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Hard on the heels of the Paris Olympics, our guest for Leaders Getting Coffee episode 25, is Nigel Avery, Chef de Mission of our Olympic team. Inspired as a seven year old watching John Walker's Olympic Gold medal race in 1976, Avery set his sights on going to the Olympic games. He became one of those most unique New Zealanders who went on to represent the country in three very different sports, namely Track & Field athletics, where he was a national champion, bobsled racing, and Weightlifting where he won two Commonwealth Games gold medals and five medals in total. And yes, although he didn't get onto the podium, one of his own sporting highlights is that he did get represent his country at the Olympic Games. Nigel Avery talks about his own sporting career, including the highs of Commonwealth gold and the frustrations of missing Olympic selection, and how those highs and lows influenced his approach to the role he now plays. We hear about the appointments process to becoming Chef de Mission and the high quality group of leaders and managers put in place to support the New Zealand Olympic team. And we learn about the effort that goes into making sure our athletes feel a sense of belonging in the Olympic environment. The 2024 Paris Olympics saw New Zealand compete at our most successful games ever. A total of 20 medals, including 10 golds, was probably unexpected by most of us. And you'll be surprised at just how hands-on the Chef de Mission role can be, as he shares his unique perspective on the athletes that represented us, the moments of glory, and the disappointments. There is nothing quite like sport to demonstrate success and failure. Elite sport in particular, can be brutal in it's honesty. Bruce and Nigel chat about the fine line between first and second in Hayden Wilde's Olympic triathlon, the celebrations of a medal winning performance and the frustration of fourth place. And what do you think a celebrated sporting champion would do if he was Prime Minister for a day? You might be surprised. In episode 25 of Leaders Getting Coffee we hear another great New Zealand story about an intensely competitive athlete, who became the leader of our best ever Olympic team.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Today we are joined in studio by New Zealand Olympic gold medallist Finn Butcher who is back home after taking the first gold medal in the kayak cross. Finn talks us through the experience, the medal and his Rock 2000 picks. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
It will go down as one of the most embarassing moments in New Zealand Olympic history. Sports reporter Jonty Dine speaks to Lisa Owen about the kiwi pair Max Brown and Grant Clancy etching themsleves in folklore with a dismal display in the men's C2 500m in Paris.
Video released this week showing high-profile Olympic rider, Charlotte Dujardin, whipping a horse has sparked a huge reaction around the globe. This week on Changing Rein, Karen and Meta ask the question - could this be the catalyst to spark much needed change in the horse world? Background information for this episode: Ludger Beerbaum - show jumping (German Olympic medallist) https://www.chronofhorse.com/article/ludger-beerbaum-accused-of-poling-horses-in-german-tv-expose/ “I can't watch anymore” by Julie Taylor https://www.amazon.com.au/Cant-Watch-Anymore-Dropping-Equestrian/dp/8797354309 Feb 2022 Mark Todd - eventing (New Zealand Olympic medallist) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jfs-QQGVeo November 2023 Operation X - dressage (Danish Olympic medallist) https://www.eurodressage.com/2023/11/30/danish-riding-instructor-association-expels-four-riders-based-operation-x May 2024 Danish politician introduces law changes to protect horses in sport https://www.facebook.com/NfuglsangEP/posts/pfbid0NqFXRXLATkSdbVsHnNc5CQBQn9JWqgLUoLTMvdnapgv7U2Z2WhqcMeQ8wLoCVzqHl July 2024 Danish politician posts on Olympic hopeful being removed from the Danish equestrian team for ‘making a mistake' in training her horse https://www.facebook.com/NfuglsangEP/posts/pfbid0FsW3CG5NHMJ5DD6a9nfQKaVgmGuQeLoEcSYkA4jriTzo2yXfdVZW8jhXzyCC2Xjbl Member of public removed from event for recording and pointing out horse abuse to FEI official - Falsterbo Horse Show (Denmark) https://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/a/6336ee/jenny-larmade-om-blodande-hast-polis-tillkallades Charlotte Dujardin - dressage (British Olympic medallist) https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/29433244/gmb-viewers-beg-stop-charlotte-dujardin-horse-video/ ‘Dressage is in trouble' - Paul McGreevy, The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jul/24/dressage-is-in-trouble-where-is-the-line-between-horse-abuse-and-training Research on rider motivation and understanding of horse welfare Broms et al (2020) Super equestrians – the construction of identity/ies and impression management among young equestrians in upper secondary school settings on social media https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2020.1859472 Cousquer (2023). From domination to dialogue and the ethics of the between: Transforming human–working equine relationships in mountain tourism. https://doi.org/10.4067/S0719-81322023000100035 Hogg &Hodgins (2021) Symbiosis or sporting tool? https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11051352 Luke et al (2024) Investigating the Motivational Priorities Underlying Equestrians' Horse-Keeping and Training Practices, https://doi.org/10.1080/08927936.2024.2303228 Luke et al (2024) How equestrians conceptualise horse welfare: Does it facilitate or hinder change? https://doi.org/10.1017/awf.2023.79
It's a proud moment for two athletes after being named New Zealand's flag bearers for the 2024 Olympic games. Track cyclist Aaron Gate and sailing athlete Jo Aleh were formally announced at a ceremony this morning. Two-time Olympian Jo Aleh won gold at London 2012 and Silver in Rio 2016, while four-time Olympian Aaron Gate won Bronze at London 2012. Gate told Mike Hosking it's a special moment, and one that's taken him by surprise. He says 1956 was the last time a track cyclist was named New Zealand's flag bearer, so it's great for his team and for cycling in general. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chef de Mission Nigel Avery says the New Zealand Olympic team has received an apology but wouldn't speculate if any action will be taken against Team Canada following the drone scandal. Barry Guy reports.
Bev calls in from France and Tim's back home in New Zealand. We review the racing from IRONMAN 70.3 Mont Tremblant at the weekend. New Zealand have now confirmed the team going to the Olympics, we give our opinion on the decision. Jay Dicharry, is the acclaimed author of "Running Rewired - Reinvent Your Run for Stability, Strength, and Speed”, in which Jay shares his expertise on the critical role of movement skills and tissue capacity in enhancing athletic performance. Jay explains how athletes can develop the necessary skills and body preparation to achieve their goals and prevent injuries. We share excerpts from our full interview with Jay, out tomorrow. (0:00:00) – Bevan calls in from Vence and there's some sickness in the household. (0:04:52) – Reverse Taper (0:07:22) – The course at Challenge Cagnes sur Mer (0:10:30) – New Zealand Olympic team update (0:25:22) – Infinit Nutrition 10% discount for all listeners with the code FITTER10 (0:25:31) - ULTRO Earbuds 15% discount for all our listeners with the code ULTRO15 (0:25:46) – IM703 Mont Tremblant race review (0:33.30) – A change of bike strategy for Mont Tremblant (0:40:32) – Introduction to Jay Dicharry (0:42:38) – Excerpts from out interview with Jay Dicharry – out tomorrow. LINKS: Infinit Nutrition 10% discount using the code FITTER10 at https://www.infinitnutrition.com.au/ Note: For the code to work you need to have created an account and be logged in. ULTRO Earbuds 15% discount using the code ULTRO15 at https://www.ultroaudio.com/ IRONMAN 70.3 Mont Tremblant at https://www.ironman.com/im703-mont-tremblant Jay Dicharry – Running Rewired: Reinvent Your Run for Stability, Strength, and Speed at https://www.amazon.com/Running-Rewired-Reinvent-Stability-Strength/dp/1646046528/
Well they may have claimed Phar Lap, but New Zealand now has one back over the Aussies in the form of Georgia-Rose Brown. The Australian-born artistic gymnast was today named in the New Zealand Olympic team today for Paris 2024, after officially switching allegiances to Aotearoa in January. Sports reporter Jonty Dine speaks to Lisa Owen.
