A Day In The Life Of A Professional Triathlete With Joe Skipper

have you ever wondered what a typical day looks like for a professional triathlete well you're in luck today gtn are meeting with joe skipper to see not only what training he does but what he does in his day around that training joe is an incredible athlete having finished on many ironman podiums including a sixth place finish at the ironman world championships in 2019. we're meeting up with him the day after the zed pro tri-race on zwift to tag along and get an insight into a pro triathlete's life and day-to-day routine hello how are you doing so joe what's in store for today um so gonna have my breakfast and then head out on a three-hour ride uh just steady pace after last night so no intervals probably around 200 watts what are you having now then for breakfast so i've got like a fruit com pot in there it's frozen at the moment so just chuck it in the microwave then put some coconut yogurt some granola and yeah maybe a bit of honey on top granola's making appearance again an hour like that was absolutely [Music] horrendous [Music] do you like to walk your dogs in your cycling gear uh no yeah i'd be honest i normally do come over in it because i'm normally like before i go out and i'm like i'll just like as soon as i take him i just head out but the people over here probably think it's my normal clothes she doesn't like the bad weather she doesn't like bad weather when it's raining it's really hard to get her to go and leave the house yeah she's like going there and she's thinking what are we doing i put my garment on a dog over here once you just see it like to see how fast yeah yeah because it was like really fast like it was around i haven't seen it since uh she was at eaton park and it hit 28 miles an hour that's pretty quick in it so he goes in there and cause the trouble and she goes backing him up [Music] it gets covered in this one [Music] so as the weather's not that great today i'm gonna go on the gravel bike if it was uh dry and a bit sunnier i'd go on the time trial bike and uh just practice in the tc position but yeah for an easy ride in bad weather gravel bikes uh the one for the job [Music] so [Music] um [Music] well if we get out today you know what josh is like uh gonna head to a place called dirham head up towards the coast and then uh stop in halt for a coffee if they're open and then back hopefully avoiding the rain as we go so how long uh probably about three hours is that usual yeah that'd be pretty standard wouldn't it like on a on a thursday like around three hours josh wanted to try what a decent see what a decent bike was like yeah definitely so i let him borrow my light speed he's not used to riding something of that caliber did you get your key out the front door yeah i didn't realize it was in there see in a bit it's getting dropped already [Music] camera's out so he's setting the pace [Music] uh right turn here right boys just uh talking about other races yeah we're just smacking another athlete we just smack talking other athletes uh we're in halt just drinking coffee eating cakes [Laughter] uh yeah over halfway so we're done two hours and uh we went a long way here and it's about an hour back maybe just over an hour so we've done the bulk of the ride i think the power was about 228 watts on the way here and it was about 29 kilometers an hour 28 and a half but it's been a headwind so on the way back we'll probably average 32 33 k's now but yeah steady pace we haven't done any intervals or anything what's sort of like the idea of this ride i mean are you trying to get a training benefit uh just survive getting half-wheeled by uh josh yeah now it's just a steady ride so yeah you want to get a training benefit because you want to put like some steady aerobic miles in and obviously after last night where we did the zwift race it was really intense so you don't really want to do any hard efforts today because you want to you want to recover but you obviously still want to get some training in so it's about just not going too hard and um yeah just going at the right intensity and um so we're doing about three hours a day what's kind of like the longest you would do for this sort of ride for four hours like would be the longest i'd go like on a thursday during the week probably and that would be like after i'd done quite a bit of training maybe if it was like um yeah i was a bit further down down the line when we're training a bit better how important is a coffee store oh really important we have one nearly all the time don't we on these on these rides yeah i mean uh i think it's i think it's good like in the winter it's like spices it up a bit i mean in the summer when you're getting closer to a racing you might you obviously wouldn't have as many um but during the winter definitely like of all the time [Music] okay so um yeah my name is josh holman um i'm an age group athlete uh kind of aspiring professional um yeah just getting out for a ride with joe today i moved to the area sort of a few weeks ago been in contact with joe and yeah he very kindly offered to let me kind of tag along and train with him so i've been training together now for the last few weeks um really coming along nicely so the aim is to kind of build into 2021 now and see where we go from there try and try and get your pro license don't you try and get the pro license that's the goal what's it like training with joe yeah you normally rip your legs off um if you're lucky um but no it's really good uh joe is really knowledgeable um so we do a lot a lot of variety in our sessions um it's nice we kind of we both kind of plan sessions which is pretty good so you can get plenty of variety and lots of quality lots of um coffee stops which is always good um yeah so it's really enjoyable having someone else to train with and share the pain how much do i owe you for that uh at least um joe got a good chat uh yeah today today's chat has been all about um stock market so um yeah that's that's probably why i was uh halfway with him for so long um just to stay a little bit ahead now he's got good chat though and he's also got very good uh music taste usually we've got some uh club lang bangers going or or something of that uh genre and um i mean joe's known for being pretty pretty hardcore actually i mean is it is it as hard as everyone lays on training with him yeah i think the first session we did together was a track session and it was um something like 10 by 600 like almost like well for me it was like a max effort off short recoveries and then straight out for a four hour ride straight after so yeah it's not chilled out unless we're having a coffee stop though or a lunch at a cafe or lunch at the cafe how was it it was all right actually like about 40 minutes in it chopped it down and i thought bloody hell what we let ourselves in for but yeah it went too bad was it no it's fine how does that work what's the plan now then so plan now put the bikes away have some food chill out for a bit and then either go for a swim or a run um we haven't actually spoken about but um this time of season so you've had a bit of time off so yeah it's slightly different right through your training room yeah so it's just a bit