indoor Travel Bike Trainer.
Yes, I did travel with it.
Who wins 2019 Kona?
Patrick Lange has established
that he knows how to win there.
With early issues, am I more relaxed or nervous
since the release of Team Trainiac?
Well, if all of you don't know,
we have released the Team Trainiac platform.
I haven't shared the URL here because I want
to give first dibs to the Kickstarter athletes,
the virtual camp athletes, everyone
that signed up for the wait list.
If all of them end up signing up
and we have enough capacity on the team,
and it looks like there's a lot of demand for it,
and I actually just chatted with a coach.
I think we're gonna have a second coach,
so I think we're gonna have some capacity
for athletes, then I will release it publicly.
So that makes me very excited.
However, it's still nervous because it's not like,
talk to me in like a year, after the website
is going and people are renewing or not renewing
and we've got a good handle on are we financially stable,
do we have a membership team that is rolling and doing well.
I think I might end it there.
I think that's it, I think that's it.
Yeah, so he's still outside.
And make sure you're subscribed if you want
to take part in the next, looks like it's gonna be
about two and a half weeks of travel.
Cam Wurf, Sarah True, and then I think
Erin Carson, Tim, Rinny in Boulder.
Later, Trainiacs.