Dan Bigham is a multiple British Champion (Time Trial and track), a member of the Huub Wattbike track team, and an aerodynamics consultant who recently helped the Danish track team beat the team pursuit world record. In this episode Dan goes into many of the most important aspects of optimizing aerodynamics on the bike.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Aerodynamics testing protocols: on the road, at the velodrome and in the wind tunnel
-On-bike aerodynamic sensors and their use cases
-Bike fit and aerodynamics
-Equipment, upgrades and the £/watts ratio
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Bradford Cooper, PhD, is an academic, business executive, and extremely accomplished endurance athlete (among other achievements, he has won the Race Across America). He joins us to discuss his research in the field of Functional Mental Toughness (fMT), its implications and practical takeaways for endurance athletes of all levels.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-What is functional mental toughness and why is it important?
-Mental toughness is ever-changing, not fixed
-Mental toughness is a trainable skill, not an inherent trait
-The quantifiable impact of variations in mental toughness on endurance performance
-Tactics and strategies for improving mental toughness: the Prepare, Thrive, and Activate framework
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David Tilbury-Davis has been coaching professional and age group athletes since 1995, helping them achieve 3 World titles, 11 National titles, 3 Ironman Regional Championship titles, and numerous wins, podiums and personal bests in various races. In this interview, David discusses coaching from the coach's perspective - what goes on backstage away from workout prescriptions, coaching calls and training plans? This is part two of a two-part interview.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Defining success as a coach
-Creating meaningful work as a coach
-Remote coaching vs. face-to-face coaching
-Work/life balance as a coach
-Mental health for the athlete and the coach
-Data vs. RPE (Rating of Perceived Exertion)
-Doping
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David Tilbury-Davis has been coaching professional and age group athletes since 1995, helping them achieve 3 World titles, 11 National titles, 3 Ironman Regional Championship titles, and numerous wins, podiums and personal bests in various races. In this interview, David discusses his coaching philosophy and his perspective on a number of fundamental training-related questions. This is part one of a two-part interview.
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-David's coaching philosphy
-Volume and intensity
-Periodisation
-Workout prescription and execution
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Bobby McGee is a running coach with more than three decades experience of coaching elite and recreational runners and triathletes. He is renowned for his ability to help athletes find their optimal running form. In addition to running, Bobby is also a wealth of knowledge in sports psychology.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-The most important aspects of running form
-The ins and outs of changing or improving your running form
-How to incorporate skill and technique work in your run training
-Programming aspects of running for triathletes (volume, intensity, workout types and more...)
-The most important aspects of sports psychology and how to get on top of your mental game
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Jonathan "Jono" Hall is the head coach of Triathlon Canada's National Performance Center. As such, he coaches top Canadian athletes such as Tyler Mislawchuk, plus a handful of international world class athletes on the ITU circuit. In this training talk we discuss Jono's coaching philosophy and hear his thoughts on a whole host of topics related to triathlon performance.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Health as the fundamental aspect underpinning all performance
-Achieving world-class performances on significantly lower volume than most other training groups
-The cross-over effects between swimming, biking, and running
-Prescribing lower time at intensity in hard workouts - but making the intensity really count!
-Four-day microcycles: high intensity, tempo, endurance, recovery
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Arild Tveiten is the coach behind Norwegian triathlon successes such as Kristian Blummenfelt winning the WTS Grand Final 2019, Gustav Iden winning the 70.3 World Championships, and Casper Stornes, Kristian and Gustav sweeping the podium in the WTS Bermuda race in 2018. He returns to That Triathlon Show to discuss his training and coaching methodologies, and how
Norway are working towards Olympic medals in Tokyo 2020.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-The testing methods used by the Norwegian team to be able to strictly adhere to specified intensities.
-The training methodology they use, with the main pillars of high volume at low intensity and a substantial amount of work at lactate threshold (LT2).
-What they've changed in the 1.5 years since our previous interview, including more intensity in swim training
-How they are preparing to medal at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, including periodisation, training camps, and heat acclimatisation.
-The differences and similarities between draft-legal sprint and Olympic distance triathlon and non-draft IRONMAN 70.3 and IRONMAN distance racing and training
-Arild's top tips for age-groupers
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Faris al-Sultan is the Ironman World Champion from 2005 and multiple podium finisher. Since retiring and moving into coaching he is most well-known for coaching Patrick Lange to two World Championship titles and one third place in Kona. Currently, Faris works with the German Triathlon Federation to bring up the nation's draft-legal success closer to the successes seen on the long distance triathlon side.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-What has changed in triathlon and in training in 15 years since Faris won the World Championships?