On today's podcast - which features a number of great guests - It's Only Sport host Martin Devlin is particularly excited for one in the form of longtime All Blacks halfback TJ Perenara. The 32-year-old chats all about his recovery from an Achilles injury suffered in late 2022 and how he's managed to get back into the All Blacks selection picture for 2024.Before that though, Devlin delivers a sermon on swimming. Tuesday was a good day for Kiwi swimmers with the New Zealand Olympic team named for Paris 2024, but a dark cloud continues to hang over the sport, following recent revelations Chinese athletes were somehow cleared of doping despite testing positive for banned substances before the Tokyo Games in 2021.As well as that, Swimming NZ high performance coach Gary Francis joins the show to talk the naming of that Olympic team, Rugby League Hour co-host Tony Kemp delves into Jason Demetriou's sacking as coach of South Sydney, and Wellington Phoenix veteran David Ball talks the team's viewing plans for tonight's Central Coast-Adelaide United A-League football clash that'll decide the winner of the Premiers Plate.Plus, Devlin and producer Lachlan Waugh discuss Demetriou and the wider NRL, Perenara's All Blacks chances, the NBA playoffs, and more on the Tight 5. All that and much more!
Canoe slalom paddler Luuka Jones has joined a select group of New Zealand Olympic athletes. A Rio 2016 Olympic silver medalist, Jones will become just the third New Zealand woman to compete at five Olympics. The others to reach the milestone are shot putter Dame Valerie Adams and board sailor Barbara Kendall. At the Paris Games later this year Jones and Finn Butcher, at his first Games, will be New Zealand's representatives. Sports reporter Felicity Reid speaks to Lisa Owen
In this episode of Run with Fitpage, we have celebrated researcher in the field of High Intensity Interval Training - Dr. Paul Laursen. Dr. Laursen talks about HIIT for runners, how it can impact training, the best ways to implement it and alot more with our host, Vikas Singh. In tandem with his leadership at HIIT Science, Dr. Laursen is the Co-founder and Head of Product for Athletica, contributing to the forefront of sports technology. His insights reach a broader audience as the co-host of the Training Science Podcast. Dr. Laursen's impact extends to the realm of academia, where he served as the former lead of Physiology for New Zealand Olympic athletes and holds the position of Adjunct Professor of Exercise Physiology at Auckland University of Technology.Beyond academic pursuits, Dr. Laursen boasts a remarkable athletic background, having completed an impressive 17 Ironman triathlons. His dedication to coaching is evident as he guides both professional and age-group athletes. Alongside his scientific pursuits, Dr. Laursen is intensely determined to master the craft of cooking the perfect steak. With over 150 scientific manuscripts published and work cited more than 15,000 times, Dr. Paul Laursen stands as a luminary at the crossroads of science, endurance, and high-performance coaching.About Vikas Singh:Vikas Singh, an MBA from Chicago Booth, worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, APGlobale, and Reliance before coming up with the idea of democratizing fitness knowledge and helping beginners get on a fitness journey. Vikas is an avid long-distance runner, building fitpage to help people learn, train, and move better.For more information on Vikas, or to leave any feedback and requests, you can reach out to him via the channels below:Instagram: @vikas_singhhLinkedIn: Vikas SinghTwitter: @vikashsingh101Subscribe To Our Newsletter For Weekly Nuggets of Knowledge!
The Iowa vs. MSU dance off that reminded us why we love NCAA gymnastics More about New Zealand Olympic eligibility, and clarification on how the US elite committee's No-Melanies rule applies to other athletes Jessica is heading to national team camp! What are we most looking forward to seeing 5 months out from the Olympic team being named? College Season—Week 4 Big ranking moves from Kentucky and UCLA, and an important Corrupt or Correct about the Chae Campbell 10.000/9.900 split on floor The scoring broke Bart Conner, plus the major problem of where the judges are sitting Big upsets and emotionally devastating injuries defined the week, and Jessica copes by creating the world's first feet-free beam routine Janelle McDonald's face suffered the best rogue high five of the week, and there was a heinous scoring graphic that destroyed Spencer's life Plus, how many presents does Emma Malabuyo deserve after the travel schedule she is attempting next month? Elite and Gymternet News Gymnastics Australia's CEO stepped down, Georgia did a Very Serious Balloon Violation, which made us reminisce fondly over that time Georgia enjoyed a Broadway show and lost a scholarship the beam layout stepout turned the big 5-0. Plus, your feedback on attending meets in person, best practices for having your teeth knocked out, the scourge of beat jumps and cat leaps, and all this horrible gum chewing! More With Club Gym Nerd Join Club Gym Nerd (or give it as a gift!) for access to weekly Behind The Scenes episodes, dedications, mini-commissions and group commissions Club Gym Nerd members get access to all of our exclusive extended interviews, Behind The Scenes and College & Cocktails episodes. More goodies: Live Show Virtual Season Pass 2024 College & Cocktails menu (including cocktails of course) GymCastic newsletters GymCastic Fantasy Gymnastics League Merch: clothing and gifts for the gymnast or gymnastics fan in your life and even "tapestries" (banners perfect to display in an arena) to support your favorite gymnast RELATED EPISODES Tennessee Tipping Point College & Cocktails Mean Girls Week 1 Big Girl ABC Meet Week 2 Aly's Debut Week 3 Denver vs. Oklahoma Week 4 Feet Aren't Real New Year, Old Habits 2023 Gymnastics Triumphs and Controversies 2024 NCAA Gymnastics Preview Show Dolly Parton Gymnastics Stampede Emergency Gymternet News RESOURCES & CITATIONS NCAA Power Ranking – January 26, 2024 Fisk University roundtable discussion with the six black female head coaches in college gymnastics Spencer's The Balance Beam Situation Gymnastics History and Code of Points Archive from Uncle Tim Follow the effects of the Russian invasion to Ukraine at Gymnovosti The Highest D and E scores from The Gymternet Men's Gymnastics coverage from Kensley Neutral Deductions MORE WAYS TO LISTEN HERE
Today's podcast guest is Dr Dan Plews. Dan is one of our most frequent and popular guests. He and ‘The Prof' Paul Laursen have an on going competition to be at the top of the list with most appearances on the show. It's been a while since I chatted with Dan and since the last conversation he's made a welcome and very successful return to racing, having crossed the line first overall at the 2022 IM New Zealand, and then getting a personal best of 8:18 at Challenge Roth despite a troublesome Achilles. Our chat today is centred around Dan's successful goal to race a ‘fast' Ironman. At Ironman California in October last year he again crossed the line first and posted a 7:56. Dan has a lot going on in his life - a young family, research projects, coaching a group of elite Ironman triathletes, working with the New Zealand Olympic kayak team, and his EndureIQ online education programme. There's a lot to unpick when it comes to how he made this sub-8 happen, including: Finding balance, and why commitment to a goal means saying NO Back to back training for time management How you can always find marginal gains The role of carbs in triathlon performance and why the LCHF approach works for him A huge surprise as Dan declares his new found love for strength training Dan is right up there with some of the smartest (and down to earth) people I know so I hope you enjoy the show! To find out more about Dan please visit these social media channels Dan's personal Instagram - theplews Dan's business Instagram - endure_iq Please check out the new Endure_IQ course on strength & power training for triathletes - In the podcast, Dan talks about fuelling his Ironman races on just 50g of carbs/hour and why he doesn't believe that 120g/hr makes sense. He explains more in this blog post: 120g/hour - deciphering the carbolution craze Also in the conversation Dan mentioned that his goal to race a ‘fast' Ironman was inspired by reading this book: Die with Zero - Bill Perkins To contact Beth regarding Life Coaching, please email her at Info@BethanyWardLifeCoaching.uk. To leave a review of the podcast on Apple podcasts CLICK HERE. Sports Nutrition questions - if you have a sports nutrition question that you would like answered on the podcast, please email it to me via Beth@TheTriathlonCoach.com. Join our SWAT/High Performance Human tribe using this link, with a happiness guarantee! You can watch a brief video about the group by going to our website here, and join our SWAT High Performance Human tribe here. Purchase a copy of my High Performance Human e-book featuring more than 30 top tips on how to upgrade your life. If you would like to help offset the cost of our podcast production, we would be so grateful. Please click here to support the HPH podcast. Thank you! Visit Simon's website for more information about his coaching programmes. Links to all of Simon's social media channels can be found here. For any questions please email Beth@TheTriathlonCoach.com.
