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This is a great episode with ultra-endurance athlete JD Tremblay.  He's relatively new to Ultra-Endurance Triathlon events and has decided to take on the EPIC Deca.  The EPIC Deca is 10 Ironman Distance Races completed in 10 days on 6 different islands in Hawaii.  You can follow along with JD on the EPIC Deca Facebook page or the website.  They will have ways to track the 10 athletes competing. https://www.facebook.com/groups/epic2022/permalink/1629137130777686/ https://www.epic5.com/epicdeca/ For this Epic Adventure JD is being sponsored by:  Precision Hydration  https://www.precisionhydration.com/us/en/ And  Vélocité Concept http://www.velociteconcept.ca/ Be sure to check them out.   You can check out the swim video analysis I did with JD at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIgdMbZWimxvTRxYsZa5cPg    

An interview with Open Water Swedish National Coach Mikael Rosen.  He is a long time swimmer and coach.  He has competed and coached at the highest levels of the sport and recently wrote a book entitled, Open Water: History and Technique of Swimming.  The book covers 100+ years of swimming history and goes into detail how the best in the sport compete and find success.  Anyone interested in swimming should get this book.  

Great Coffee, Beer, Coaching and Dogs interview with GP Marathon Open Water Swimmer and Coach, Lexie Kelly. We talk about her background in swimming, the coaches who had the most impact on her coaching and racing career.

This an interesting interview with swim coach Don Swartz.  He gave a talk in the early 1980s at an ASCA conference titled, "Nonsense and the Beginner's Mind:  Looking for a Quantum Leap."  It was his challenge to the swim coaching community to look for a better way to train athletes.  It is as relevant then as it is now.  Enjoy.  

Great interview with the inventor of the Brick Kickboard, James Fike.  We spend a good deal of the time talking about his post collegiate swimming career and how even after swimming at the University of Texas he has been able to hit his best times 17 years later.  We also talk about the development of the Brick Kickboard and how he wants to grow Fike Swim going forward.  

in this episode we talk with former NCAA Division I distance swimmer turned triathlete, Erin Sosdian.  Erin is an athlete I have coached for 5 years and the first athlete I coached in swim/bike/run.  We talk about the training that helped to qualify her for 70.3 Worlds and Kona and the process of mastering the skill of racing long distance triathlons.  

Bruce Beall is a long time rowing coach and former US Olympic Rower.  He started his coaching career on the East Coast in the 1970s.  In the early 1980s, he teamed up with Jon Kabat-Zinn on the application of mindfulness on competitive rowers while Beall was the rowing coach at Harvard.  In this episode we talk about that time and what he has learned over the years as coach and where mindfulness fits in.  

Special episode 12 is with Team Veranadra.  Vanessa, Dana, Fernanda and Sandra all came to me a couple years ago and said they wanted to compete in El Cruce - a 10k open water race in Mexico.  This is an interview with Vanessa, Fernanda and Sandra about their training and the race.  It's a fun time with great people who make up Magnolia Masters.  

Episode 24 is an interesting interview with a Alex Coates who is a former professional triathlete and currently working on her PhD in Exercise Physiology with an emphasis on overtraining in athletes.  We discuss some of the long held ideas in endurance training like Super Compensation on how there might be better ways to train.  We also talk about some of the early signs of overtraining or really under recovering and what they might be.  

A couple short, compact interviews with a few of the professional triathletes in attendance at the Magnolia Masters Pro Camp.  We talk about their careers, how and why they became a pro and what their goals are going forward.  

A little trip down amnesia lane with long time professional triathlete Justin Daerr.  We talk about his career in triathlon and his ideas around training and racing.  

Episode 23 is a great interview with Dr. Keith Kaufman.  He is a codeveloper of Mindful Sport Performance Enhancement.  They recently published a book on their protocol for the mental training side of sports enhancement.  There is a growing body of research, particularly for endurance sports, on the importance of the brain in peak performance.  MSPE is a well researched and studied intervention to begin to train the brain for better performance.  

Episode 22 features Jake Rauchbach a basketball coach and integrated player development coach who works and consults with Olympic, professional and collegiate athletes.  Jake has employed high performance mindfulness with players to achieve quantifiable performance increases on the court.  We talk about the opportunities with high performance mindfulness, the obstacles to implementing it with coaches as a consultant and where the future is with these interesting approaches to training the whole athlete.  

