🏊‍♀️🚴‍♀️🏃‍♀️What was your biggest triathlon mistake, and how did you fix it?

@sam004

4 жыл бұрын

Hi sir am from India... My name is Sagar Chavan... Am preparing for iron-man. But I don't have road bike... Can you give me your road bike for practice please...

@deanb61

3 жыл бұрын

Biggest mistake, that's easy, it was booking my first ironman for 2020!

Great video, on point! Keep it up.

Your points ring true for me as well Justin, especially nutrition!

Great video! Lots of great tips. Thanks for posting.

@JustinDoesTriathlon

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! I recently rewatched this, and yeah, still struggle with a lot of them today. The food thing is a constant pain.

Thanks for the tips dude

Very helpful! Thanks for sharing!

@JustinDoesTriathlon

3 жыл бұрын

You bet!

Awesome Video!

Bel video complimenti !

Great video thanks you

Really good tips. I have stopped spending on my bike and instead got a personal trainer for functional training. Also paying attention to nutrition on and off the bike

Thanks, I think the food problem will be my biggest but I ll try to learn from yours! :)

Great video Justin! I made some similar mistakes on my 1st IM. I didn't get my Heart rate zones set up properly. Consequently, I trained almost exclusively in Zone 3 which I understand is a big no no. I also ignored strength training and speed work. It was a blessing that these mistakes didn't cost me too much in the end. I have since corrected those and working towards another successful IM season. Hope to see you on the course again someday.

@JustinDoesTriathlon

5 жыл бұрын

I've got a friend who's training for his first right now, and we just recently were working on his zones. They were off too, and yeah, he was spending a bunch of time in (what's actually) z3. I don't stress about looow z3 *too much* on running, but especially for biking, I think it's really easy to go just try to hammer every ride, and that's that grey zone of badness. Excited for your year!

Undereating.. oh my gosh, yes. It’s amazing how many aches and pains cleared up when I started re-fueling properly!

@JustinDoesTriathlon

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah it's crazy! I had a lot of really bad workouts (mostly runs, but rides/swims too) where I was just completely out of energy. And absolutely you're right. Big difference on the recovery side of things too. Perfectly find the next day vs destroyed.

Thank you. My first IM will be mid 2023 so this is really helpful.

Thanks!

Great points I spotted a good few of my current mistakes, I seem to starve myself training

@JustinDoesTriathlon

3 жыл бұрын

That *STILL* gets me. If I had to bet, I think that's probably the most common one. Looking back, I can easily identify signs of perpetual underfueling. I just had no energy. I could get the workouts done, but had zero 'snap.'

best thing for me getting power pedels, and loving the saying you fit or your F (S )

Some of the best advice I got regarding buying gear, is if you want to go faster by lightening a bike, lose a pound of body weight vs spending a ton of money to shave a few grams of bike weight.

Great points made here, thank you! My first full is coming up fast (IM Chatt) and I have found all your points to be spot on.

@JustinDoesTriathlon

2 жыл бұрын

Hope you have a great race! Chatt's fun

Committed many of the mistakes you reviewed however I was the opposite in terms of diet. I fell into the trap of over eating / eating poorly. Tried to justify it by the amount of training I was doing but no amount of training justifies pizzas, donuts, chocolates, etc. 🤦🏽‍♂️

@JustinDoesTriathlon

5 жыл бұрын

Haha yeahhhh been there at times too. I've got a whole 'What I eat' video in the works, but long and short of it, I don't really follow any specific diet; I just try to *generally* eat 'decently' and it all works out in the end. I know it's popular/trendy to be fully vegetarian, etc etc, but I also don't think you need to by any means. As long as you're eating a decently varied diet, you're probably okay. That said, yeah, super sugary stuff is tough because you get blood sugar spikes and crashes, that sort of thing, vs more sustained energy.

@tomasvalve930

5 жыл бұрын

Samuel Cervantes same here!🤛😬

Im Very glad i have seen this now rather than later, thanks very much

@JustinDoesTriathlon

5 жыл бұрын

Certainly! Good luck with your race. :)

thanks

For training ride nutrition i recommend just mixing in some regular sugar and table salt into your water. Essentially the same thing as a gel besides the price.

@Mapletime

2 жыл бұрын

Or maple syrup!

