To begin new vlogging platform of three days a week. He himself acknowledged the content was getting a little watered down. I’ve actually noticed that since he
did the haters video it’s gotten really bland. He’s had a couple product reviews that weren’t very interesting and a trip to Specialized Headquarters. I haven’t seen anything on training recently. I’ve been expecting an update on the keto experiment, but nothing has been discussed which is strange. I’m not sure if he abandoned that altogether and I missed it, or if there’s some other reason for the silence. He
did note his performance was lagging badly, so I’m wondering what happened.
I don’t follow Taren but I also wouldn’t be surprised if he just bit off more than he can he chew. For most professional triathletes it is one of the worst sports to pick from a balance perspective. It takes far too much time to train, recover, eat, sleep properly and then to either work on a building a triathlon brand or to continue your current obligations if you are a well-sponsored athlete. As an advancing age-group triathlete it is hard to focus on what you should be doing as an athlete when you are having to waste effort for the camera doing superfluous movements. I think someone mentioned he was retaining water??? Probably messing up his hormones/cortisol levels and regressing and makes sense to lighten the load.
It would be incredibly difficult to be good at triathlon and also a frequent youtuber that creates and edits most of your own content. You could be a crappy triathlete and “just wing it” through some races on occasion, but you need to be sleeping instead of making and posting videos. I’ve tried… it’s nearly impossible to do both. He’s set his sights on improving, which is majorly counterproductive to making frequent vids.
To begin new vlogging platform of three days a week. He himself acknowledged the content was getting a little watered down. I’ve actually noticed that since he
did the haters video it’s gotten really bland. He’s had a couple product reviews that weren’t very interesting and a trip to Specialized Headquarters. I haven’t seen anything on training recently. I’ve been expecting an update on the keto experiment, but nothing has been discussed which is strange. I’m not sure if he abandoned that altogether and I missed it, or if there’s some other reason for the silence. He
did note his performance was lagging badly, so I’m wondering what happened.
Aren’t you not a fan of his? Seems like you follow him quite closely for someone who’s not a fan…
He posted an update about a week ago and stated he was having difficulty with the Plews experiment (paraphrasing). He was up 6lbs and was monitoring things closely.
As for the vlog change, I wondered if he’s seen a drop in viewership per video over the last couple months? I know that I don’t watch nearly as much as I did a year or so ago, and I have to think that now that he has other streams of income / interaction through his training platform, that his efforts may be better placed elsewhere.
I think he is smart to reassess and get more focused about what he’s putting out on YouTube… What he decides to target and who he wants to focus on, will be interesting.
To begin new vlogging platform of three days a week. He himself acknowledged the content was getting a little watered down. I’ve actually noticed that since he
did the haters video it’s gotten really bland. He’s had a couple product reviews that weren’t very interesting and a trip to Specialized Headquarters. I haven’t seen anything on training recently. I’ve been expecting an update on the keto experiment, but nothing has been discussed which is strange. I’m not sure if he abandoned that altogether and I missed it, or if there’s some other reason for the silence. He
did note his performance was lagging badly, so I’m wondering what happened.
Aren’t you not a fan of his? Seems like you follow him quite closely for someone who’s not a fan…
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Wasn’t Mel doing all of his editing?
Looks like his training platform idea worked according to the video. Currently has 400 paying athletes. His platform costs $42 ($CAD 57)/month. Kind of a weird number, 57 bucks. I like round numbers personally. So I guess he’s hit the point where he’s sustainable depending on his P&L.
He may not be posting daily vids but he sure as heck hasn’t reduced the kooky claims. Today he said his running coach who he has only been working with for a number of weeks has cut 20 seconds per k off his time at the same heart rate!!
OMG… Imagine being able to easily go from 4min ks down to 3:40 with just a simple technique change… Where do I send my money??
He may not be posting daily vids but he sure as heck hasn’t reduced the kooky claims. Today he said his running coach who he has only been working with for a number of weeks has cut 20 seconds per k off his time at the same heart rate!!
OMG… Imagine being able to easily go from 4min ks down to 3:40 with just a simple technique change… Where do I send my money??
