Hey guys and gals,

This week Charlotte and I discuss the importance of swim training for triathlon and we go over what most important especially for those neophyte (adult onset) swimmers.

You'll learn what tools we use and how to use them effectively, what to focus on for a great powerful swim stroke and more.

Enjoy

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Hey guys and gals,

It's been a busy last couple of weeks (for a reason) and I won't lie I've been frustrated a whole bunch and have felt like giving up.

I know, we've all felt like it at times. You put in the time, you put in the effort, you are doing the work both physically and mentally yet you still come up empty handed (or so we erroneously think).

And even though I know the rules of engagement, I am human and I still get frustrated and want to throw in the towel.

Today's podcast is about not giving up. I know it will help.

Enjoy

This show is bought to by Endurance Specific Coaching

Anyone who’s tired of decision fatigue with self coaching
✔️Athletes disappointed with their results thus far
✔️Athletes who want to reach their full potential
✔️Time poor athletes
✔️Anyone wanting to try a different approach
✔️Athletes who feel continually injured or burnt out
✔️Newbies or long time athletes
✔️And of course those who are allergic to average.

Learn more @ www.endurancespecific.com

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Hey guys and gals

Today we are continuing on with the Triathlon stuff. More specifically how to run fast off the bike.

Every triathlete wants to run faster off the bike… We cover one very important triathlon skill set you’d be best on developing and a couple of helpful tips.

Enjoy and check https://endurancespecific.com/the-endurance-specific-podcast-30-run-fast-off-the-bike/ for the show notes.

This show is bought to by Endurance Specific Coaching

Anyone who’s tired of decision fatigue with self-coaching
✔️Athletes disappointed with their results thus far
✔️Athletes who want to reach their full potential
✔️Time poor athletes
✔️Anyone wanting to try a different approach
✔️Athletes who feel continually injured or burnt out
✔️Newbies or long time athletes
✔️And of course those who are allergic to average.

Learn more @ www.endurancespecific.com

This show is also bought to you by Athletic Greens our all-in-one nutritional insurance drink. Athletic Greens covers our bases with vitamins, minerals, and whole-food-sourced micronutrients that support gut health, energy, and the immune system. With added pre-and probiotics, digestive enzymes, adaptogens, and more, Athletic Greens is one of the most comprehensive formulas on the market.

Athletic Greens†now has an exclusive offer for our listenersget added immune system support today (also excellent for travel) with†a FREE 1-Year Supply of Liquid Vitamin D + 5 Travel Packs with your subscription purchase.

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Hey, guys today we are going back to our roots and talking Triathlon specifically long course. Half ironmans and full Ironmans…

And even more specifically the problems I see around what we believe is the simplest discipline to improve with.

The Bike.

We cover a few main reasons your bike results may be stagnant and how you can develop yourself into one of those strong and ultimately fast bikers that importantly can still run fast off the bike.

Enjoy.

This episode is bought to you by Endurance Specific Training Plans. A complete 'plug and play' solution that will see you with more strength, endurance, speed and results not to mention better health.

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This show is also bought to you by Athletic Greens our all-in-one nutritional insurance drink. Athletic Greens covers our bases with vitamins, minerals, and whole-food-sourced micronutrients that support gut health, energy, and the immune system. With added pre-and probiotics, digestive enzymes, adaptogens, and more, Athletic Greens is one of the most comprehensive formulas on the market.

Athletic Greens†now has an exclusive offer for our listenersget added immune system support today (also excellent for travel) with†a FREE 1-Year Supply of Liquid Vitamin D + 5 Travel Packs with your subscription purchase.

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Hey guys Charlotte and I today are talking about the importance of developing intuitive feedback skills and the need to base your training intensities off of an intuitive path using simplicity.

These are the most important things you can grasp, understand and implement for your endurance training. That is no hyperbole. This is based on facts of many years.

Today's podcast is simply about making our training, our races, and our adventures simply more enjoyable.

We see too much unhappiness when everything is simply about the result. Place or times achieved. These data points are important but there is something much more important that needs to be discussed and that is what we discuss today.

How to make your training and racing more FUN.

Good Coaching doesn't Cost it PAYS

We invest in helping you create your best times through our coaching and training plans. 

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While there is a lot of negative crap going on in the world right now I'm going to focus on the positive things.

The things I can control.

And that's part of my advice in today's podcast. I also talk about how we quit every day without really thinking that it will hurt our performances over the long haul. In fact, we don't even consider it quitting but it is.

This is not being a downer. This is creating awareness and from there we have a conscious choice to change and thus make big improvements.

This episode is bought to you by Endurance Specific Training Plans. A complete 'plug and play' solution that will see you with more strength, endurance, speed and results not to mention better health.
Learn more at endurancespecific.com

This show is also bought to you by Athletic Greens our all-in-one nutritional insurance drink. Athletic Greens covers our bases with vitamins, minerals, and whole-food-sourced micronutrients that support gut health, energy, and the immune system. With added pre-and probiotics, digestive enzymes, adaptogens, and more, Athletic Greens is one of the most comprehensive formulas on the market.

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A quick show today where I give you the number-one distinguishing factor between those who are average and those who are great and that the devil as we know it is in the details.

This show is bought to you by Endurance Specific Training Plans

This show is also bought to you by Athletic Greens our all-in-one nutritional insurance drink. Athletic Greens covers our bases with vitamins, minerals, and whole-food-sourced micronutrients that support gut health, energy, and the immune system. With added pre-and probiotics, digestive enzymes, adaptogens, and more, Athletic Greens is one of the most comprehensive formulas on the market.

Athletic Greens now has an exclusive offer for our listeners—get added immune system support today (also excellent for travel) with a FREE 1-Year Supply of Liquid Vitamin D + 5 Travel Packs with your subscription purchase.