Do you want to quit your job, embark on an epic adventure, and build an online business? After leaving his successful career as the trainer for the New Zealand Olympic swimming team, Antonio Cala went on to cycle 25,000 kilometers from California to Patagonia, live on a sailboat for three years, and ride a motorcycle 30,000 kilometers from Spain to Cape Town. Along the way, he founded Adventure Fix, the ultimate online adventure magazine packed with the top travel expeditions, wildlife encounters, and remote places from around the world. In this episode, Antonio and I unpack the lessons he's learned from training Olympians, traveling to over 150 countries, and building a seven-figure business while on the road. You'll hear about the moment when he had to decide between his dream job and a life of travel, how his values influence his choices, why cycling may be the best way to experience a country's culture and people, and how hitching a ride on a sailboat led them to a new life path. You'll also learn how he took $500 and scaled his online business to seven figures without any business experience, why it may not be a good idea to tie your business to your personal life, how we underestimate the power of our minds, and a critical mindset shift you need to be successful. There's a common theme and key piece of advice to take away from this episode – how will you apply it to your own life and travels? I'd love to hear your thoughts and hope you'll share them by sending me an audio message. Premium Passport: Want access to the private Zero To Travel podcast feed, a monthly bonus episode (decided on by YOU), exclusive content, direct access to me to answer your questions, and more? Click here to try Premium Passport for only $1. Tune In To Learn: How Antonio became an Olympic swimming trainer before the age of 30 and what he learned from working with world-class Olympians Antonio's transition to travel and how a one-year plan transformed into a three-year cycling adventure How they financially supported their travels and maintained a budget of $10 a day Their daily life on the road and why cycling is one of the best ways to slow travel How starting a business while traveling affected their experience and why they decided to quit blogging How a spontaneous idea led to living on a sailboat The daily expenses of life on a sailboat and why talking about money is important Their experience motorcycling through West Africa and why they chose that mode of transportation And so much more Resources: Join Zero To Travel Premium Passport Subscribe to our FREE newsletter Today's Sponsors - LifeStraw, Loop Earplugs Sign up for Adventure Fix's weekly email Check out Adventure Fix on Instagram Book recs: Rich Dad Poor Dad, The Psychology of Money Want More? Solo Adventure Cycling Around The World: Epic Bike Rides With Shirine Taylor How To Go Sailing Around The World Lessons from Quitting a Job and Selling Everything to Motorcycle Around the World with Mike Barr Thanks To Our Sponsors This episode is sponsored by LifeStraw Go water bottles. Use the promo code TRAVEL to get 20% off your LifeStraw Go purchase when you visit www.lifestraw.com. Upgrade your sleep at home and on the road! Get 10% off your pair of Loop Earplugs by visiting www.loopearplugs.com/zerototravel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
PRS founder Paul McRae talks about how close he got to making the New Zealand Olympic team, how he found his way to the United States, how PRS Running Club started and how he rallied nearly 100 local runners to qualify for the Boston Marathon. 0:00 Welcome 5:05 Paul McRae 37:30 Paul McRae's gear review 39:47 Paul's advice on choosing a coach
In [S3] Ep20 we interviewed New Zealand Olympic gold medalist Eric Murray, known for dominating in the men's pair with partner Hamish Bond. The wide-ranging conversation covered his terrible novice season, impressive U17 erg splits, World Championship and Olympic training and racing, and a lot more. So much more we couldn't get it all into one episode. In this 15-minute bonus episode, Eric tells us about racing in the 2014 World Championships when Hamish dipped his hand in the water at 38spm, and the preparation necessary to have the confidence to pull that off. He also shares a story about an Amsterdam World Cup race nearly sidetracked by an errant water bottle; hydration and chronic sweating; and dialing in heavy pre-race warmups on land. . Just a heads up: Eric does swear a bit in this episode ... . This bonus episode is made possible in part by the Breakwater Realty Group, Concept2, Lake Washington Rowing Club, and our Patrons. . www.steadystatenetwork.com/podcast . Steady State Podcast is a production of Steady State Network. This episode was written, produced, and edited by Tara Morgan and Rachel Freedman. Rachel also manages our website and social media. Our theme music is by the Free Harmonic Orchestra.
New Zealand Olympic gold medalist Eric Murray is known for dominating in the men's pair with partner Hamish Bond. We know. You might be saying: “An Olympian? I thought you were all about celebrating the everyday rower!” We are. And we always will be. But we have to admit that when Eric reached out and asked to be on the podcast, we had a total fan moment. There was no doubt we'd invite him for a chat. From humble beginnings as an awkward teenage athlete, Eric quickly discovered that being 6'5” translated into impressive erg splits. Coaches noticed too, and he soon found himself on the podium at U16 and U17 events. From there, it was a one way ticket to the national team, World Rowing Championships, and the Olympics. Between 2007 and 2015, a commitment to be the very best brought Eric four indoor rowing world records, eight World Rowing Championships, and two Olympic gold medals. Retired from flat water rowing since 2017, Eric is keeping himself very busy working with Concept2, the Asensei rowing app, and is a member of the World Rowing Indoor Rowing Commission. And if that wasn't enough, he recently took a turn as a contestant on Dancing with the Stars. . Just a heads up: Eric does swear a bit in this episode ... . To see photos of Eric Murray, and to get links to the people, clubs, and events mentioned in this episode, check out the show notes on our website. . This episode is made possible in part by the Breakwater Realty Group, Concept2, Lake Washington Rowing Club, and our Patrons. . Steady State Podcast is a production of Steady State Network. This episode was written, produced, and edited by Tara Morgan and Rachel Freedman. Rachel also manages our website and social media. Our theme music is by the Free Harmonic Orchestra.
