Welcome to Episode #58 of the Mile High Endurance podcast. Mile High Endurance is your weekly connection to coaches, experts and pro athletes to help you reach your endurance and triathlon goals. Bill Plock and I had a blast talking to guest Dr. Amanda Stevens about metabolic efficiency training and eating. We discuss swim form and drills to help you achieve balance in the water.
00:00 | Introduction and interview setup |
11:27 | Interview with Dr. Amanda Stevens |
58:52 | Interview take-aways, upcoming interviews and wrap up |
With the scheduling of the interview this week and trying to figure out when to record the intro for this week's episode, we were not able to get Khem Suthiwn with us this week. She'll be back next week. Khem, wish you were here with us.
Interview setup:
Amanda Stevens can be contacted at the following:
https://www.facebook.com/DocAmandaStevens
https://twitter.com/DrAmandaStevens
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Coming up on the show we have:
Mark Mastalir | Halo Neuro |
Brian Burk | Author of Running to Leadville |
Natalie Brockeveldt | Personal Trainer and Certified Nutritionist |
Daragh Kneeshaw | Aspen Snowmass - Audi Power of Four |
Stay tuned, stay informed, and enjoy the triathlon journey!
Welcome to Episode #57 of the Mile High Endurance podcast. Mile High Endurance is your weekly connection to coaches, experts and pro athletes to help you reach your endurance and triathlon goals. I'm you host Rich Soares with co-hosts Khem Suthiwan and Bill Plock. We have a very cool interview with Terry Laughlin of Total Immersion today.
Thank you to Dirk Friel for coming back on the show and talking about TrainingPeaks recent features. I really didn't hype it up, but I would encourage you to go to the website www.milehighendurance.com and note there is a new menu item called "Blog". Under that you will see MHE Blog and Photos. In the MHE Blog you will see my complete write up and step by step exploration of the new features in Workout Builder and Annual Training Plan.
Okay, let's get into today's interview with Terry Laughlin, founder of TI. Let me start with the reason I wanted to get him on the show. We have been focusing this northern hemisphere "off season" on topics related to form, technique, strength/balance to create the greatest opportunity for efficiency and injury prevention when your season begins in earnest.
Back in episode #48, Khem and I interviewed coach David Warden on the topic of bio mechanics. In that interview, David mentioned getting coaching help from Terry Laughlin of TI and how it helped improve his speed and efficiency in the water from a below average swimmer to a top ten percent swimmer.
Well I took a mental note during that interview. I too studied TI In my first year or so of triathlon. It's been a while since I read the book and I thought it would be great to bring Terry to all of you. I hope you have read TI, taken the course work, or receive coaching. Whether you have or you haven't, I think you will find Terry has a talent for teaching swimming technique. You will hear how incredibly well he describes techniques and feel of the water for streamlining and power.
We're going to have Terry back in a few weeks or so to talk about "the ability to repeat effective swimming motions (or strokes) for a duration, and at a pace, of your choosing." We also talk about the 3 M's of Endurance: Metabolic, Motor, Mental.
Speaking of upcoming interviews, let's talk about the lineup.
Kane Russell | To talk about the Neuro Halo next week. I gave a little intro last week. The one thing I'll add is that there is a potential surprise guest that will join Kane when we talk. We're waiting to get confirmation, so I'll keep it a mystery. If it gets confirmed during the week I'll put a post of FB and T to let you all know. |
Amanda Stevens | To talk to us about - Fill in the blank. We want your help with questions for Amanda. Here's what we're going to do. I'm going to put a poll out there on twitter and facebook. I'm going to put 2 or 3 poll choices out there. Some of the topics Amanda and I kicked around when we spoke earlier this week were, 1) Nutrition, 2) Amanda's Swim Instruction , 3) how to identify and avoid over-training. Look for those polls and please, please respond |
Audi Power of Four Ski Mountaineering Race | We are in talks with these guys, but nothing is confirmed yet. |
Brian Burk | Author of "Running To Leadville" |
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Please also give some love to Terry Laughlin and Total Immersion and go to their Facebook page and website to learn more.
If you have been out to the www.milehighendurance.com website this week, you have seen some changes. There are now sub menu items on the website. I've also changed some of the content. Where there used to be a menu item for "Episodes", that has been reworded to "Interviews" and then there are sub menu page selections for 2016 and 2017 interviews. I've also added the date of each episode and made it much more mobile friendly. There were also a few links that were broken and are now fixed.
