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TJ Tollakson
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เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 4 ก.พ. 2020
TJ Tollakon is the OG Dimond Bikes owner and the accomplished CEO of Ruster Sports. Tollakson began racing in 2001 and proved himself a force to be reckoned with on the bike course. He was made even faster with the first rendition of the Dimond bike in 2013. TJ is a proud husband and father to 3 children. You can find him pounding the pavement of Des Moines, Iowa or tinkering with his newest idea at the Dimond Bikes headquarters.
TJ has 10 Ironman podium finishes under his belt, with his favorite being his Mont Tremblant victory. After a bumpy road filled with surgeries and numerous setbacks, TJ used this race to prove he is at his prime and leads the pack. The boss continues to accomplish great things. His latest accolade is an IM PR of 8:04:17 at IM Arizona.
TJ has 10 Ironman podium finishes under his belt, with his favorite being his Mont Tremblant victory. After a bumpy road filled with surgeries and numerous setbacks, TJ used this race to prove he is at his prime and leads the pack. The boss continues to accomplish great things. His latest accolade is an IM PR of 8:04:17 at IM Arizona.
TJ's Tips For Offseason Triathlon Training.
What is your plan to kick start your 2025 race season? How will you put yourself in a better place to perform than you did this past season?
With only a couple of Ironman races left in North America, most of you have likely started to focus on the offseason. But what does that mean? What should you be doing? Do you take a vacation for a week? Do you take a month off from training? What are you going to eat? How much should you be on your bike in the winter?
There are so many factors to consider when you think about your offseason training. A huge part of the offseason is for recovery, but how easy should you take it. This week I will give you my best tips, from over 15 years of experience on the triathlon circuit. I'll explain why you should NOT be running and why you should be in the pool as much as possible. I'll help you navigate the holidays. You don't have to give up your traditional Christmas dinner or drinks on New Years, but you do have to consider how easy it is to age weight and how hard it can be to shed that weight as race season approaches.
Did I mention you should be in the pool, a lot!
A lot of athletes don't like to swim, but I'll give you the reasons why swimming is the best offseason workout. So follow along and hopefully you'll learn a thing or two that will put you steps ahead of where you started the last race season when the 2025 races kickoff.
With only a couple of Ironman races left in North America, most of you have likely started to focus on the offseason. But what does that mean? What should you be doing? Do you take a vacation for a week? Do you take a month off from training? What are you going to eat? How much should you be on your bike in the winter?
There are so many factors to consider when you think about your offseason training. A huge part of the offseason is for recovery, but how easy should you take it. This week I will give you my best tips, from over 15 years of experience on the triathlon circuit. I'll explain why you should NOT be running and why you should be in the pool as much as possible. I'll help you navigate the holidays. You don't have to give up your traditional Christmas dinner or drinks on New Years, but you do have to consider how easy it is to age weight and how hard it can be to shed that weight as race season approaches.
Did I mention you should be in the pool, a lot!
A lot of athletes don't like to swim, but I'll give you the reasons why swimming is the best offseason workout. So follow along and hopefully you'll learn a thing or two that will put you steps ahead of where you started the last race season when the 2025 races kickoff.
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Worth mentioning the amazing frames from C4, such as the Joker which was a beam bike and the crono with the weird one size fits all.
Trying to say triathlon is clean looks hopelessly naive. Testing clearly isn't working. Almost nobody gets caught. It really devalues the sport.
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Swimming? Ugh. I hate swimming. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
This channel has the quality of content that should have 100k+ subscribers.
I look forward to running twice a week….as soon as I finish the Disney marathon in jan 😂. If I don’t get injured ha. Looks like for me off season will be 3-4 swims, 3 gyms, 2 runs, and 2 bikes.
Great video!
Thank you, TJ, for the recommendations; they will be very helpful for the upcoming IRONMAN
Thanks TJ. Love your videos I’ll add off season is a great time to loose weight (if you need and can). I am a heavier Triathlete and haven’t wanted to loose weight in the season for a fear of under eating for my training load. (Getting hurt more and not absorbing training). In the off season weekly volume is low so eat less.
Exactly what I needed. Thanks for the tips
My off season has been all about eating and getting fat 😂😂
Plus, swimming is bad-ass
Great advice!
Mouth Watering! Maybe someday...