We talk about Matt's time as coach of the New Zealand Olympic surfing team and the experiance of the event. What the role of a surf coach is at the Olympics and how his role as surf coach to the average surfer has evolved and adpated post Covid + much more. For 20% off the academy:Code - SURFMASTERY20 for 20% off the academyLink-https://www.theartofsurfing.com/taos-academy-membershipAnyone that joins the November cohort put SURFMASTERY in the comments box during checkout and they will be emailed their 100% off code for 1 year of the academy.Link-https://www.theartofsurfing.com/remote-coachingMatt's Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/theartofsurfing/?hl=enMatt's first episode (ep 05):https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/podcast-surf-mastery/id1088660076?i=1000365196083www.surfmastery.comThank you Matt Scorringe
We talk about Matt's time as coach of the New Zealand Olympic surfing team and the experiance of the event. What the role of a surf coach is at the Olympics and how his role as surf coach to the average surfer has evolved and adpated post Covid + much more. For 20% off the academy:Code - SURFMASTERY20 for 20% off the academyLink-https://www.theartofsurfing.com/taos-academy-membershipAnyone that joins the November cohort put SURFMASTERY in the comments box during checkout and they will be emailed their 100% off code for 1 year of the academy.Link-https://www.theartofsurfing.com/remote-coachingMatt's Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/theartofsurfing/?hl=enMatt's first episode (ep 05):https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/podcast-surf-mastery/id1088660076?i=1000365196083www.surfmastery.comThank you Matt Scorringe
Cross training has been viewed in two ways, One, as the best thing for athletes who are looking to perform at a high level in their sport and two, as time taken away from further developing that sport. When considering children's sports, the topic is even more debated. Today on Faster we talk with Matt Kritz who specializes in strength training athletes in multiple disciplines. His time with the New Zealand Olympic program lead, him to develop a movement screen and a prescriptive way to get athletes to progressively load their bodies with strength training to better prepare them for their sport. During that time, he's also developed theories around cross training for athletes of all ages. Listen to this episode to learn what type of cross training can make you and your kids faster.Watt Points: 50
Season 4 Ep 35, we chat with New Zealand Olympic and World Championship medallist coach Gary Hollywood. In this awesome podcast we chat to Gary about his amazing Tokyo Olympic experience with the NZ team and his superstar athlete Lewis Clareburt. Gary tells us what an enjoyable experience the games were for him and what lessons he took away. We also discuss Polyvagel, what it means and how it has been helping Gary become a better coach and what advice he has for other coaches out there who are interested in it. We talk about his home club Capital Swim Club and the team culture there, and a whole lot more NEW MERCH ALERT - Our brand new OTB Crew shirts have arrived, click the link below to purchase your original OTB Crew T today and become a part of the Crew https://www.offtheblocksswimmingacademy.com/otb-crew-merchandise/p/style-01-wll4k
This week on the podcast Mikki chats to Dr Paul Laursen (The Prof) all about his research in high intensity training and how to apply it, his training platform athletica.ai and his latest thoughts on COVID 19 (Paul and Dr Phil Maffetone appeared in the third episode of Mikkipedia. Paul Laursen is the Former lead of Physiology for New Zealand Olympic athletes and Adjunct Professor of Exercise Physiology at Auckland University of Technology. He is now based in Canada where he contributes to research studies in his academic capacity, and is the co-founder of the online course HIIT science (also a textbook) where thousands of people are learning how to apply the science of HIIT training to achieve better sport performance outcomes. Paul is a world renown specialist in: high-intensity interval training, low-carb diets, ketosis, heart rate variability, thermal physiology, health and artificial intelligence. He has published over 135 scientific manuscripts, with work cited more than 10,000 times. He is also an accomplished athlete, and has competed in 17 Ironman triathlons, while relishing the art of coaching both professional and age-group athletes. Paul is also intensely determined to master the craft of cooking the perfect steak Links:Paul Laursen: https://www.paullaursen.com/Mikkipedia Episode 3: https://podcast.mikkiwilliden.com/3Athletica AI https://athletica.ai/HIIT Science https://hiitscience.com/Perfect Storm (Paul and Dr Maffetone's paper) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32391307/
Coach of the New Zealand Olympic gold medal winning eight - Tony talks to us about his journey as a coach. Timestamps 01:00 My journey as a coach - Trinity College Dublin women and novices squads. I became a better rower because of having coached. 03:30 Coaches speak a lot of rubbish. I learned quickly not to say anything that doesn't add value. My little notebook of ideas. 06:50 Rowing drills - your only limit is your imagination The Steve Fairbairn influence 09:30 Do all athletes become coaches? Being a learner and a teacher is different 13:30 My final race as an athlete was 2002 LM2- I became the coach of the national team alongside Thor Nilsen. I felt guilty about jumping to the top of coaching to justify myself in I coached novices 2017 I coached the New Zealand junior - Alan Cotter and Barrie Mabbett invited me to discuss my future 19:30 I got approached again in 2019 for an eight to qualify for Tokyo - a 3 month engagement. 21:00 Qualifying didn't happen in 2019. We need to move together better. Finding the middle ground to get a boat moving. 25:00 If the crew had qualified in 2019 I don't think we would have won the Olympic gold medal. The project almost came to a halt. Sending a crew to Final Qualification Regatta - we were closer to the gold medal standard than others who had medaled and qualified in 2019 27:00 We instilled a better culture in the team The women's team were our shining light - everything they did with positivity and honesty. Pivotal discussions, arguments, tears, shouting matches - we did them all. The tight team - teach the rower to teach themselves. Tom Macintosh is 22 and he stood up and said wha he thought which took courage. 32:00 Know who you are working with - put your dreams in their hands 34:00 seating decisions. We weren't happy at selection. We took 21 days and we tried everything. In any crew there is a magical seating that can gain you distance 39:00 Moving Shaun Kirkham from 3 to 7 seat. 45:00 In Tokyo we went into the repecharge - this was a key moment. You can put some mistakes to bed in a repecharge. The 250-500m section of the race was scratchy. Rate 41 and really in our head 2nd was a good result behind the Dutch. We agreed to chat tonight. It was a "schoolmaster moment". Our next time of the water before the Tokyo Olympic final we did 2 drills - in pairs doing feathered rowing to feel the boat work. And slap catches - try to break the oar to tire out the shoulders make the crew more relaxed. We practiced hitting 38 in our pieces. We had re-iterated our rhythm,. We had to live or die by our rhythm. 50:00 In the final we called stride twice firstly fro 47 down to 42 and the cox Sam Bosworth called it 3 times in the final. 54:00 Sean Colgan told us that the best time to attack is when everyone else is buggered. Tony did not watch the olympic Final but he managed to see the crew come across the line. I don't watch rowing races.....
Emma Twigg is a four times New Zealand Olympic rower and former World Champion. At the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, Twigg won gold in the woman's single scull.Emma joins us from MIQ in ChristchurchSupport NZ podcasters at www.beardyboy.nz/DOC with world class coffeewww.theDOC.nzwww.instagram.com/patbrittendenwww.twitter.com/patbrittenden
Friday frenzy....Fabulous Friday...Fri-yay.....call it what you want...it's a day to celebrate...with gold and silver medals raining down on the New Zealand Olympic rowing team. Emma Twigg flew through the women's single sculls to secure gold....and the men's eight dominated the field...to secure the same colour medal round their necks. The women's eight also got a podium finish - claiming silver. And in Tokyo....the day is still young, with more Kiwis gunning for gold... Olympics reporter Clay Wilson joins Lisa Owen from the scene of today's golden hour. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6265827829001
The New Zealand Olympic team now has a silver and a bronze medal, and in a few hours they get the chance to complete the set with a gold. NZ will face Fiji in the Men's Rugby Sevens final at 9pm Wednesday (NZ Time). RNZ sport reporter Clay Wilson is outside Tokyo Stadium and joins Lisa Owen with the details.
