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The Be Battle Ready triathlon podcast is where everyday athletes, adventurers, and seekers of strength come to forge resilience - in body, mind, and spirit.
Hosted by coach Simon Ward, each episode explores the true pillars of endurance: purposeful training, nourishing nutrition, restorative sleep, a resilient mindset, and the art of recovery. It’s designed especially for those in their 40s, 50s and beyond who refuse to rust - men and women who know that age is no excuse to stop sharpening the blade.
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Wednesday Feb 26, 2020
Wednesday Feb 26, 2020
The annual Training Peaks conference is recognised as having some great keynote speakers, several of whom I have managed to invite onto this show as guests (Stephen Seiler being the most recent one). This week I bring you another one of those insightful humans as I chat with Alex Hutchinson. Alex is a journalist and author. His latest book is Endure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance. Alex is a keen runner, and in his younger years competed for the Canadian National team at middle distance with a 3:42:43 best at 1500m, and 49:20 for 10 miles. He studied at university as a physicist spending 3 years studying for his Phd in the UK, and eventually ended up as journalist. In addition to having written books, he contributes regular columns for Outside magazine and others.
This is another great discussion so please listen in as we chat about:
- Some surprising truths and myths about training for sport
- Why your brain could be holding you back in races
- Why your environment matters if you want a PB
- How to harness the pack to race faster
- Building your belief to achieve your goals
- What will influence the big endurance breakthroughs in the next few years
- The obligatory (short) chat about Nike Vaporfly
- Alex’s top 4 tips for peak performance
Just a reminder about Alex’s books
Endure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
Which Comes first? Cardio or weights?
We also chatted about some research which Alex references in his book. This one is about how mental fatigue impairs physical performance, something you might want to take into account before a taper https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19131473
This research focusses on how motivational self talk can help performance https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27580154
Finally this is the research where the cyclists were shown happy or sad faces for milliseconds and how it affected performance https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4263011/
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6 years ago
Excellent listen! Thank you