Episódios

  • Season 7 Ep 2 — Fergus Crawley on Training Hybrid Athletes and the Benefits for Endurance Athletes

    Season 7 Ep 2 — Fergus Crawley on Training Hybrid Athletes and the Benefits for Endurance Athletes
    Feb 19 2025
    In this episode of the TrainingPeaks CoachCast, we sit down with Fergus Crawley, the co-founder and head coach of Omnia Performance, to look into the world of hybrid athletes. Hybrid training, a blend of strength and endurance disciplines, challenges the traditional boundaries of athletic training. Fergus draws from his rich background in rugby, powerlifting, triathlons, and concurrent training to explain how athletes can effectively balance opposing athletic goals. From his incredible achievement of squatting 500 pounds and running a sub-five-minute mile in the same day to working with military operatives, Fergus shares insights on biomechanical awareness, periodization, and the mental approach needed for such diverse training programming. Learn how hybrid athletes can tackle the demands of multi-discipline sports and the benefits of open-mindedness in fitness. Fergus discusses several strategies he uses to coach and accomplish his many challenges that can help you pursue your athletic goals, whether you're a seasoned triathlete or a strength enthusiast curious about endurance.
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    55 minutos
  • Season 7 Ep 1 — Inside Nell Rojas' Approach to Marathon Training and Athlete Development

    Season 7 Ep 1 — Inside Nell Rojas' Approach to Marathon Training and Athlete Development
    Jan 15 2025
    Professional runner and running coach Nell Rojas shares her insights into racing and coaching athletes for marathons, including the Boston Marathon, using a balance of art and science. She attended Northern Arizona University, where she studied exercise science and competed in cross country and track. Nell ran her first marathon in 2018 and became the top American finisher in the Boston Marathon in 2021 and 2022. Additionally, she finished 10th at the 2022 New York City Marathon. Nell has achieved remarkable success as an American marathon runner, securing top American finishes at the 2021 and 2022 Boston Marathons, a top 10 finish at the 2022 New York City Marathon, and competing in the 2020 Olympic Marathon Trials. She has also claimed a 10-mile US Championship title and won Grandma's Marathon. Beyond her athletic accomplishments, Nell advocates for inclusivity within the running community, focusing on empowering people of color and women. With 20 years of coaching experience, she is dedicated to helping athletes of all abilities achieve their own running goals.
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    49 minutos
  • Season 6 Ep 14 — Optimizing Ultra Race Recovery with Scott Johnston of Evoke Endurance

    Season 6 Ep 14 — Optimizing Ultra Race Recovery with Scott Johnston of Evoke Endurance
    Dec 3 2024
    Scott Johnston, co-author of "Training for the New Alpinism" and "Training for the Uphill Athlete," shares insights on recovery strategies for ultramarathon runners in this new podcast episode. Johnston emphasizes the critical balance between rest and performance, outlining how factors like central nervous system fatigue, motivation, and age influence post-race recovery. The conversation highlights actionable strategies, including subjective feedback tracking, active recovery, and the importance of long-term planning for peak performance while avoiding overtraining. Visit TrainingPeaks.com to see how it can help your training.
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    47 minutos
  • Season 6 Ep 13 — TrainingPeaks Virtual: Redefining Indoor Cycling and Training with George Gilbert and Lee Gerakos

    Season 6 Ep 13 — TrainingPeaks Virtual: Redefining Indoor Cycling and Training with George Gilbert and Lee Gerakos
    Nov 20 2024
    Listen in as indieVelo creator George Gilbert and TrainingPeaks president Lee Gerakos break down the reasoning behind the acquisition of the virtual riding platform, now named TrainingPeaks Virtual, the opportunities for coaches and athletes and how the ethos of credible virtual racing is a part of the DNA of the merger. They share with Dirk the importance of community feedback in shaping the platform's development and commitment to creating inclusive and credible virtual racing environments. Plus, learn about the seamless integration of TrainingPeaks athlete accounts and TrainingPeaks Virtual and its impact on cycling training and community building. The options for creating group rides, races and training simulations are extensive for coaches and athletes.
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    52 minutos
  • Season 6 Ep 12 — Gale Bernhardt — From Math Teacher to Olympic Coach