-Coaching Patrick Lange to two World titles
-Faris' general coaching methodology
-Working at the German Triathlon Federation and developing world class draft-legal athletes
-The differences and similarities between long and short course triathlon
-The importance of volume and movement quality
-The art and science of coaching
-Advice for age-group athletes
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Ryan Bolton is a US Olympian from Sydney 2000, an Ironman champion, and now coaches elite runners (like Caroline Rotich, winner of Boston Marathon 2015) and triathletes (like Ben Hoffman, 4th in Kona 2019). In this episode he discusses his coaching methodology and thoughts on training strategies he employs at the elite level as exemplified by Ben Hoffman, but also how they apply to age-group athletes.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Ryan's general coaching methodology
-How he periodises training
-Building a strong base
-The balance of volume and intensity
-Intuitive training
-Advice for age-group athletes
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Craig Kirkwood is a former elite runner, Kona finisher, and coach of age group and elite triathletes and runners like Hayden Wilde and Sam Tanner. In this episode he discusses his coaching methodology and thoughts on training strategies in particular for draft legal racing at the elite level as exemplified by Hayden Wilde.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Craig's general coaching methodology
-Coaches and methods that influenced him as a young runner
-The training of Hayden Wilde
-Group training vs. solo training, and why solo training works really well for Hayden
-The balance of volume and intensity
-Advice for age-group athletes
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Philipp Seipp is the coach of Sebastian Kienle, Laura Philipp, and Florian Angert (among others). In this episode he discusses his coaching methodology and thoughts on training strategies for long-distance triathlon.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Philipp's general coaching methodology
-The importance of biomechanics
-The importance of speed and training for speed in long-distance triathlon (especially older athletes)
-Periodisation based on the individual's limiters and goal event demands
-Testing methodologies and principles
-How Philipp uses strength and conditioning
-Too much training volume and not as a common training mistake
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Andy Blow, founder of Precision Hydration is back on the show to revisit the topic of hydration and nutrition strategies for triathlon and endurance events and races. This episode is packed with practical and actionable advice that will put you in a great spot to get your race day nutrition and hydration right.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-An overview on sweat rate and sweat sodium concentrations, and the vast differences in losses and replacement needs between individuals
-Why Andy recommends separating your energy from your hydration
-Training the gut to better tolerate nutrition and hydration during racing
-Hydrogels like Maurten and Beta Fuel
-Wearables that measure hydration and sweat status in real-time and non-invasively
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Dan Atkins is the Head Coach of the Triathlon Australia Performance Centre on the Gold Coast. He discusses the demands of elite draft-legal triathlon in 2020 and how to prepare for these demands. All along, he shares training advice highly applicable to any endurance athlete, elite or amateur, triathlete or single-sport.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-The demands of elite draft-legal triathlon in 2020.
-Training elite and developmental athletes for world class draft-legal performances
-A typical training week of the squad of elite athletes at the Gold Coast performance center
-How the training develops over the course of a season
-The importance and challenges of a daily training environment with group training
-Coaching and training lessons learnt from integrating para-triathletes with able-bodied athletes
-Dan's number one piece of advice for any endurance athlete
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Dr. Charles Samuels is the Medical Director of the Centre for Sleep & Human Performance in Calgary, Alberta. One of his key interest areas is exploring the relationship of sleep on recovery and performance in elite Canadian athletes, up to the Olympic level. In this episode, Dr. Samuels filters through some of the noise surrounding sleep, gives practical advice for getting adequate sleep, and discusses why sleep tracking wearables do more harm than good.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-The Athlete Sleep Screening Questionnaire
-Differences between athletes and the general population in sleep patterns and sleep requirements
-Why wearables and sleep trackers do more harm than good for our sleep
-The case for catching up on sleep or banking sleep, and shooting for a weekly sleep goal
-Caffeine, napping, and chronotypes
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Professor David Bishop is a world leader in muscle exercise physiology with more than 250 publications to date. He explains how high training volume and high-intensity training each leads to particular endurance adaptations on a cellular and mitochondrial level. Knowing about these adaptation pathways and effects of different training methodologies is essential for triathletes and coaches when planning out their training.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-The difference between mitochondrial content and mitochondrial function
-How high-volume training skews towards increased mitochondrial content, and high-intensity training towards improved mitochondrial function
-Mitochondrial content may be the more important adaptation of the two when it comes down to performance