Episode 21 is with Dr. Sue Jackson who published in 1999 Flow in Sports.  It's a great book that details athletes in flow states.  She covers all of the pre-conditions for flow to occur and describes some of the unusual perceptions that athletes have while in flow.  If a coach or athlete is looking for untapped potential within their sport this book is a great place to start.  

In this special episode we talk with Magnolia Masters team member Deena Williams.  She shares her story on her successful race at the 11 mile Portland Bridge Swim.  We discuss her training, things that surprised and things that didn't and what it's like to swim 11 miles in Portland without a wetsuit in sub 70 degree water.   Deena has been a great athlete to work with and I look forward to helping her with her next big swim goal.  

Brad Cooper is CEO of a Health and Wellness Company.  He is an 11x Ironman Finisher having competed multiple times at the Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii and at 52 he is completing his PhD on Functional Mental Toughness.     In this episode we dive into what is Mental Toughness and is it possible to cultivate and access it at any time.  Brad has done a lot of interesting work on this topic and is putting together a program so anyone can increase their mental toughness in a race or in their daily lives.      

This is a great episode with some of the athletes who raced Ironman Texas.  Balazs is a long time pro triathlete who I have coached in the swim for the last 5 years.  He's usually one of the fastest swimmers at an Ironman event.  The rougher the water the better.  Kim Pilcher is an age group athlete who I have also coached in the swim for 5 years.  She came to me after she had missed some swim cuts in Ironman and we have gotten now where she can consistently make cuts and she knows what prevents her from making cuts.  Debbie Staton has been on the team for 2 years now and she had a fantastic Ironman Texas swim this year and all of her hard work is paying off.  With all the athletes we talk about how they got into triathlon, what motivates them to continue and what they have learned along the way.      

These were some interviews during the Magnolia Masters Pro Camp in January 2019.  I've held the camp for the last years and it's always a lot of fun with a lot of athletes making some big gains in their swim.  This year I decided to interview a couple of the pros and an age grouper who qualified for Kona.  We talk about their careers leading up to this point and their goals in triathlon.  

A great conversation with Magnolia Masters Team Member, Raul Luzardo.  We talk about his time in endurance sports and his recent race at the Leadville 100 mountain bike race.  

A new format, special episode with three other co-hosts.  We talk about Kona, what the week leading up to the race feels like

A quick chat with Professional Triathlete Jocelyn McCauley about her season, her thoughts on her upcoming race at Kona and why she likes to come to The Woodlands to train in her build.  

Rachel Vickery is a New Zealand physiotherapist who has done research on breath retraining and the impact it can have on performance in competition.  We discuss her original masters thesis that demonstrated how breath retraining could impact the performance of competitive cyclists and then we talk about how she has helped athletes from swimmers through golfers at the Olympic and professional level.    

A special guest episode with local endurance legend TJ Fry.  In this episode we talk about TJ's long history in endurance sports from swimming through triathlon and now his latest in BikePacking the Trans North Georgia Route.  

Pete Kirchmer is the program director for mPEAK based out of the UCSD Center for Mindfulness.  The program was developed in 2014 with the US National BMX team based on the latest neuroscience research around peak performance, resilience, focus and "flow."  We talk about the program and the importance of training the brain for optimal performance in every aspect of life.  

Episode 17 is a talk with Walter Staiano, an exercise scientist, from the University of Valencia.  We discuss his early career as a coach and then his study of how the brain impacts performance.  We also talk about his most recent study about the Danish Jr. National Handball team and the novel brain training intervention they employed successful to increase attention/focus and reaction time.  

A terrific with Ronnie Delzer on his first attempt at running Badwater 135.  He placed 17th overall and finished in just under 34 hours.  We talk about his training leading up to the race and how the race unfolded over the two days of running through Death Valley and up Mt. Whitney.  

In episode 16 we talk with Charlie Cunningham, swim coach at Grand Canyon University.  Charlie has over 35 years of coaching experience and we discuss how training has evolved and his use of parametric training with his swimmers.  

Episode 15 - Alex Hutchinson, Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance.  In the interview we discuss the view of endurance training of the last 100 years and then the discoveries around the brain's impact on performance that have been shown coming out of the exercise science lab.  Alex does a great job of distilling down all of the information and putting all of the understanding into easy to understand terms.  

