International Triathlon Coach Joel Filliol and Jeff Scull from the Department of Applied Health Sciences at Brock University in Ontario will be having a discussion on coaching, inputting on Jeff's research project entitled "Investigation into the motivational strategies among elite triathlon coaches"
This video is the Beijing 2008 Olympic Reflections talk I did with two time Olympic medallist Simon Whitfield, in November 2008, held at PISE in Victoria BC Canada.
Another in the Triathlete Europe coach talks series, this time with yours truly.
In this interview I discuss overall training philosophy, the peaking concept for races, individual workload, injury prevention, and balancing all three sports:
"What we’re trying to do is have the right workloads for each athlete-the right workload at the right time for the athletes. Ithink that’s sort of a broad principle, but there are some different stories for how I can illustrate that. “Philosophy” is kind of a big word-what does that mean? What does that apply? My lessons working with Simon post-Beijing-we were lucky to have success, so you look back and ask, “What contributed to that?” And Isaid there were three things that were really important for Beijing, and they were conditioning, conditioning and conditioning."
Another in the coach talks series from Triathlete Europe, this time from former ITU World Champion and coach Siri Lindley. Siri has coached an Olympic medallist (2004), and now multiple Ironman World Champions, with Leanda Cave and Mirinda Carefrae, among many others in her elite squad Sirious Athletes. In this interview Siri shares her insight on mental preparation, training camps, and injury prevention:
"I think the biggest thing that everybody can do is if you’re logging your training and you know you’ve been training consistently. doing a great job. working hard every day, and if you’re logging that, it’s important to go back-whether it’s weekly or monthly or before a race-and look at all that work that you’ve done and look at the progress that you’ve made and really get a true confidence boost from that."
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