Season 4 Ep 11, with action kicking off in Tokyo for the Olympic Games we look back at our chats with 4 of the Superstar Swimmers representing NZ at their first Olympic Games. Four absolute legends, we are so thankful to have them as friends of the podcast and we wish them and the rest of the NZ team all the best over the next week.
The Football Ferns will take a knee before their first match at the Olympic Games tonight. They're kicking off their Games campaign at 11:30pm against Australia. The head of the New Zealand Olympic team, Rob Waddell, says he fully supports the players as they become some of the first Olympic athletes to advocate for social justice under new IOC guidelines. RNZ sports reporter Clay Wilson is in Tokyo with the latest.
Lisa Carrington will attempt to paddle her way into the New Zealand Olympic records books in Tokyo. The two-time Games champion is doubling her workload to contest four events in Japan. With gold medals possible in each event, Carrington has the chance to become New Zealand's most successful athlete not just at one Games, but in the country's Olympic history. She isn't the only canoeist in contention, either, with canoe slalom star Luuka Jones the silver medallist from the 2016 Rio Games. Olympic reporter Clay Wilson details the New Zealand paddlers' hopes.
Lisa Carrington will attempt to paddle her way into the New Zealand Olympic records books in Tokyo. The two-time Games champion is doubling her workload to contest four events in Japan. With gold medals possible in each event, Carrington has the chance to become New Zealand's most successful athlete not just at one Games, but in the country's Olympic history. She spoke to Olympic reporter Clay Wilson about the challenge in store for her in Tokyo.
Lisa Carrington will attempt to paddle her way into the New Zealand Olympic records books in Tokyo. The two-time Games champion is doubling her workload to contest four events in Japan. With gold medals possible in each event, Carrington has the chance to become New Zealand's most successful athlete not just at one Games, but in the country's Olympic history. She spoke to Olympic reporter Clay Wilson about the challenge in store for her in Tokyo.
Lisa Carrington will attempt to paddle her way into the New Zealand Olympic records books in Tokyo. The two-time Games champion is doubling her workload to contest four events in Japan. With gold medals possible in each event, Carrington has the chance to become New Zealand's most successful athlete not just at one Games, but in the country's Olympic history. She isn't the only canoeist in contention, either, with canoe slalom star Luuka Jones the silver medallist from the 2016 Rio Games. Olympic reporter Clay Wilson details the New Zealand paddlers' hopes.
Hayden Wilde will be the first to tell you the last 3-4 years have been huge as he pursued his goal of trying to qualify for the Olympics in triathlon, following a background in more off-road endurance sports. When the Covid outbreak began in 2020, the young New Zealander wouldn't have foreseen not racing abroad for 22 months. He made the most of his time, becoming 2x National Champion in the 5,000m on the track and also spent quality time with friends and family. He returned to triathlon action with a 5th place finish at WCTS Leeds and is one to watch heading into the Tokyo Olympics and beyond. You'll hear 08:27 Hayden talk about leaving New Zealand for the first time in 22 months and what it was like travelling to Europe having had so much freedom during the Covid outbreak in NZ 14:54 Hayden says if racing hadn't been on the cards, he would have been happy staying in New Zealand but "Watching racing continuing was pretty gutting. I just wanted to get out and do what I love to do and get my job back to normality." 16:20 Was Hayden surprised with his 5th place finish and running alongside Alex Yee who would go on to win the race? 19:45 About his rapport with Alex Yee "I really rate him as an athlete and as a person too. I am absolutely stoked for him to get that Olympic sport. There's about 3 or 4 months between us and there are going to be a lot of battles over the next few years. Our track times are pretty similar, our swimming is the same, I just have a better power to weight ratio on the bike, but the way he performed in Leeds was awesome to see. It's going to be an exciting few years for Hayden and Alex" 22:23 What does being a strong runner bring to the mix when it comes to confidence? "All these track times are well and good, but the reality is it's a different game running off the bike" 24:35 His hopes of representing New Zealand in the 5,000m on the track at the Tokyo Olympics. He made the criteria to qualify for selection for the New Zealand Olympic team for the 5,000m, but he did not make the team. 29:15 "Back in primary school I used to do a bit of cross country, but I only really played football and hockey and only started to do half marathons when I was 16 or 17, but they were mainly off-road. I just had such a big base when I was young and when I transferred to triathlon four years ago, I just needed to find the right coach to build on top of that and get some speed into me." 31:15 How he met his coach Craig Kirkwood at a local running race (which Hayden won) and his coaching team around him 31:41 Why Hayden prefers to train alone and bases himself in Tauranga, a beach town, away from the Triathlon New Zealand team. "It makes me balanced and extremely relaxed coming into races. I can do things other than work. Mentally I just really like it and if I train with others it just doesn't work for me. When I train with others, yes it pushes me, but I'm lucky because I can push myself pretty hard." 39:50 His love for boats, boat flipping and having a project on his hands, so he can go out fishing enjoy the New Zealand summer, not not talk shop and enjoy life and time with friends and family. 47:24 Him reflect on his victory at Coast to Coast in 2015 "man, how did I paddle 80km for like 4 hours and not be too tired? It was a battle, but it was fun! Being that young, you just sort of go full-gas." 50:0 If he misses the more relaxed nature of Xterra triathlon and more off-road sports and why he might be heading to Maui later in 2020 54:52 What he was doing when the OlympicTriathlon was taking place at the Rio Olympics in 2016. "After Rio was actually when I made the transfer to triathlon. I've had the normal four year cycle! I knew the household names, but going to my first World Series was like 'woah, these are the guys you watch on TV" It has been quite a surreal 3 or 4 years" 01:00:25 His tattoo which he got done for his Dad who passed away 14 years ago. Find out more... Support this podcast
The New Zealand Olympic triathlon team for Tokyo has been named - but there's a been controversy over the selection process. 11th ranked Hayden Wilde will spearhead the quartet.Tayler Reid's been given the second men's spot over the higher-ranked Sam Ward.Several athletes appealed their omissions, but the retirement of Sophie Corbidge has paved the way for the naming of Ainsley Thorpe and Nicole van der Kaay in the women's.Sports broadcaster Mark Watson told D'Arcy Waldegrave that he is a big believer in sending the best athletes to the Olympics, and Ward should have been picked, and has been devastated by the choice"The believe for the nature of this relay that Taylor Reid perhaps offers a little bit more."He says that he wants to know how many opportunities Ward received to compete in the races. And he does not believe that the two women selected are worthy enough to be called Olympians - noting that other competitors have missed out on going to the Olympics by seconds who would have been more worthy of representing New Zealand. "If they aren't good enough, don't send them."LISTEN ABOVE
In a weekly update of the latest from the news media, Hayden Donnell speaks with Karyn Hay about the media coverage of today's Covid scare in Wellington. He also looks at online comments about this afternoon's 1pm Covid-19 media briefing, and also at the media surrounding weightlifter Laurel Hubbard's inclusion in the New Zealand Olympic team.
Kiwi weightlifter Laurel Hubbard will make history at the Tokyo Olympics, becoming the first transgender athlete to compete. The 43-year-old is one of five weighlifting athletes selected for the New Zealand Olympic team. She is tipped as a medal contender in the women's super heavyweight category. Kristen Worley is a former world-class cyclist turned international diversity advisor and trans-rights advocate. Born in New Zealand, she is now based in Canada.