This show is bought to you by Endurance Specific Training Plans

This show is also bought to you by Athletic Greens our all-in-one nutritional insurance drink. Athletic Greens covers our bases with vitamins, minerals, and whole-food-sourced micronutrients that support gut health, energy, and the immune system. With added pre-and probiotics, digestive enzymes, adaptogens, and more, Athletic Greens is one of the most comprehensive formulas on the market.

Athletic Greens now has an exclusive offer for our listeners—get added immune system support today (also excellent for travel) with a FREE 1-Year Supply of Liquid Vitamin D + 5 Travel Packs with your subscription purchase.

Today Charlotte and I talk about desired outcomes and the talk is about a James Clear quote which has some solid questions we need to be asking ourselves to see if our current choices can carry us to our desired future.

This show is bought to you by Endurance Specific Training Plans

This show is also bought to you by Athletic Greens our all-in-one nutritional insurance drink. Athletic Greens covers our bases with vitamins, minerals, and whole-food-sourced micronutrients that support gut health, energy, and the immune system. With added pre-and probiotics, digestive enzymes, adaptogens, and more, Athletic Greens is one of the most comprehensive formulas on the market.

Athletic Greens now has an exclusive offer for our listeners—get added immune system support today (also excellent for travel) with a FREE 1-Year Supply of Liquid Vitamin D + 5 Travel Packs with your subscription purchase.

Today Charlotte and I talk about this important topic when it comes to training and our goals. We also cover discomfort and why it's important to growth. Discomfort isn't always attached to intensity either!

Enjoy.

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Today Charlotte and I talk about the ideology of hacks that make us believe there is some form of shortcut towards the outcomes we want.

We also cover the uncertainty that many athletes are going through in their training for races right now. And the ultimate question. Is it worth it when we don't know if the race will happen?

Today we talk about setting and getting goals. We use a different framework than the typical SMART goals process. 

Regardless of the system. We need to set them to get them. Goals that are set with commitment give us focus. As we speak about, your goals don't need to be for races just to train but we need goals and need to focus on whats the next step. 

Goals and focus right now are really important to our mental health as well as our physical health. 

Every single one of us is going to face challenges both big and small and even seemingly insurmountable.

And there are going to be a myriad of challenges you’re going to have to overcome in order to get anywhere near your ‘life’ potential.

There will be sacrifice challenges, there will be injury and health challenges, there will be life circumstance challenges, there will be motivational challenges, there will be many a mental challenge and the list will go on and on.

The challenges we are all facing right now can seem overwhelming.

The problem is that we’re probably the only organism on earth that truly seeks comfort. We prefer to look for ‘outs’ from the daily struggle instead of embracing it.

We need to lean into the struggles. Embrace them, learn from them and move through them.

If we look to nature – it’s glaringly obvious that life is not easy at all.

Life is HARD and that’s ok.

Nature can give us some great lessons. Today is a short podcast on what we can learn from ANTS.

Enjoy.

Today we are back talking the NO bullshit ways to get good and stay good. We talk about misunderstanding Vo2Max... why focusing on increasing your FTP isn't your best focus and something way more important. How to not fade in the backend of racing.

All this also wrapped up in a listener question about developing muscular endurance. 

I recently got to speak with Claudia Sorensen all about fascia, our beliefs, and how injuries show up. We had a really fascinating conversation and if you've had recurring injuries this may shine some light on why (even if you've been doing all the rehab, the stretching, the rolling etc).

Claudia is a Structural integration Rolf Practitioner, an associated member of the Ortho-Bionomy, and a certified yoga instructor.

You can find Claudia at The Little White House in Vernon BC

Claudia Recommends:

The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer

Even With Your Shoes On by Hellen Hall

We need to stop buying into complexity is the way. We see way too many people undervaluing simplicity.

Simple doesn’t make it easy.

But keeping things simple is the pathway to getting really good at endurance sports.

Today Charlotte and I give you the main simple and required things you must do if you care about improving. If you care about seeing what you can do.

The hard thing with simple. It gets rid of a lot of the excuses why you think you can’t get good.

The answer is simple, it just ain’t comfortable.

Charlotte and I continue on with the No BS way to get good... 

I give you a little proud parent moment that shows a level of commitment that we can learn from. We also talk about decoupling your big hairy audacious goals from the calendar and why it's not always good to have a set time of when something should be achieved. It's about showing up and playing the long game. 

If you are committed to getting good and living your best life, we hope you are. We continue is the no BS way here.

If you are committed to getting good. We continue is the no BS way here.

Today on the podcast, Charlotte and I kick off part one of the No BS way to get good, no matter the endurance training you do. We cover things like what you are avoiding, the 5 simple things to change your outcomes and we go into each of those to help you better understand the mechanics and why each is important. We also look into something I believe I and many others are wrong with promoting this specific thought path and to wrap up part once we look at tiredness. It's a fact of life as an endurance athlete but we show you how you are likely killing your chances of success through the justifications we give ourselves in a subjective manner. 

If you are committed to getting good. Here is the no BS way to put you on the path. 

music by @insilicosound

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The myth of 1% better every day

Before the Christmas break, I got the chance to speak with Marcus Leach.

You might be wondering who Marcus is. Marcus is amongst other things, an ultra cyclist, a freelance writer, a husband, a dad (of two young kids), and a lover of the mountains and challenging his limits. Marcus has ridden the 3 grand tours IN THE SAME YEAR the day before the pros come through. He’s raced a ton of ultra-endurance races and has put 4 Everests to his name.

Learn how Marcus stacked on a ton of weight, decided enough was enough, and changed the course of his life.

The majority of this podcast is talking about developing your mental muscle.