Torden Multisport

Torden athletes are taking to the start lines all over the world this week. Wishing the best mechanical luck to all athletes!

Surprised from this past weekend's result at Challenge Roth with Alanis Siffert? Or perhaps over the past few years with Julie Derron at the Olympics and also Ironman? Now is a great time to go listen to all the SECRETS that have led to their success in the now ancient podcast I did with Scientific Triathlon back in 2018.

Go back even further to the successful careers of Chrissie Wellington, Daniela Ryf, Emma Snowsill, Nicola Spirig, Tim Don, James Cunnama, Siri Lindley, Caroline Steffen, Greg Bennett and so many more. At some point you have to stop asking, "What are secret workouts?" and start asking what these athletes all had in common.

There isn't one magical training session or a revolutionary philosophy. It is years of consistent development.

Too many athletes have lost sight of long-term athletic development. Too many athletes are trying to train like someone in their tenth or fifteenth year of high-level training when they've only been doing the sport seriously for two or three. They jump from one trending workout to the next, chasing FTP, VO₂max, and wonder why they plateau or break down.

The best coaches understand that you're not just preparing an athlete for their next race. You're developing someone who can tolerate more training, recover better, and become more durable year after year. That process isn't exciting, but it's what allows athletes to keep improving long after others have stalled.

The recent success of Julie Derron and Alanis Siffert isn't something that happened overnight. It's the result of years of patiently building robust athletes who can consistently absorb training at a high level.

There's a lesson in that for every age-group athlete. Stop looking for the workout that's going to change your season and start building the habits that will change the next five years. That's where the biggest gains are made.

The Trisutto Way of Triathlon Training with Carson Christen | EP#140 Carson Christen is a sport scientist and professional endurance coach with Trisutto. We discuss the Trisutto approach to triathlon training and its components, including specific aspects of swimming, biking, running, strength training and nutrition.

Most athletes are doing heat training wrong.

Somewhere along the way, athletes started believing that more heat, more suffering, and more sweat automatically meant more adaptation.

That’s not how physiology works.

Heat training adds stress on top of your existing training load. Used correctly, that stress can improve plasma volume, thermoregulation, and cardiovascular efficiency.

Used poorly?
It becomes another recovery cost.

This is where many athletes go wrong:
They finish a massive long ride or hard interval day, then pile on aggressive heat exposure because they think more stress equals more gain.

But adaptation doesn’t happen from accumulating stress alone. It happens when your body can absorb that stress and recover from it.

The goal of heat training isn’t to get as hot as possible.

The goal is to create a controlled thermal stimulus. High enough to drive adaptation. Low enough to avoid excessive systemic fatigue.

The best athletes don’t chase maximum suffering. They chase maximum adaptation with minimum unnecessary cost.

Heat training is a powerful tool.
But like every tool in performance coaching, dose matters!

Two swimmers, the same day, much different thoughts on swimming! One is deep in a block, the other is ready to race.

Swimming is probably the sport that feels the worst when you're carrying fatigue.

You can usually get through an easy run or spin on tired legs and still feel somewhat normal. In the pool, fatigue tends to show up much faster. Your stroke feels disconnected, you lose your feel for the water, and suddenly you're wondering where all your fitness went.

Before jumping to conclusions, look at the previous 3-7 days of training.

Did you just complete a hard run workout? A long ride? Several days of accumulated stress?

Triathlon is one sport. The fatigue you create in one discipline doesn't stay there. It affects how you move, coordinate, and perform across all three.

Too many athletes have one bad swim and immediately start questioning their technique or fitness. More often than not, the swim is simply exposing fatigue that's already there.

There is a time to swim fast and feel great in the water. The goal is to have those days show up when they matter most, which is close to race day, when freshness allows your fitness and confidence to come through.

One or even TWO off day(s) in the pool isn't a sign that everything is heading in the wrong direction. Sometimes it's just a reminder that training is doing exactly what it's supposed to do.

Congratulations, Ben Buechel on a fantastic season! From your first 70.3 to 140.6 and now finishing the season off with an 18min PR over 13.1 miles at the Indianapolis Half-Marathon last weekend. Already looking forward to what is on the table for next year!

Congratulations, Wendy Mehaffey on your Ironman victory on Saturday at Ironman Maryland! Wendy and I have worked together for a few years now and we are still finding ways to get faster and climb the ranks! Always exciting to work with such open minded athletes!!!

National Champion 🇺🇸
Congratulations to Riley Wrightsman for winning the Individual Pursuit at the USA Cycling Collegiate National Championships. What has been a year long goal finished with an extremely miniscule .002 second victory! After 4.5min of effort, having such a margain of victory just shows how important it is to cross every T and dot every I! Extremely proud of your hard work, dedication, and attention to details, Riley!

Congratulations to Riley Wrightsman and his Milligan University teammates for winning the Team Pursuit at the USA Collegiate Cycling National Championships in Indianapolis yesterday!

Congratulations to Claire Koeppel for her AG victory at 70.3 Sandusky this weekend. She won the 18-24 AG by a whopping 33min! And this on the back of very little run training due to a slight ni**le we've been cautious about ahead of Ironman Madison. Proud of your work, Claire; and a great stepping stone for Ironman in a few weeks!

Looking to add a couple athletes to our coaching roster. If you're looking for some help winning that Fall Ironman* or getting ready for Cyclocross season, now is the time to lock in!

If 1 on 1 coaching isn't in the cards for you, we are also offering consulting to take a look at what you've done recently in training and what one should focus on in your specific training blocks ahead.

Send us a DM on social media or email [email protected] to enquire!

*Winning Norseman has happened, but isn't a certainty 😜*