Kiwi weightlifter Laurel Hubbard will make history at the Tokyo Olympics, becoming the first transgender athlete to compete. The 43-year-old is one of five weighlifting athletes selected for the New Zealand Olympic team. She is tipped as a medal contender in the women's super heavyweight category. Kristen Worley is a former world-class cyclist turned international diversity advisor and trans-rights advocate. Born in New Zealand, she is now based in Canada.
Becoming a championship medalist — or an Olympic medalist — is an ambitious goal that many athletes dream of. But are we training the right way? In reality, training to be an Olympic runner is more than just stretching your physical limits; it's also about your recovery, mental strength, environment and so much more. In this episode, famed Olympic runner Rod Dixon joins us to talk about his journey in becoming an Olympic medalist and his victory at the NYC marathon. He shares why creating a strong foundation is crucial, no matter what you’re training for. If you want to learn from and be inspired by one of New Zealand’s greatest runners, then this episode is for you! Get Customised Guidance for Your Genetic Make-Up For our epigenetics health programme all about optimising your fitness, lifestyle, nutrition and mind performance to your particular genes, go to https://www.lisatamati.com/page/epigenetics-and-health-coaching/. 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Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode: Discover the necessary foundation an Olympic runner used to create a solid training base. Learn to believe in yourself and avoid being influenced by others. Understand how to build a strong mentality to handle self-doubt and hesitation. Resources Gain exclusive access and bonuses to Pushing the Limit Podcast by becoming a patron! You can choose between being an official or VIP patron for NZD 7 and NZD 15 per month, respectively. Check out the different benefits of each in the link. Rod’s KiDSMARATHON is a running and nutrition educational programme organised to help children in the United States and the world! Check out his website. Connect with Rob: LinkedIn Episode Highlights [05:01] How Rod Grew Up with Running Rod shares that his brother John was a significant part of his running career. John helped coach Rod while Rod was young. He fondly remembers his time growing up and always running from place to place. His father used to explore and travel around Australia by bike, while his mother played basketball and did gymnastics. [11:42] Early Years of Training Learn by doing. You can run the same race twice, but don’t expect a different result when you do everything the same. Run differently. Rod grew up loving cross country racing, especially the beach races through dunes. It was during this time that he was inspired to reach for the 1968 Olympics. His brother, John, immediately put him on a training regimen. Once you have a goal, you need to know how to reach it and what you’re prepared to do for it. Multiple amazing runners inspired Rod to keep going for his goal. Tune in to find out who! [19:13] Approach to the Foundations Get the timing right first, not the miles. The foundation is to start with running long and slow. Rod's brother, John, also helped keep a logbook of his training. This enabled them to narrow down what to improve and work on. Athletes don’t get better from training; improvement comes from rest and recovery. Learn to prioritise your health. This will bring more results than just pushing yourself too hard on your training all the time. Know that there’s a period for different types of training. There will be times when you’ll need to set your foundations and conditioning right first. [25:20] Rod’s Journey Towards Becoming an Olympic Runner Getting acclimated to an area is essential to planning an Olympic runner’s training regimen. With the help of John, Rod realised he was a strength runner. This knowledge became crucial in planning for his races. When you train with runners, it will be a race. Train with marathon runners, and it will be a long and slow run. Choose your training partners based on your needs. Rod’s training with runners helped him learn more than just racing. His nutrition improved, too. Listen to the full episode for Rod’s exciting account of his Olympic journey—from qualifications to his training! [36:47] Handling Self-Doubt Rod shares that he also had bouts of self-doubt. During these times, he would look for his brother John, his mother and his grandmother. Ground yourself and just run, not for training but to clear your head and be in the moment. In a lot of things, confidence matters more than ability. The more confident you are, the more it will bring out your ability. Don’t be influenced by bad habits. What matters is finishing the race. Finishing in itself is already a win. [42:02] Life as a Professional Athlete Training effectively resulted in Rod becoming an Olympic runner, medalist and breaking records. Rod shares that he works full-time in addition to taking on small jobs to balance the costs. Tune in to the episode to hear the ups and downs of being an Olympic runner and a professional athlete. [50:07] Transition from Short to Long Races After his experiences as an Olympic runner, Rod wanted to focus on cross country and longer races. Once you have your foundations, you will need to adjust your training for long races. It's not going to be much different from what you're already doing. Rod shares that he had to work towards the NYC marathon through conquering half marathons and many other experiences. Build on your experiences and learn to experiment. Rod discusses his training in the full episode! [1:04:47] Believe in Your Ability When preparing for a big race, you need to protect your mindset and remember that running is an individual sport — it's all about you. Don’t be influenced by others. Learn to pace yourself and run your own race. A race starts long before you set your foot on the track. Listen to the full episode for Rod’s recounting of the NYC marathon. [1:21:23] Build and Develop Your Mentality People will often hesitate when they face a hill. When you’re in this situation, just keep going. Sometimes, some things won’t happen the way you want them to. But certainly, your time will come. 7 Powerful Quotes from This Episode ‘John would tell me. He said, ‘You know, you've run the same race twice expecting a different result.’ He said, ‘You've got to run differently.’ 'He said, 'You know, you set a goal, but I won't tell you how to do it. So, you've got to figure out what you're prepared to do. And I think, [it was] then [that] I realised it was my decision making and I had to focus.' ‘You don't improve when you train, you improve when you recover.’ ‘Just remember to learn by doing.’ ‘I just thought this [the race] is about me. It's not about anybody.’ ‘I learned all that in my road racing. That sometimes, you just can't run away from people, but you can find out their vulnerable moments. And when they would come into a hill, they would hesitate because they’d look up the hill. And that's when you try.’ 'My mother had said that sometimes, things won't happen the way you want them to. Sometimes, you know, you're watching this, but your time will come at another point or another time. And I realised then what she was saying when I had one that was my defining moment. It just took longer than average.' About Rod Rod Dixon is one of the most versatile runners from New Zealand. For 17 years, Rod continuously challenged himself with races. His awards include a bronze medal from the 1972 Olympic 1500m, two medals from the World Cross Country Championship and multiple 1500m championship titles from the United States, France, Great Britain and New Zealand. But most importantly, he is well-known for his victory at the 1983 New York City Marathon. Now, Rod is passionate about children's health and fitness due to the lack of physical exercise and nutrition among children. 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To pushing the limits, Lisa Transcript Of The Podcast Welcome to Pushing the Limits, the show that helps you reach your full potential with your host, Lisa Tamati, brought to you by lisatamati.com. Lisa Tamati: Your host here, Lisa Tamati. Great to have you with me again. And before we head over to this week's exciting guest, just want to remind you, we have launched our premium membership for our patron programme for the podcast. So if you are loving the content, if you're enjoying it, if you're finding benefit in it and you want to help us keep getting this good content out to people, then we would love your support. And we would love to give you some amazing premium membership benefits as well. Head on over to patron.lisatamati.com. That's P-A-T-R-O-N patron.lisatamati.com, and join our exclusive membership club, only a couple of dollars a month. It's really nothing major. But what it does is it helps us make this content possible. 