I can do Venmo or paypal. Send me your money and I’ll tell you how.
Lose 5lbs. I take paypal.
Lose 5lbs. I take paypal.
You did it wrong.
FIRST you take the money, THEN you give the advice.
Lose 5lbs. I take paypal.
If only it was as simple as loosing 5lbs… 
I think its a great idea. 3 high quality videos a week is better than 7 a week, some of which are forced and/or repetitive.
He may not be posting daily vids but he sure as heck hasn’t reduced the kooky claims. Today he said his running coach who he has only been working with for a number of weeks has cut 20 seconds per k off his time at the same heart rate!!
OMG… Imagine being able to easily go from 4min ks down to 3:40 with just a simple technique change… Where do I send my money??
Taren typically leaves out information to make his claims sound better.
I suspect the 20 seconds faster refers to his easy run pace (not race pace). I’ve experienced the same thing where my easy run pace (at 135bpm) fell from 5m20s down to 5m00s (per km). My 5km race initially stayed the same at 3m45s. But over time the better quality training runs allowed me to log more mileage and my 5km pace dropped to 3m40s.
I think its a great idea. 3 high quality videos a week is better than 7 a week, some of which are forced and/or repetitive.
Agree 100%. What he was trying to do was completely unsustainable.
With one of the videos being News Day Tuesday (which I assume doesn’t take a lot of time), he only has to do 2 other videos a week.
Taren has recovery every 3rd week. Perfect time to bank 5 or 6 videos to be released over the next weeks.
**He posted an update about a week ago and stated he was having difficulty with the Plews experiment (paraphrasing). He was up 6lbs and was monitoring things closely. **
Not commenting on Taren specifically, but the whole keto thing has to STOP!
I have no idea how people got it in their heads that this could be in any way helpful for hard training endurance sports athletes.
I have specifically reached out to some of the top people in Canada in Sports Nutrition (on the research dietary side not the product side) and, they have told me straight-up, it essentially does not work, the way they are positioning it. Research is on-going, and it is finding some INTERESTING but inconclusive results - but this is lab research, highly controlled research studies, being done by legit experts in the area, with athletes - not some random dude, saying, “try keto . . worked for me”.
Pretty much my thoughts. Any diet with a name is a gimmick. Just eat a healthy, well balanced diet.
It’s odd that he gained weight since the premise was to lose weight and use fat stores for glycogen in long endurance efforts. Looks like it backfired.
**He posted an update about a week ago and stated he was having difficulty with the Plews experiment (paraphrasing). He was up 6lbs and was monitoring things closely. **
Not commenting on Taren specifically, but the whole keto thing has to STOP!
I have no idea how people got it in their heads that this could be in any way helpful for hard training endurance sports athletes.
I have specifically reached out to some of the top people in Canada in Sports Nutrition (on the research dietary side not the product side) and, they have told me straight-up, it essentially does not work, the way they are positioning it. Research is on-going, and it is finding some INTERESTING but inconclusive results - but this is lab research, highly controlled research studies, being done by legit experts in the area, with athletes - not some random dude, saying, “try keto . . worked for me”.
I agree Steve!
My understanding is that doing keto is just part of the process in his move to LCHF. He wasn’t going to stay keto?
**It’s odd that he gained weight since the premise was to lose weight and use fat stores for glycogen in long endurance efforts. Looks like it backfired. **
Study after study has shown that the “mixture” of Carbohydrate and fat used when training racing is relatively fixed. It’s predominately carbohydrate at the training/racing intensities that are common for most endurance sports athletes and that ratio stays the same as intensity ramps up. In other words, if you want to burn more fat - train harder and longer!!
Where people get this wrong is they buy into this falsity that by altering or manipulating diet and training intensity you can some how dial up the amount of fat you are burning relative to carbohydrate like you are turning dials on a stereo - that is false/wrong! If there is anything here - it’s 1 to 2% stuff. Work on the 98% that we know works first, before moving onto the experimental 1 - 2% stuff. Why is this always so hard to understand?
As you noted - best thing to do is eat a well rounded diet with a focus on vegetables and fruit, and appropriate amounts of protein and fat.