What cheap bike would you recommend for multiple Half and Full Iron Man's that I plan on doing? I was thinking of a cervelo, but it's way too expensive.

It’s been driving me crazy, watching this video and I know I’ve seen that place before… at first I thought it was Tobacco Road but now I realize it’s 4-mile creek…. Grt video, your quickly drawing this marathoner to the dark side…. Hopefully on a cost efficient manner

@JustinDoesTriathlon

2 жыл бұрын

Ha, small world! Yeah, that's right on the McAlpineway greenway. Spent a loooooot of miles running back and forth there.

Hi Justin. If I got an advice here, that would be invest in a good 2nd hand TT bike and with the money you saved like that, gradually add accessories like bike computer, confortable saddle, power meter… that a way better investment TMO to a really expensive new bike with absolutely no accessories. Definitely been and still be underfueled during training, I’m working on that. Great content.keep it up

@JustinDoesTriathlon

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that's a great idea. And yes, the underfueling is a permanent struggle, isn't it?! It's so hard to nail day in and out with a job/real life.

Your example about nutrition casual mentioning an 80 mile bike ride and then 20 mile run the following day scared me…

@JustinDoesTriathlon

Жыл бұрын

That's a very normal reaction 😅

Justin, great context. The constant video cuts were extremely distracting. I challenge you to watch the video and count how may cuts are made (every 5-10 seconds?). Maybe it’s a style that others like, but I find it hard to watch. Keep up the great content.

@JustinDoesTriathlon

5 жыл бұрын

Haha, there would be a lot, I'm sure. You're definitely correct and I always appreciate the feedback. It's a difficult line between cutting out all the awkward pauses and UHs, but perhaps I went too far. I'm definitely not a "KZreadr" at heart, just trying to share what I've learned and hopefully help out. Always trying to improve though, so I will pay more attention to it! The first videos I made are downright awkward 😂😂😆. Thanks!

@JustinDoesTriathlon

3 жыл бұрын

I still struggle with this, but this was some really valuable feedback that I've tried to improve on. I appreciate you writing it down!

Yet; if you haven't made those mistakes, you wouldn't be where you are today!!

True very less people talk about money wasted most of the tri content is sponsered they just want to push out more products

@JustinDoesTriathlon

5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely correct. That was a topic I very nearly dove into but chose not to. It's in a lot of reveiwers' interest to make everything great so that they have more commission or sponsorships. I have a full time job I love and I have zero desire to make KZread a full time gig. If I don't like something, my income won't ever depend on what I say about it.

@adamhaney9447

4 жыл бұрын

@@JustinDoesTriathlon That's character, my man.

@JustinDoesTriathlon

4 жыл бұрын

@@adamhaney9447 Thanks man. I'm not about all the CHECK OUT THIS AMAZING PRODUCT 'reviews' out there. I'm not at all opposed to people making money from advertising or referral links on the whole, but whenever your review has stepped into the territory of promoting it because YOU get a check out of it, that's not cool at all. I like to keep my channel closer to like, "would I tell my best friend to get this?" essentially. I know I'm not saving the world with a product review, but I'm also not gonna sell out for $20 in referral credit either.

Totally agree about spending money on 'all the gear'. It makes me laugh when you see someone all kitted out with aero gear, to make them faster, & then they come to a complete standstill when mounting their bikes ... & even some professionals do it ... smh I think one of the other mistakes triathletes make is that they don't include practicing the full distance in their training &, therefore, struggle in the real event.

@JustinDoesTriathlon

3 жыл бұрын

For some, much easier to pull out the credit card than do the workouts. 🙃

1:55 I disagree. You say equipment helps slower riders more. That doesn't make sense to me. I propose it helps the faster riders more. wind resistence is greater at higher speeds, so the easiest way to increase speed when the problem is the wind resistance is by having less of it. when your slower the thing to do to be faster would be to forget about wind resistence and get out of the saddle and try to get power. The 10 meter distance in the rides isn't big enough for the pros because they go so fast they can still draft off of each other. A slower rider would never draft off of somebody ten meters ahead of them. Good equipment helps a faster rider psychologically as well, like how a nice computer would be appreciated more by a computer nerd than a regular person.

Hire a coach. Money well spent

Thanks!!!