    Season 6 Ep 12 — Gale Bernhardt — From Math Teacher to Olympic Coach
    Oct 2 2024
    Gale Bernhardt's insights on effective coaching, balancing technology with human touch, setting long-term goals and tips for aspiring coaches. With over 35 years of coaching experience, Gale Bernhardt has guided Olympians and World Championship athletes and played pivotal roles as the USA Triathlon Olympic and Pan American Games Triathlon coach. She shares her incredible journey from a mechanical engineering background to becoming one of the most respected figures in endurance sports as a pioneering endurance coach. We explore her coaching philosophy, emphasizing the importance of continual learning across exercise science, pedagogy, and other key areas of understanding. Gale also provides invaluable advice for aspiring coaches. She highlights the significance of setting long-term goals, addressing knowledge gaps, and balancing science and the art of coaching. Gale and Dirk compare and contrast coaching occupations in the United States and European countries. Plus, she touches on the evolving role of AI in coaching and why the human touch remains irreplaceable. To learn how TrainingPeaks can help your endurance coaching, visit TrainingPeaks.com.
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    55 minutos
  • Season 6 Ep 11 — Addressing RED-S and Optimizing Nutrition with Sports Dietitian Kylee Van Horn

    Season 6 Ep 11 — Addressing RED-S and Optimizing Nutrition with Sports Dietitian Kylee Van Horn
    Aug 28 2024
    Understand the essentials of athlete fueling, including RED-S and the importance of tailored nutrition plans, with sports dietician Kylee Van Horn. Kylee Van Horn, CEO of Fly Nutrition, specializes in helping athletes optimize their performance and manage eating disorders, including RED-S (relative energy deficiency in sport). She's also an ultrarunner and running coach based in Colorado, looking to simplify nutrition for athletes and steer them away from fad diets. You can also hear her on the podcast "Your Diet Sucks" with Zoë Rom. In this episode, Dirk and Kylee break down personalized nutrition plans, the role of micronutrient density, and the importance of understanding fuel requirements for different training sessions. Kylee shares helpful tips on fueling strategies for endurance and ultra-endurance athletes, addressing common fueling challenges, and the benefits of a team coaching approach to addressing nutrition and training goals. Plus, you'll hear her thoughts on addressing a few situations as an athlete, like overcoming nausea and the difficulty in recognizing eating disorders. To help structure your endurance sports journey, visit TrainingPeaks.com.
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    50 minutos
  • Season 6 Ep 10 — HRV4Training's Marco Altini on the Most Important Aspects of HRV Data

    Season 6 Ep 10 — HRV4Training's Marco Altini on the Most Important Aspects of HRV Data
    Aug 7 2024
    Heart rate variability (HRV) is unique to each athlete. Learn how to effectively measure and use HRV data alongside subjective feedback to optimize your training and recovery. Our guest for episode 10 is Marco Altini, a scientist, app developer and expert in using data from wearable devices to optimize health and performance. Many will recognize his name from the app HRV4Training, which integrates with TrainingPeaks. Marco's background spans computer science, human movement and high-performance coaching. He's also an avid runner, having qualified for the Boston Marathon and competed in European ultramarathons. Our discussion digs into the details of HRV, an increasingly popular metric for endurance athletes. Marco breaks down what HRV actually measures, its history of use in scientific research, and how it serves as a marker of the body's response to various stressors — from training to travel to simple daily life. He also clears up some of the biggest misconceptions about HRV, like the idea that you can directly compare your HRV to someone else's or that a single HRV reading can predict if you're about to get sick or injured. Marco emphasizes the importance of context and tracking your individual trends over time to have a valid baseline to analyze your stress response. Perhaps most importantly, we cover how HRV data is best used as one piece of the puzzle in understanding your body so that you can have productive training sessions. To learn how TrainingPeaks can help your training, visit https://trainingpeaks.com/
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    57 minutos
  • Season 6 Ep 9 — Olympic Triathlon 2024: Gearing Up Team U.S.A With Ryan Bolton & Erin Carson

    Season 6 Ep 9 — Olympic Triathlon 2024: Gearing Up Team U.S.A With Ryan Bolton & Erin Carson
    Jul 24 2024
    Explore insights from top coaches Ryan Bolton and Erin Carson on preparing U.S.A. triathletes for the 2024 Olympic Triathlon competitions and, in one instance, the individual time trial in cycling, through coaching collaboration and training techniques. In this episode, Ryan Bolton and Erin Carson discuss the details of preparing athletes for the 2024 U.S. Olympic Triathlon team in Paris. Ryan Bolton, Director of High Performance for U.S.A. Triathlon and owner and founder of BEST Coaching brings extensive experience as an Olympian for the 2000 games and coaching top-tier athletes, including 2024 Olympian Morgan Pearson. Erin Carson, a renowned strength coach and head coach at ECFIT Performance Strength, shares her unique perspectives on optimizing athletes' physical and mental resilience, including Taylor Knibb. The coaches also break down the elements that separate Olympic athletes from other elite athletes, the explosiveness of modern triathlon races and the resources Team U.S.A. is deploying for this year's competitions to aim for the best results. Learn more about TrainingPeaks and how it can improve your endurance sport performance at trainingpeaks.com.
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    58 minutos