Quitting coffee is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. So the bad news is that you don't have parachute, but the good news is that you discover there is no ground. And then you're just endlessly falling and you never reach the ground. So in a sense, what i'm asking you to do is to jump. And you don't want to jump. You're saying, I'm scared. I'm too scared to jump. And I'm saying, jump. God is telling you, jump, jump into infinite love and it's going to be great. But you're like, what if I kill myself and what if something else happens? I don't know. You just jump into infinite love. Take the leap of faith and you'll discover infinite love. And you're too scared to do it. But then eventually when you do it, then you're just going to discover that there's no ground. You're endlessly falling forever and it's great. But yeah, taking that leap is really difficult. It requires you to face your death. So of course, everybody is too afraid to do it. People are just to scared.
What glue did you use for the flakes? Looks flippen good💪🏻💪🏻
Love it all❤
It looks like the guys to benifit the most might be those riding gravel bikes with no front derailleur.
i watched several videos regarding this topic from GTN and other big names - this video is the best so far! thank you guys.
Thanks, that's a very useful video.
Noice bike 👌🏿🙂↔️👌🏿
Biggest dopers in Ironman are the Age Group Athletes …. Zero testing, lots of huge egos and many with cash to burn.
Picture you show of the first doper in 68 is David Hemery.....don't think he'll be very happy with you!😂
Sadly I feel like it’s part of the sport and sport in general. Coming from baseball and football there is a pretty high amount of accepted drug use
The Olympics and Ironman Are Full of Cheaters and Dopers....but Soccer is perfectly clean. Some hard fact for you: Triathlon is the cleanest sport of all compared to doping effectiveness and number of athletes. Go drop your hate elsewhere
If they didn't take drugs nobody would watch the sport and no records would be broken
@leslie7922 the sport has lost popularity as athletes have gotten faster. We had a long window of very rare records with very old performances leading the pack. The sport was even more popular then. *Yes, they were still doping, they just weren't as good as Mark Allen and Dave Scott
What percent have TUEs?
We know many have doped. But I think we should give them the benefit of the doubt.
Bike aero positioning and frame could account for 15 to 20 minutes. Super shoes maybe 7 minutes.
It actually doesn’t seem like you listed very many people at all that have been Caught doping in this sport. How many was that that you named so it doesn’t seem that prevalent even though a lot of age groupers complain about other age groupers speed.
Know what also is scientifically proven to spike testosterone naturally? Doing the cold plunge for three minutes or more at a time 3 to 5 days a week or another great way to spike your testosterone by dropping your insulin levels is by fasting. Of course, fasting potentially means less calories to most people, but that is not true in the case of intermittent. This is all science based stuff with thousands of studies to back it up. So should we ban before races? I know that’s a stupid question and it’s not actually a question but I’m trying to make. Things that spike testosterone should be considered doping.
Sub 9 hrs In 50-54 AG in Kona this year?! Great weather, but c’mon man.
@keithschumann4859 never had a tailwind for +8hrs of an out and back? 😅
Biggest group of dopers in the sport is the AG’ers. Big egos with cash to burn. And ZERO testing. Doesn’t suit Ironman commercial model To test AG Athletes because they’ll chase them all away.
This is giving 8th grade presentation. I’m here for it
Steve Larsen's Kona bike time in 2002, in the really bad windy conditions. A little suspicious.
no, i've been assured that it's the europeans who dope. when americans win without testing, it's because they ate their wheaties and recited the pledge of allegiance.
Triathletes dope!!! Especially age groupers and a bunch of pros.
Hi TJ. Silly question maybe, but Are those hand grips on your cow horns aero?
Those Ironman world champions wouldn’t need to dope if they were just riding that Diamond bike!
Listen to Joe skippers podcast where he explains Rodriguez dropped out injured just before a race only to lodge mammoth training sessions the next day. Sure does look like he knew he would fail a pi$$ test
Patrick Lange just crushed everyone and didn't even look tired...
Hussein Bolt didn't look tired too. Does Messi look tired after a 90min soccer game?
@@bluesparrow-hx5qf those aren't the good examples you think they are
@@TheTrailRabbit and you will tell me why, because otherwise your argument is exactly what?
I agree, but let’s not forget times are getting faster again because there is a new generation having growing up with Garmin Devices, heartrate zones and better training methodology.
I was at Sydney 2000 and watched the biggest fraud bar none, 4 if not 5 of the medalists were on the gear. The worst exponent was Bridgette McMahon, if anyone was paying attention saw her results in 99 suddenly rocket uo at 33 years of age, Vukovic had to stop the sport because of a condition, not before confessing to years of epo use. Nicola Spirig though takes the biscuit, hardly competed in 2016, had a wrist injury and a baby, rocks up and nearly wins gold (look at Gwen Jorgenson's reaction) that's like me not competing all year in cycling, no races and I come a close 2nd, come on people, stop believing triathlon is clean, 2004, Kate Allen, 2008, Vanessa Fernandes on and on it goes.
