Fasted Workouts for Triathletes

[@BikepackingJourney]

Well. Fasted cheatsheet is not available anymore

[@UmbrellaWellness]

I have been following you since I started training for my first triathlon about a year ago. I watched one of the old videos, and you are looking more like a professional triathlete that an age grouper who does KZbin videos now. I just wanted to share that observation with you. Keep up the personal growth.

[@TriathlonTaren]

Not sure what you want me to take from that... I shouldn't keep trying to improve? Not gonna happen, sorry!

[@UmbrellaWellness]

Triathlon Taren I was just saying that you physically look like a professional triathlete. You carry yourself like a professional triathlete. I have noticed your growth over the last couple of years, and I wanted to commend you on your progress. Keep developing physically, and developing your knowledge base. Like someone else commented, you have obviously been doing your research and developing your subject matter expertise. Keep up the good work on making yourself better in all aspects of triathlon; physical, mental, coaching, mentoring.

[@irongrl]

Good information! This explains what happened to me when I did a ton of fasted training in 2004 and ended up sick and had a bad stress fracture that set me back for months. I didn't know anything about the connection between hormones and fasted training at that time.

[@KingLifeTale]

Fantastic video T!! You may have just motivated Me to do my second faster run this week!!

[@stefanweilhartner4415]

yes, boost AMPK/PGC-1Alpha while keeping cortisol low. i would like to have a freestyle libre that can also measure cortisol in real time

[@clayowens4176]

I kno a little cortisol is good ... but with my stress and doing endurance...i want to try those new otc cortisol blockers and see what happens! Especially in pre contest doing intense trainning

[@stefanweilhartner4415]

​@@clayowens4176 but in this situations you need the function of cortisol. the body does not do anything wrong. i would rather use protein shakes and additionally a lot of glycine and a bit of nac or msm​. with this you might prevent your body from eating itself.

[@sandymann5056]

Very informative. Going to try this out. :)

[@Peter-ri9ie]

How did it go?

[@Baby75xx]

great video very informative

[@jackiegerwitz-dunn4046]

Awesome Taren! Information=power.

[@danielromeroposada2875]

Pro tip for next time Taren: you've clearly researched a lot on this, so you shouldn't say "my opinion". Instead just say it's what you've come up with based on the research you've done! Keep doing a great job 👌

[@beng2384]

He says that to keep the OMG KETO boys at bay, theyll probably still get angry though.

[@RunninBird]

I'd love it down the road if you could put links or pubmed IDs up so some of the more nerdy among us can dig into the research. What I've read pretty much aligns with your experience/reading.

[@VanLifeTriathlon]

From what I’ve seen the top pros do fasted workouts some mornings. However they work hard to be fat adapted while also being able to stomach +100g carbs/hour.

[@TriathlonTaren]

Yep -- you do stomach training, which I'm doing righ tnow.

[@nanditajoshi2287]

How many hours of fasting you recommend

[@Steven-ig8wp]

Great vid as always. You may have been asked this already but what are the black canvas looking items on your walls? Not the TV's.

[@fifthcircle1]

I'm guessing they are acoustic tiles. Helps kill the echo for his recording.

[@TriathlonTaren]

Exactly, they're just for absorbing the echo.

[@scottheitmanmarinesurvey3557]

Taren I just had a thought. I was pretty tired after my 5 hour fasted ride. I started to get that ol "im about to hit the wall" feeling we all know and love. I never did hit the wall . The thought occurred to me is why did I feel this way? im fat adapted, I used up my glycogen stores during my first hour doing a tempo HiiT, so why didn't the ketones not just carry me on for ever? Well, may be my liver just cant produce enough of em fast enough. Do you think that taking a small amount of exogenous ketones, say a table spoon every couple hours would let me perform forever? Just a thought. Gonna try that my next 5 hour plus ride.

[@TriathlonTaren]

Be very careful. There's no way to perform "forever".

[@triathlon9045]

Taren I tried to get the link triathlontaren/fastedcheatsheet nothing nada nowt, nichts, rein computer says no.

[@TriathlonTaren]

yeah, because you forgot the .com. triathlontaren.com/fastedcheatsheet

[@triathlon9045]

Doh!!!@@TriathlonTaren

[@IronWill]

I found training fasted had helped me burn more fat - and get me closer to my race weight! (I stated a fair bit overweight!)

