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The High Performance Human Podcast is where triathletes and endurance athletes learn how to train smarter, live healthier, and stay fit for life’s big adventures.
Hosted by coach Simon Ward, each episode dives into the pillars of performance — training, nutrition, sleep, mindset, and recovery — with a special focus on athletes in their 40s, 50s and beyond.
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Wednesday Oct 13, 2021
Getting really grumpy about triathlon * Grumpy Old Coaches
Wednesday Oct 13, 2021
Wednesday Oct 13, 2021
It’s been a while coming but finally, the Grumpy Old Coaches are back in the hot seats for another round of anarchy and bitchiness about things we see that just make us…..well, grumpy.
- Steve gets hot under the collar about ‘junk miles’ and why there is no such thing in cycling
- Simon gets stuck into the ludicrous concept of recovery runs for triathletes
- Marc goes off on one about HIT training and then periodisation
- Everyone gets really grumpy about fad diets
- Steve loses his cool when we discuss running technique
- The over-focus on FTP and Vo2 max causes one of the team to explode
As you can probably tell, we had a great time recording this podcast. We’ll be back with another episode at Christmas. If you’ve got topics that you would like us to get really grumpy about, send your ideas to beth@thetriathloncoach.com.
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3 years ago
Great podcast, definitely easy to lose sight of basics, so a really good reminder.