A fantastic special episode with 2018 Ironman Texas Champion about this past weekends win and his confirmation as the new world record holder of the fastest Ironman ever.  Enjoy.  

A great interview with one of the leading authorities on "flow" states.  We discuss how he got interested in researching flow and what the current research says about "flow."  

A great interview with Carl Valle.  He is an experienced performance coach mainly in track and field and produces a lot of solid online content for coaches.  We discuss his views on motor learning and coaching in general.  

Great interview with David Barra.  David has created and is the race director for some iconic open water marathon swims and has completed the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming in less than 90 days.   We talk about his start in open water marathon swimming and where he thinks the sport is headed.  

Interesting interview with the associate coach at University of Tennessee.  He has worked with a lot of distance swimmers and developed a number of very competitive open water swimmers.  We talk about the lessons he's learned as a coach over the years and the experience he gained working at some of the top developmental programs in the US.  

Episode 10 is an in-depth interview with Peter Ralston.  He was the first westerner to win the full contact world championship martial arts competition in China.  During his training for that tournament he developed his training program for "effortless power."  

A great interview with tennis coach, Scott Ford.  Around 40 years ago he developed a technique for getting into "flow" state or the "zone."  Until that point, it was believed that an athlete stumbled into "flow" or the "zone" at random and there was no way to achieve it at will.  Scott Ford found a way.  

A great interview with Mike Ritland.  Mike is a former Navy SEAL and now owns his own dog training company, Trikos.  He trains military working dogs for the Department of Defense, law enforcement and everyday pet owners.  We had a great discussion on the fundamental principles of training that are equally applicable to people.  

Episode 7 of Coffee, Beer, Coaching and Dogs.  We are lucky to have Jason Goldsmith of Focusabnd with us.  He is a golf coach and has helped to develop the training of golfers with the Focusband and mindful meditiation.  I met Jason last year through Kevin Kirk when I was invited to a discussion by Tom House.  He told me about Focusband and what it did for training and I immediately recognized its potential for training endurance athletes.     If we as coaches are looking for the most efficient ways to train athletes in a particular skill set then we have to focus on how the brain is learning that new skill.  Also, most of coaching is helping an athlete get out of their own way and the focus band can be key in accelerating that process.     I hope you enjoy the discussion today and as always if there are any questions, please let me know.    

This was a great interview with Adrienne Taren, MD, PhD.  Her research has focused on mindfulness and stress in endurance athletes.  This is at the center of a lot of the exciting research taking place around the brain and endurance sports.  

Episode 5 is an interview with the head coach, Terry Jones, of the Magnolia Aquatics Club.  Terry has coached swimming for over 30 years and started the Magnolia program about 13 years ago.  He talks about his successes and failures and what he's learned along the way.  

In episode 4 we talk with Dave Johnson longtime coach and aquatics director of Alamo Area Aquatics Association. We discuss his 40 year career as a coach, some of the athletes he has coached and how his coaching philosophy has changed over that period.  

A short interview with the founder of Lone Pint Brewery, Trevor Brown.  We talk about how he got started brewing, discussion of some new beers he's working on and plans for expansion at Lone Pint. You can always find additional information about this interview on www.cbcdmedia.com.  Cheers.  

This episode is an interview with Dave Ketterer of Circle K9 of Magnolia, Texas.  Dave is a fantastic dog trainer that specializes in shutzhund training and general obedience.  I started to take my dog Max to him a few years ago and was struck by how much the methods he used to train dogs was similar to best coaching practices.  We talk about how he got interested in training, how his philosophy has changed over the years and how he built his successful program and kennel.  As always. an extended article about the podcast can be found at www.cbcdmedia.com.  

Episode 2 is an interview with Kevin Kirk a golf coach in the Woodlands Texas.  We talk about his experiences coaching professional golfers and some of the innovative approaches to training that he has developed.  You can also find a more in depth article of what we discussed at www.cbcdmedia.com

Episode 1 - A short introduction about the Coffee, Beer, Coaching and Dogs podcast and the ideas that have challenged me to become a better coach.  Then we jump right into to an interview with Nick Folker, the founder of Bridge Athletics.  The interview covers the innovative strength and conditioning program developed for swimmers and how Bridge developed a strength and conditioning program for triathletes.