[@jackandcanon563]

The Pro-Triathlete who had issues with underperforming sounds a lot like Lionel Sanders...

[@karstenmeinders4844]

My 2 cents: - cold exposure is good to active your brown fat and might keept you away from catching a cold in the long term- do low intensity workouts in a fasted mode or at least do not eat or dring food while training (Long or recovery workouts) but make sure you get proteins and carbohydrates after your training.- do high intensity workouts in a well-fed mode. Make sure you get enough proteins to repair any damages after your training.

[@marktimmins7969]

would you do a T26 A session as a fasted workout?

[@adamexercises9080]

After I fueled high intensity workout, why does waiting 2 hours for your next meal increase HGH?

[@danielpowers531]

Absolutely fascinated by this stuff, thanks for the info Taren! Definitely going to try a my first fasted workout this week.

[@MrPerrie111]

If I do a Z2 swim over lunch fasted and plan to do a Z2 run after work a couple of hours later, can I stay fasted for the run or should I fuel up?

[@trepidati0n533]

Not sure where you are on this still....but I pretty much do this. Operate in a fasted way in general (8/16). Do your long run/bike or any easy workout just before you break fast. On hard things...do them after you break fast. Hope this helps a bit.

[@marblsy2181]

So... I do pretty much all my training fasted (mostly running, biking), may it be intervals or long runs/bikes. And so far (6 months) I have noticed 0 difference. Not in my performances, nor regarding energy levels/injuries. First I noticed that I can push myself through workouts fasted was way back when I was still into weightlifting. Not sure if I should worry about it now :/

[@defeqel6537]

Well yeah, it really shouldn't affect injuries at all, might recover from them a bit faster though. Carbs usually do give you a bit more oomph for HIIT, but that might be just about adaptation.

[@b1650514]

Sounds like me to keep things mixed up, and not alow the body to get to adaptive to any one routine.

[@fionamilligan2525]

So who was the pro guys? Anyone know?

[@vincentslusser9205]

Probably Lionel Sanders and Chris Froome

[@scottheitmanmarinesurvey3557]

5 hour fasted ride after 18 hours no food. feel great.

[@joemoya9743]

Why is it that every time anyone goes to your site and uses the link you describe to get information... you are required to subsribe ... verify your email? Wouldn't it be easier and make more sense that you should only subscribe once and verify you e-mail also - only once. Seems not only redundant but unnecessary to subscribe each and every time you to to link.

[@TriathlonTaren]

Because not everyone wants every single thing I offer. And the email verification is for your own security so you don't get subscribed to 100s of things you don't want.

[@zachyman33]

My guess is that the athlete he talks about is Patrick Lange (?)

[@zekehorton8545]

Hmm I thought lionel..

[@zachyman33]

@@zekehorton8545 that's definitely it. Forgot about that!

[@bklon6107]

@@zachyman33 I thought Lionel just switched to vegan? This was suspected in the video for his training block for Kona 2018. Did it also get uncovered he just wasn't eating much in the morning? Totally possible, I just missed this.

[@peacefulbuddha8361]

In my limited experience, everything TT said was good advice. I tried 16/8 intermittent fasting for 4 days in a row with all four workouts being over an hour and pushing myself to find out how much I could do and not changing my low fat diet. Ended up with a skin condition flare up from 5 years ago, feeling incredibly depleted of energy even after starting to eat normally again and getting some pretty stiff joints to boot. IMO, fasting during recovery workouts to train the body to burn fat while fueling during tough workouts is great but going beyond this may leave you more negative results than positive.

[@EricGlenn]

Excellent, Excellent. Thank you for the ideas and guidance. I've been like a 🚢 ship without a keel doing my fasts in the past... For like 50 years, so not a real long time.. 👴 This gives me new purpose fasting and helps with healthy fasting too, whatever the reason.

[@scottheitmanmarinesurvey3557]

lol chris froome

[@devidia]

Interesting, but keep the anekdotes out of it (for example the one about the athlete who wasn't hungry and did all his workouts fasted). They are not relevant and give a false sense of proof.