-Different intensity levels and their benefits and drawbacks
-Guidelines on appropriate Training Intensity Distributions
-"Training Low" - adaptations to training with low glycogen stores
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We look back at 2019 and listen to some of the very best audio segments from the top-10 interviews of That Triathlon Show this year.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL HEAR FROM:
-World Champions keep things simple: training masterclass with Joel Filliol | EP#172
-Dan Lorang - coach of Jan Frodeno, Anne Haug and Bora Hansgrohe pro cycling team | EP#175
-FTP, VO2max and VLaMax: what triathletes need to know with Sebastian Weber | EP#169
-Endurance sports nutrition: state of the art in 2019 with prof. John Hawley | EP#181
-Polarised training with Stephen Seiler, PhD | EP#177
-Run training of Kipchoge, Farah and Rudisha with Matt Fox of Sweat Elite | EP#195
-Injury prevention and rehabilitation with James Debenham, PhD | EP#209
-Training talk with world-class cyclist Amber Neben and coach Tim Cusick | EP#205
-Anybody can be a Kona qualifier: genetics is not your limiter with Alan Couzens | EP#186
-The top-5 challenges for masters athletes and how to overcome them - Bo Falck Hansen, PhD | EP#176
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Dave Cripps is the director and physical performance coach at TriTenacious and Coalition Performance. Dave has worked extensively with both professional and amateur athletes in triathlon and outside of triathlon (including working in rugby with the Leicester Tigers), and here he shares his thoughts on how strength training can and should be incorporated in a triathlon training program in a time-efficient manner.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-The benefits of strength training for triathletes
-A little goes a long way - most triathletes can get away with doing only one weekly workout in the gym
-Incorporating certain aspects of strength and conditioning as part of your swim, bike, and run workouts or warm-ups
-The types of exercises a triathlon strength training program should include
-Practicality trumps perfection when incorporating strength training in your overall plan
-Periodisation of strength training for triathlon
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Scientific Triathlon coaches James Teagle, Lachlan Kerin and Mikael Eriksson get together to discuss different training ideologies. What are the pros and cons of each, for whom might each be more or less relevant, and what are common mistakes and pitfalls to avoid when it comes to training ideologies?
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-The Lydiard model
-The interval-heavy model
-The threshold-heavy model
-The Kenyan/Canova model
-The Trisutto model
-The polarised model
-The sweet spot heavy model
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Coach Adam Pulford of Carmichael Training Systems discusses the yearly training plan for a cyclist, what goes into each training phase, and tackles plenty of frequently asked questions that cyclists, triathletes and other endurance athletes all need to consider when planning their training and racing calendar.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-The yearly periodisation of a typical cyclist
-The architecture of mesocycles and microcycles
-The competitive phase and maintaining fitness and freshness between races
-Frequently asked questions: the balance of high and low intensity, scheduling rest, physiological testing and more
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James Debenham, PhD, is a physiotherapist, researcher and university lecturer, as well as an accomplished Ironman athlete himself. He discusses the ins and outs of injury prevention and factors contributing to injury development, as well as rehabilitation from injury for triathletes and endurance athletes.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-The biology of tissue and tissue loading
-Variables contributing to injury development
-How to manipulate training variables and lifestyle variables to prevent injuries from occurring
-Rehabilitation from injury
-Progression of volume and intensity when returning to training
-When, why and how to find a good physiotherapist
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Danny Lennon, founder of Sigma Nutrition Radio makes a living staying up to date with current research and evidence in nutrition. He discusses current nutrition trends and what the consensus of them actually is.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Chrono-nutrition
-Carbohydrates and low-carb diets
-The gut microbiome
-Intermittent fasting and time-restricted feeding
-Genetics, genetic testing and nutrition
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Walter Staiano, PhD, is a researcher and performance consultant specialising in mental fatigue, mindfulness in athletic performance, and the mechanisms that increase and decrease perception of effort and thereby endurance performance.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-How mindfulness training can impact athletic, cognitive and social performance
-How mental fatigue arises, how it impacts endurance sports performance and how to manage and minimise mental fatigue
-What Brain Endurance Training (BET) is and how it has the potential to improve endurance performance beyond the benefits of physical training.
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Listeners of That Triathlon Show describe how they balance family and work commitments with triathlon training and solve the puzzle of fitting so much into a busy life.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Scheduling tips
-Preparation keys
-Hacks to find time you didn't think existed
-The overall mindset to this balancing act
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https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts206/
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