- Morning, trainiacs, you may have noticed me mentioning
that I'm posting all of my training logs,
like every single day,
with details of all the workouts, by email.
But, I haven't actually explained what that email is.
So, I figure that's worthy of an update
to explain what y'all are getting yourselves into,
stuff like this.
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Alright, so I realized recently that, obviously, duh,
even though I post things
in like fairly chronological order,
sometimes it's not in chronological order.
YouTube doesn't order things for you as you watch them
in chronological order.
People aren't finding my stuff in chronological order.
So, even if I were to share every single workout that I did,
which I used to do, which a lot of people liked,
it was totally out of place,
'cause there was no context
about where those workouts were placed
in the course of a week, in the course of a year.
I mean, people might be watching something now
based on the comments that I posted three months ago.
So, if they're looking at that workout
and said, "Oh, that's what Taren did,
"maybe I should start doing that,"
but they're in their off-season, it's just all kinds of bad.
So, what I came up was this idea that every single week,
we would send out my training log.
And it would break down what I did every single day,
every single workout,
little bit of context about why I'm doing that,
little bit of context about why the week is the way it is.
And then, you can get a flavor of
how to maybe train yourself,
a little bit of a flavor of
what the Team Trainiac training is going to be like,
like just all kinds of context
besides me just sitting and yapping in front of the camera,
day after day.
So, what we've got here is last Monday's email,
'cause we're planning on getting these out on Monday,
because TrainingPeaks summarizes each training week
from Monday to Sunday.
So by Monday morning, the past week is summed up.
And this is what an email is going to be like,
explaining why I'm doing what I'm doing
and where it fits in the overall scheme
of what I'm trying to accomplish.
Of course, big disclaimer,
that this is not personalized training for you,
but personalized training
will be on the Team Trainiac training platform.
A quick thing, we are going to open up
only 250 spots for that
when it first comes out
to make sure that everything works
and like, the software doesn't break.
The backers of the Kickstarter campaign
will get first crack at that
and then, the remainder of the paid spots.
So, let's assume that like 150 of the backers say like,
"Alright, I'm in,
"I'll be regular member after their beta testing period
"and their free testing period is over."
The remaining spots will be released to the public.
So, I'm imagining that's gonna be a fairly small amount
and you're gonna wanna be on the Team wait list
to make sure, if you wanna get in on that right away.
So, triathlontaren.com/teamwaitlist.
Alright, back to the email.
So then, I'll go through every single workout
that I've done throughout the week,
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
Saturday, Sunday, that's a week.
I will have explanation of what I did
and then a little bit of why I did it.
And then, there will be one of those workouts
that I'll asterisk and make of point of showing
that this is something that's really proprietary
and I think, kind of the secret sauce
of what's going to be included
in the Team Trainiac training platform.
So, in this case, for anyone that's new to my training,
I've pointed out that the hex bar deadlift routine
paired with a max effort plyometric jump
is like the cornerstone to my annual training philosophy
and that's incorporated
into the Team Trainiac training platform
and then I'll link to
where you could go get on the wait list if you wanted to.
But then, details on everything else.
So I mean, frankly,
I know that there's probably gonna be a whole bunch of you
that might take this and just go
and do the training on your own
and not join the Team Trainiac training platform.
If that's what you wanna do, that's on you man.
But, I think that this is intended
to give everyone just a little more understanding
and confidence about what that is.
At the bottom here,
we will go and take the TrainingPeaks stats
that have come from the week before.
So, what you're gonna get is a screenshot
of the most previous week
and it's not very exciting right now,
because I'm in the off-season,
but it'll explain how much I trained.
Five hours and three minutes,
oh that's a far cry from the 15s
I was putting out in the summer.
Total distance, the total training stress score,
haha, that's super low.
I was doing that in one workout in the summer.
The distance I swam, the distance that I biked,
the distance that I ran, which is nothing.
And it'll indicate which of these workouts are which.
If you're not familiar with TrainingPeaks,
it'll indicate strength workout, swimming, running, biking.
The training stress score is how intense that was.
So, what you'll see is, day by day,
which workouts I go really long,
which workouts I go really short, but really intense,
which workouts and days I go and rest,
and you'll see all of that.
So now, if you go to triathlontaren.com/traininglog,
this is what you'll see.
All it takes is putting in your email address
and then you click this button here.
Taren@supercoolandhandsomedude.com,
I wonder if that URL is available?
You click send me the workouts.
Doesn't cost ya anything.
This is literally just a free service
that I thought would be a really good idea
considering that we are kinda putting out
a full training program
and this would be a good idea for,
good way for people to get familiar with
what the training is going to be like.
Granted, like I said, big disclaimer,
this is not customized training for you.
This is what I'm doing
and to get the customized training for you,
it's really meant to happen
on the Trainiac training platform,
because we have all of those pieces
of monitoring your readiness to train,
monitoring how well you're doing, a proper build,
making sure that you're training on your schedule,
not on my schedule,
that you're recovering well,
that you're getting good workouts
based off of the time that you are racing.
Like, if you were to follow my workouts
and you're from Australia,
you're gonna be totally bass ackwards,
it wouldn't make any sense.
But, in that training program,
everything is customized to your year, your schedule,
when your races are, how fit ya are.
I think it's really good.
It's like almost everything that you would get
from a one-on-one coach.
In some cases, I would actually say quite a bit more,
because there's big motivation aspects
and there are discounts on a whole bunch of sponsor gear.
Pretty good for a fraction of the price.
Anyway, go subscribe to those emails.
That's it, that's all I'm gonna say.
Triathlontaren.com/traininglog, if you're interested.
Oh, and on that note, here is a fancy montage
of the workout that I did this morning.
And if you wanna see the details of that workout,
gotta go into the training log.
There we go, works out perfectly, right?
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