Stay tuned, stay informed, and enjoy the triathlon journey!
Welcome to Episode #56 of the Mile High Endurance podcast. Mile High Endurance is your weekly connection to coaches, experts and pro athletes to help you reach your endurance and triathlon goals. I'm your host Rich Soares and I'm joined by co-host Bill Plock from 303 Triathlon. Welcome back this week. Today's guest interview is with Dirk Friel from TrainingPeaks to talk to us about some of the newer features in TrainingPeaks. We'll get into that in just a minute. How's it Bill?
Catch up with Bill.
Thanks to Michael Rodgers for joining us last week to talk about the NYC Marathon.
We've been talking about this week's guest for a few weeks now. Dirk Friel, co-founder of TrainingPeaks, has been a guest on the show in the past. This week we caught up with Dirk to talk to us about some of the new TrainingPeaks features.
My inspiration for the topic. I had upgraded to the Coaching Edition and had received an email from Tony at TrainingPeaks offering to give me a 45 minute overview of the coaching version. During the orientation session, Tony was walking me through how to create an Annual Training Plan (ATP). I have been using ATP, and had struggled the task of data entry and calculations to design and build the ATP. My specific thought was "jeez it would be great if you could just enter the target Training Stress Score and have that automatically produce an ATP volume required to prepare an athlete for their A Race. It seemed like a reasonable question, so I asked Tony. He chuckled a bit, and I expected to hear Tony follow the chuckle with a "it's right there in front of you", Instead, Tony explained that the functionality did not exist yet, but was actually scheduled in an upcoming release.
In preparation for the interview I was poking around with the TSS/CTL/ATP tool and the Workout Builder. The more I played with them the freaking cooler it got. As a guy who works a Product Manager for a software development team, I have an appreciation for how "in-tune and intuitive" it is. I usually work too hard to try to figure out some software functionality. When I let myself mouse around, I began to find that there were controls exactly where you want them and an interactivity between the data tables and the graphical display that is dynamic. Meaning, you can create a table from drag and drop templates, you can adjust things like set length by dragging, or go to the table and make data changes directly.
The same is true for Workout Builder. From Calendar, either click on Workout Library or create a new workout by clicking on the plus sign on the day you are adding a workout. Depending on the type of workout, you can pick the Training Method (eg, % of FTP, % of MHR, RPE, etc). You can drag or click blocks, within a block, you can hover over each and see the duration and intensity displayed in the text. You will also see the zones dynamically specified for the individual athlete. You will also see starting time/distance in the hover over text box. This helps you make sure you have the right training volume to reach your target.
If you want to increase the intensity, you can over the top of the graph bar and you will see the mouse arrow change to a double-arrow. You can left click and move the intensity up or down.
Likewise, you can adjust the duration by hovering over the side of the graph bar, reveal the double-arrow curser. Left click and then drag to be longer or shorter.
If you want to increase or decrease the number of reps in the set, you can hover over the block and you will see a +/- on the left side of the block. You can click on the + to add reps or the - to remove reps. Note that you can see the projected TSS.
Let's get into the interview with Dirk Friel and hear what he has to say.
Welcome to Episode #55 of the Mile High Endurance podcast. This week's interview is with Michael Rodgers of New York Road Runners. Michael talks to us about the NYC Marathon, the many options to gain entry to this epic race, what it takes to run it, and the many things that NYRRs do to grow communities and create opportunities through running. Michael is a 5 time Ironman finisher and planning to Lake Placid in 2017.
Mile High Endurance is your weekly connection to coaches, experts and pro athletes to help you reach your endurance and triathlon goals. I'm your host Rich Soares and I'm joined by co-hosts Khem Suthiwan and Bill Plock.
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Last week we had Lance Panigutti on the show to talk about the Boulder Peak and the 5430 Series. Last week we talked about the bargain price of $300 to register for all 3 races. I made a bit of a deal about the 'early bird' price and encouraged folks to register before midnight on New Year's Eve. We thought it was going to take a modest bump up to $330 - well it didn’t. I just checked yesterday and it's $315. $315 for the Sprint, Boulder Peak Olympic, and a half Iron distance race.