Over half the field is on the hot sauce. 16 guys went sub 8 at Kona! Testing is a joke and you'd be dumb not to take EPO.
The best testing can't catch the best dopers. It's not for a lack of effort. It's easier to take things that bypass tests than test for substances there aren't tests for yet
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Once a cyclist gets past 15kmh the biggest impediment to performance is wind resistance. The amount of technology change over the past 5 years to combat that is insane. Guys who were racing 10 years ago - and now - will tell you that the power output hasn’t changed that much - and probably is on par with what the likes of Stadler and Leito were putting out 20 years ago. Similarly carbon plated shoes are worth 5 minutes for a typical pro Ironman athlete. Take out the technology gains and there is nothing more remarkable than what Mark and Dave did back in 1989. Only there is a dozen - or more - guys now as capable of doing that on their day. 300W NP rides and 2:50 marathons in carbon plated shoes isn’t that special when looked at in that light. Certainly not a ‘canary in the coal mine’ evidence of wide spread doping.
@andrewmetcalfe9898 diminishing returns as people get better. But guys are racing a lot these days and racing fast. That's a canary in the coal mine. Bikes are tricky to account for without knowing everyone's exact CDA. But running is easier to guage and they're running very fast and very fast runners aren't rare anymore. *I'm confident Dave and Mark could keep up with the top guys today with modern equipment, even without modern training methods. The difference is that there would maybe be 10 guys that could beat them if they had an outstanding day and Dave and Mark had an average day. They were the only people capable of competing with one another back then because they were superior athletes and there was no depth in the sport.
@ A little bit of inside info. Back in early 2004 Norman Stadler came to Australia for a 2 month training block with Mark Newton - a mate of mine and Peter Robertson’s coach (3 time ITU WC and dual Olympian). Norman was sponsored by Nestle (via their power bar brand) and Mark was working with Nestle athletes at the time including Norman. Before coming to Australia Norman was invited to attend the T-Mobile pro tour team training camp in Majorca. He did a lot of testing with both T-mobile on camp and with mark in Australia. mark was also privy to Norman’s numbers for 2003 - when he finished 4th in Hawaii with the fast bike split. Norman went on to win Hawaii that year and in 2006. His average power for his 4.17 record bike split in 2006 would have been on par with what Laidlow did last weekend for his 3:57 record. So there is that. You are 100% spot on about depth in the sport. There are obvious reasons for that. ‘Back in the day’ Mark and Dave effectively invented the standard for the professional sport. They did so largely by combining their collegiate level swim back ground (so already they were at a high level in that discipline) with Maffete philosophy run training based on heart rate (so still the gold standard all these years later). They did not have access to power metres - something that Mark has often referenced as the biggest technological change as a training aid since he has retired. This explains why both their swim standards and run splits still hold up as good benchmarks 35 years later. But not their bike splits. These days there are probably 100 junior triathletes world wide coming into World Triathlon elite racing every year. 10 years later something like 10 or so per year survive that system and graduate into middle distance and long course triathlon and each of these athletes are as genetically gifted as mark and Dave were back in the day. In addition to those World Triathlon alumni there are also one or two athletes with a limited or non existent World Triathlon background who are as gifted as Mark and dave who do straight into long course racing (ie. the Sanders, Longs, Ditlevs and Laidlows of the sport). Each of those guys can be expected to race long course for between 5-10 years at the highest levels. That’s like having 100 Mark and Daves on the long course circuit right there. Especially with TWO long course series carrying around $5 million in total prize money each, bonus pools and contract fees and about 100 other 2nd and third tier pro races as well.
Very easy for these guys to micro dose.
It’s one of a few keys to successful doping
Question. What is the value proposition of diamond bikes, and why should someone buy one over a mainstream competitor such as Trek, Cervelo, or Canyon?
-People have different physiology - length of each limb, trunk, etc. For some, Dimond may be the best fit -They're made for triathlon specifically, unlike the bikes of brands that sell mostly to non-triathlon cyclists who need UCI-legal frames (not affiliated with Dimond bikes).
The lack of a seat post makes the bike very aero.
Pretty simple way to even the playing field. Make it all legal.
Great report TJ , Keep up the good work, ALEC Rukosuev
Do you guys have youth size bikes??
Nice bike btw
Long time no see!!
Dopers always believe everyone is doping, that's how the huma mind excuses wrong doing.