easier just building up gradually like um not like i mean i had three weeks off and uh up until then i'd been a bit fatigued and stuff for about three or four weeks so i've just got into the swing of things so doing like not as many hours as i would when i'm like full fitness but trying to take like three weeks on and then probably a week a little bit easier not too like not massively easier but and then when i get back into the train the next three weeks a little bit more volume uh and just build up really look into being like maybe do a race in march time and then ideally build up to like challenge rock or something in july where i'll be like really on top on full for full fitness [Music] do you uh get straight advice uh i have been lately yeah like like literally going in and getting changed and stuff and then i'll come back out and put it in like oil if you ask any of my friends they'll probably tell you i'm talking but honestly i have been cleaning it the last three times i'm not just saying that for the flip flop and here josh actually said that he was going to take that one over and clean it didn't you i'm going to take you clean up for you you can take that one home and clean it up if you're watching you need any tips just uh get in contact with gtm to get more details so what kind of stuff would you usually have for lunch it's an average day something with like some try and get like some vegan uh to get some greens in and some protein definitely so like normally like eggs or something like that maybe chicken um falafel is a good one um and then yeah either a salad or some veg and some nuts and stuff and then depending on how hard the training is like some carbs so uh today i'll have like some quinoa sometimes it might be like if i have bread it might be like a nice sourdough or something like that but yeah just just mix it up really like over the course of a week so we're gonna head to uh a park called eaton park and um it kind of borders on to a load of trails and it's about eight miles if you go around the perimeter so we're going to go there and probably do about 10k something like that 45 minutes um just at an easy pace getting the miles in uh on some hilly terrain so you usually doing a bike in a brand moment yeah like all the pools are um shot at the moment because we're in lockdown so um you can't really get a proper session in um i have got an endless pool at the moment but because our garden's not big enough to set my um girlfriend's parents and it's about 25 minutes to go to get there so i go there like twice a week something like that at the moment maybe free on like a good week um just to get like a bit of technique in and to keep the feel for the water about predominantly biking and running at the moment yeah yeah i'm gonna do like 8k with uh hair dropping i'll put mine in the car i was gonna wear it yeah i got it on these ones right then you all ready then all right mate you ready he's always ready he was born ready weren't you yeah all right so we'll head over this way part of your run routine yeah restroom stop all right he's done yeah so what sort of pace we run out for the easier ones um normally about 4 30 4 40 on like on this terrain like where it's like a bit off-road unless you feel really good and then it might be like as quick as like 4 20 or 4 15 but it's mainly like just what feels like an easy taste so not really like conversational yeah i like chatting when you're going around yeah because i'm here you decided you won't it's all serious it's all business we know it's going to go on uh internet so we're like we've got around a bit quicker 330k on our easy runs you know because we take it easy so we can chat and then uh under about 250. [Music] tell me about this uh this little niggle you've had um so i got it from similar to what i had the other year and it's like in my hip a bit i mean it's all right at the moment um but i have really as soon as i got it i've kind of like eased right off to make sure i don't get it any worse but i think i went a bit too deep doing some squats and uh did something to my hip i'm not entirely sure what but i'm just gonna take it easy for a little while with the sessions until it feels good and then i'll get back in on it so this is like a bit of a test run is it alright yeah it feels fine it feels fine at the moment but i want to give it a decent amount of time i'm feeling fine before i do a session and because there's no need to hurry up because i'm building up the march and there's no point risking it and then end up taking like two or three months before you can get back into proper training [Music] joe cracking day training thanks ever so much um i mean we're going to leave you in peace now because we've been following around and nagging you all day um so what are you gonna have for dinner um so i've got a sausage casserole which i had uh the other day and slow cooked uh sausage casserole with some mashed potatoes to go with a classic british meal classic british mate maybe we should stay good um but yeah i mean that's a like pretty standard day's training not a crazy hard day obviously just starting back what have you got planned tomorrow um so tomorrow i'll probably do a gym set where i will do a gym session with my friend ross and then i'll do an easy run again probably about 45 minutes a steady pace and then maybe a bike ride uh because obviously i'm not swimming at the moment normally on a friday i would go for a swim in a run in the gym so i might do the bike ride but that will just be an hour easy again and then saturday's more intense day so saturday is a hard track session and a bike session with like tempo threshold efforts in so saturday's a really intense day i mean out of interest um you sort of touched on the suing obviously things are kind of you're probably trying to adjust things as you go a little bit and learning with like the lack of assuming like what tips would you give to people with the lack of swimming what are you doing so what i'm doing so when we go to the gym we're doing more upper body weights and stuff so like lap pull downs um some trying to use the muscle groups that we would in the swim and then um also as well as the standard gym stuff what you do you know deadlifts um and uh some balanced stuff for the running but yeah trying to use the muscle groups that we would into women also doing some body weight stuff so pull ups and press-ups as well so that kind of thing and then i am trying to go to the endless pool like a couple of times a week just to get work on technique mainly and do a lot of yeah a bit of a luxury i guess isn't it yeah yeah so the main thing is the gym really just using the muscle groups and then hopefully get back in the water on like the 2nd december when everything should open up fingers crossed awesome well joe it's been fabulous and i've i've really enjoyed hanging around with you today so um yeah thank you ever so much and i hope you guys have enjoyed today's video if so please do give it a like and don't forget to give us a follow over on social media or subscribe just down below cheers thanks guys

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Length: 18min 7sec (1087 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 28 2020