Thu, 24 July 2014
Today Pete and I wanted to take a step back and look at the foundations. The true fundamental ingredients or as we call them 'Pillars' to reaching your potential in this sport of triathlon. In todays age and right now there seems to be a push to hacking this and hacking that. Don't get us wrong - there are indeed some useful 'hacks' to improve performance but like anything - if the fundamentals aren't in place those hacks aren't going to be as potent as they could be. As James Clear recently put on a great post (linked below) "The thing is, when you look at how the top performers in the world operate and examine what is really going on in their minds and bodies, you often see the complete opposite of a hack. You see repetitions and consistency." Those last two points ... repetitions and consistency are the WAY! Period. What We Cover:
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Thu, 17 July 2014
On this weeks Friday Fat Black , Pete and I have the pleasure of having my much better half Charlotte Paul on show. In this episode we wanted to cover what every single one of us goes through in life - not just our sporting endeavours but also LIFE. FAILURE We are all going to fail at some time and that is OK. In fact, it's more then ok ... it's absolutely crucial to becoming successful. Instead of trying to avoid mistakes at all costs, aim to seek opportunities that will lead you to facing your limits (and they're usually ones that ARE self imposed) so that you can learn quickly. I bet you if you ever look back upon times in your life which led to major growth or successful moments that they were preceded by mistakes, and seemingly unsurmountable obstacles. As you'll hear about in this episode Charlotte had many failures on her journey to winning her first Ironman in a handy time of 9:00:55 and more after that which led to further successes. I've had my fair share and I guarantee there will be more. Pete talks about his 'failure' at Ironman Cairns recently. The key .. the absolute key is learning the lessons. To do so you have to be open to receiving them. Sit back and relax and learn how failing fast and failing often can be your ticket to the greatest successes you've ever had. |
Thu, 10 July 2014
In todays Friday Fat Black Pete and I discuss stress and it's impacts on your body, especially when it comes to adrenal fatigue (something that I've been dealing with as a post issue of celiac diagnosis last year and something I'm writing about that will inevitably help you because for me it was the 'perfect storm'). What we forget or don't acknowledge is that stress is a stress is a stress and what I mean here is that the more stress we pile on from our lifestyles means the less training stress we can tolerate. We also go into using HRV (heart rate variability) as a way to track our stress responses in real time. The kicker here is that you might not even feel stressed but your sympathetic nervous (fight-or-flight) system is actually on overdrive and using the tracking apps and devices we link to below can help you become aware of this and create ways to minimise the SNS activity which when chronic will lead to break down and potentially adrenal fatigue. And finally we jump into one of the biggest stressors we load onto ourselves and this is sleep debt. Enjoy and as we said in the podcast ... let us know in the comments what you want us to discuss and we will randomly choose a winner to give some cool TriSpecific and Trigger Point swag. What we cover:
Links:Stress and performance: Stress and HRV: SweatBeat App: Heart Rate Strap to use with SweetBeatLife: Wahoo Fitness Tickr or Tickr Run Understanding HRV: How to switch off and relax: Sleep and performnace: Getting better sleep: http://superhumanencoder.com/entrainer-acoustics/
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Thu, 3 July 2014
In todays podcast Pete and I talk about the BIKE ... quite fitting because the TDF starts tomorrow and we all love riding our bikes. We discuss how to effectively and efficiently train the bike by looking into the 5 important systems we must train to reach our potential on the bike and become strong so we can race fast in Iron distance races. What We Cover:
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