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So right food, the right exercise, the right timings of the day, what your dominant hormones are, what social environments will energise you what physical environments, what temperatures, what climates, what places? All of these aspects are covered in this ground-breaking programme that we've been running now for the past few years. It's really a next level programme that we have. So check out our epigenetics programme. You can go to epigenetics.peakwellness.co.nz, that's epigenetics, dot peak wellness.co dot.nz or just hop on over to my website, if that's a little bit easier, at lisatamati.com, and hit the work with us button and you'll see all of our programmes there. Right over to the show now with an amazing guest who is one of my heroes, a hero from my childhood actually. Now I have Rod Dixon to guest. Rod Dixon, for those who don't know who he is, maybe you were born only in the past 20 years or so, and you really don't know. But if you're around when I was a kid, this guy was an absolute superstar. He is a four-times Olympian; he won a bronze medal at the 1972 Olympics. He's a runner, obviously, he won in the 1500 meters bronze medal. He's won multiple times championships and cross-country running, and who really one of his biggest successes was to win the New York City Marathon and absolute mammoth feats to do back in 1983. So hope you enjoy the insights that Rod Dixon is going to provide for you today. If you're a runner, you will love this one. But even if you just love interesting, amazing people then check out this interview with Rod Dixon. Lisa: Well, welcome everybody. Today. I have an absolute legend with me on the show. I have Rod Dixon, one of my heroes from way back in the day, Rod, welcome to the show. It's wonderful to have you on Pushing the Limits. Thanks for taking the time. Rod Dixon: Lisa, thank you. I mean, of course, I've known about you and read about you but this is our first time, and it's come about through the pandemic. So, some good things have come out of this. Lisa: There’s definitely some good things come out of it. And I've definitely known about you sort of pretty much my entire, since I was a little kid. So you’re one of my heroes back in the day, so I was like, ‘Oh, wow’. And the funny thing is, we got to meet through a friend in America who just happened to know you. And I was talking with them, and they're like, and I'm like, ‘Can you introduce me?’ Via America we've come, but to get you to Kiwi, so wonderful to have you on the show, Rod. Rod, you hardly need an introduction. I think people know sort of your amazing achievements as an athlete and runner are many, and we're going to get into them. I think one of the biggest, most incredible things was winning the 1983 New York City Marathon. And that iconic image of you with your hands in the air going, and that guy behind you not such good shape. That's one of the most famous images there is. But Rod, can you tell us a little bit about your story, where you came from, how did that you were such a good runner? Give us a bit of background on you. Rod: I think, Lisa, I started… I was born in Nelson, and living out at Stoke, which is just not far out. And my brother, John, three years older, he went to Stoke Primary School. And so, I was in a centre, I think. And my mother came out to check on me. And there’s a young Rod, and he sees, and he said in the centre, ‘I'll go and take my shower now’. And that was my chance to then put all the things that I've learned of how to climb over the gate. And I climbed over the gate, then off I went. My mother got the phone call from the Stoke school. ‘Where is your son, Rodney?’ He said, ‘Oh he’s at the back, hanging in the sand’, and she's, ‘No, well, he's down here at the Stokes school with his brother’. Because we used to walk John down to school and walk and go and meet him to walk him back. And so, I knew that way. And here is my chance, so I think, Lisa, I started when I was four years old, when I ran out. Lisa: When you are escaping? And your brother John. I mean, he was a very talented, amazing runner as well. And actually, he's got into it before you did. Tell us a little bit of his story, because he was definitely been a big part of your career as well. Tell us about John a little bit. Rod: Yeah, well, my mother's family were from Mishawaka. They're all farmers. And fortunately, they were tobacco farmers, hot guns, and sheep and cattle. And so, we would be over with the family a lot of the time. And of course, a big farm, and John would always say, ‘Let's go down and catch some eels’ or ‘Let's go chase the rabbits’. And so we're on, outside running around all over time. And I think, then we used to have running races. And John would say, ‘Well, you have 10 yards and say, for 20 yards, 50 yards, and see if you can beat me down to the swing bridge.’ And I would try, and of course he’d catch me. So, there was always this incredible activity between us. And my dad was a very good runner, too. And so, we would go down for our, from the north we’ll go down to the beach for swim. Pretty well, most nights we could walk and run down there. So we would all run down. And then we would run along the beach to the estuary, and run back again. And then my dad, of course, he would stride out and just make sure that we knew our packing order. Slowly but surely, you see John waited for his moment where he beat dad. And I think, dad turned around and came back to me and he said, ‘I won't run with John, I'll just run with you’. So, I knew what the story was that I had to do the same, but it took me another couple of years before I could beat my dad. So, running was very much an expression, very much part of us. We’d run to school, we’d run home. I would deliver the newspapers in the neighbourhood, most of the time I would run with dad. So, and then at 12 years old, I was able to join the running club, the Nelson Amateur Athletic Harriot and Cycling Club. There’s three or four hundred in the club, and it was just incredible because it was like another extension of the family. And so we would run on farms and golf courses and at the beach or at the local school, sometimes the golf cart would let us run on the golf club. So, there was this running club. So the love of running was very part of my life. Lisa: And you had a heck of a good genetics by the sound of it. You were just telling me a story, how your dad had actually cycled back in the 40s, was this around Australia, something like 30,000 miles or something? Incredible, like, wow, that's and on those bikes, on those days. And what an incredible—say he was obviously a very talented sports person. Rod: I think he was more of an adventurer. We’ve got these amazing pictures of him with his workers in those days, they have to wear knee high leather boots. He’s like Doctor Livingstone, explorer. And so he was exploring and traveling around Australia, just his diaries are incredible. What he did, where he went, and everything was on the bike, everything.. So, it was quite amazing, that endurance, I think you're right, Lisa... Lisa: You had it in there. Rod: ...there’s this incredible thing and genetically, and my mother, she played basketball, and she was very athletic herself and gymnast. So I think a lot of that all came together for us kids. Lisa: So you definitely had a good Kiwi kid upbringing and also some very, very good genetics, I mean, you don't get to the level that you have with my genetics that much. We're just comparing notes before and how we're opposite ends of the running scale, but both love running. It’s lovely. So Rod, I want to dive in now on to a little bit of, some of your major achievements that you had along the way and what your training philosophies were, the mentors that you had, did you follow somebody and started training? Who were you— so, take me forward a little bit in time now to when you're really getting into the serious stuff. What was your training, structure and stuff like back in the day? Rod: Well, it's very interesting, Lisa. This was after did, in fact, incredibly, he was working, and with Rothmans, and he would travel the country. And he would come to the running clubs to teach the coaches, to impart his principles and philosophy with the coaches. And my brother being three years older, I think he tended to connect with that more so, as younger kids. And but we were just pretty impressed, and Bill Bailey used to come in as a salesperson, and he would come and we'd all go out for lunch with Bill and he would tell stories. And we were fascinated by that, and encouraged by it, and inspired by it. So, I think what John did, as we started, John will get to Sydney in 1990. And he noticed that young Rodney was starting to — our three favourite words, Lisa, it’s learned by doing. So I would learn from this race and I would adopt something different. I would try. When I knew, I mean, John would tell me, he said, ‘You've run the same race twice expecting a different result.’ He said, ‘You've got to run differently’. And I would go out train with John and then he would say, ‘Okay, now you turn around and go back home because we're going on for another hour’. So he knew how to brother me, how to look after me or study. And so really, as I started to come through, John realised that maybe Rodney has got more talent and ability than I do. So, he started to put more effort into my training and that didn't really come to us about 18. So, he allowed those five, six years just for club running, doing the races, cross-country. I love cross country — and the more mud and the more fences and the more steep hills, the better I ran. And so that cross country running say I used to love running the beach races through the sand dunes. And I love trackless, fascinated with running on the grass tracks because of Peter Snell and yeah Murray Halberg. And also too fascinated with the books like The Kings Of Distance and of course, Jack Lovelock winning in 1936. One of the first things I wanted to do was to go down to Timaru Boys High School and hug the oak tree that was still growing there, 80 years old now, Lisa because they all got a little oak sapling for the end, and that is still growing at Timaru Boys High School, Lisa: Wow. That was so special. Rod: There's a lot of energy from all around me that inspired me. And I think that's what I decided then that I was going to take on the training, John asked me, and I said yes. And he said, ‘What do you want to do?’ And he said, and I said, ‘Well, I just listened to the 1968 Olympics on my transistor radio’ — which I tell kids, ‘That was Wi-Fi, wireless’. And I said, I want to go to the Olympics one day. And he said, ‘Right, well, they know you've made the commitment’. Now, obviously, during the training, John would say, ‘Well, hold on, you took two days off there, what's going on? So, that’s okay’, he said, ‘You set a goal, but I told you how to do it. So you've got to figure out what you're prepared to do’. And I think then I realised it was my decision making and I had to focus. So I really, there was very, very few days that I didn't comply — not so much comply — but I was set. Hey, my goal, and my Everest is this, and this is what it's going to take. Lisa: And that would have been the 19, so 1972. Rod: No, 1968. Lisa: 1968. Okay. Rod: So now, I really put the focus on. Then we set the goal, what it would take, and really by 1970 and ‘70 or ‘71, I made the very, my very first Kewell Cross Country Tour. And I think we're finishing 10th in the world when I was just 20. We realised that that goal would be Olympics, that’s two years’ time, is not unreasonable. So, we started to think about the Olympics. And that became the goal on the bedroom wall. And I remember I put pictures of Peter Snell, Ron Clark and Jim Ryun and Kip Keino on my wall as my inspiration. Lisa: Your visualisation technique, is that called now, your vision board and all that. And no, this was really the heyday of athletics and New Zealand, really. I mean, you had some, or in the 70s, at least, some other big names in the sport, did that help you — I don't think it's ever been repeated really, the levels that we sort of reached in those years? Rod: No, no. know. It certainly is because there was Kevin Ross from Whanganui. He was 800, 1500. And then there's Dick Tyler, because he went on incredibly in 1974 at the Commonwealth Games, but Dick Quax, Tony Polhill, John Walker wasn't on the scene until about ‘73 right. So, but, here are these and I remember I went to Wanganui to run 1500. And just as a 21-year-old and I beat Tony Polhill who had won the British championships the year before. So we suddenly, I realised that — Lisa: You’re world class. Rod: First with these guys, I can — but of course, there were races where I would be right out the back door. And we would sit down with it now, was it tactics, or was it something we weren't doing in training, or was it something we overdid the train. And we just had to work that out. It was very, very feeling based. Lisa: And very early in the knowledge like, now we have everything as really — I mean, even when I started doing ultramarathons we didn't know anything. Like I didn't even know what a bloody electrolyte tablet was. Or that you had to go to the gym at all. I just ran, and I ran slow and I ran long. And back then I mean, you did have some—I mean absolutely as approach what’s your take on that now like looking back and the knowledge we have now that sort of high mileage training stalls. What's your take on that? Rod: Well, John realised, of course I am very much the hundred mile a week. John realised that and the terrain and I said, ‘I don't want to run on the right job. I just don't like that.’ He said, ‘Okay, so then, we’ll adapt that principle, because you like to run on the cross-country and mounds all around Nelson’. Yeah. And, and so we adapted, and I think I was best around the 80, 85 miles, with the conditioning. There would be some weeks, I would go to 100 because it was long and slow. And we would go out with the run to the other runners. And the talk test showed us how we were doing. At 17, I was allowed to run them, Abel Tasman National Park. And of course, the track was quite challenging in those days, it wasn’t a walkway like it is now. And so you couldn't run fast. And that was the principle behind bringing us all over there to run long and slow. And just to get the timing rather than the miles. Lisa: Keep it light then, the time is for us to use it. Rod: So, he used to go more with time. And then after, we’d come to Nelson and he would give John time. And John would, of course, I would have to write everything down in my diary. And John would have the diaries there. And he would sit with Arthur and I would go through them. And afterwards, we would give a big check, and say that ‘I liked it. I like this, I liked it. I like to see you doing this’. And because we're still the basic principles of the period with the base as the foundation training, as you go towards your competitive peak, you're starting to narrow it down and do shorter, faster, or anaerobic work and with base track. And John, we just sit straight away, you don't improve when you train, you improve when you recover. Lisa: Wow, wise. Rod: Recovered and rest and recovery. Lisa: Are you listening, athletes out there? You don't get better training alone. You need the rest and recovery, because that's still the hardest sell. That's still the hardest sell for athletes today, is to get them to prioritise the recovery, their sleep, their all of those sort of aspects over there. And like you already knew that back then. Rod: And I said once again, just remember to learn by doing. So, unless you're going to record what you've learned today, you're not going to be able to refer to that. Sometimes John would say, ‘Ooh, I noticed today that you didn't do this and this. Bring your diary over.’ And on those days, of course, it was a blackboard and chalk. And he would write the titles at the top. And then from our diary, he would put under, he would take out, and he'd put under any of those headings. And then we'd stand back and said, ‘Now look at this. There's three on this one, nine on this one, two on this one, six on this one.’ We want to try and bring the lows up and the highs down. Let's get more consistency because this is your conditioning period. We don't need to have these spikes. We don't need to have this roller coaster. I want to keep it as steady as we can because it's a 8, 10-week foundation period. So those are the ways that we used to be. And John just simply said, he would say, when you wake up in the morning, take your heart rate. Take your pulse for 15 seconds, and write it down. And then he would say ‘Look, the work we did yesterday, and the day before, yesterday, I noticed that there's a bit of a spike in your recovery on Tuesday and Wednesday. So instead of coming to the track tonight, just go out for a long slow run’. Lisa: Wow and this was before EPS and heart rate monitors, and God knows what we've got available to us now to track everything. So what an incredible person John must have been like, because he also gave up pretty much his potential, really to help you foster your potential because you obviously genetically had an extreme gift. That's a pretty big sacrifice really, isn’t? Rod: He was incredible. And I just saw him yesterday, actually. And he used to live in the Marlborough Sounds. And of course, now that moved back to Nelson and so it's wonderful. I mean, I would always go down there and see him, and I used to love—well, I wouldn't run around — but I was biking around, all around the Marlborough Sounds, Kenepuru Sound. and I do four- or five-hour bike rides in the head. He says to me, ‘What was your big thing?’ And I said, ‘Well, I saw three cars today, John, for three hours’, and he said, ‘Oh, yes, and two of those were in the driveway’. It was amazing. I just loved down there, but now he's back here we see each other and talk and we go through our bike rides, and we go for a little jiggle, jog, as we call it now. Lisa: And so he helped you hone and tailor all of this and give you that guidance so that you boost your really strong foundation. So what was it, your very first big thing that you did? Was it then, would you say that for the Olympics? Rod: I think qualifying — no, not qualifying — but making the New Zealand cross-country team, The World Cross Country Team at 1971. I think that was the defining moment of what we were doing was, ‘Well, this is amazing.’ And so, as I said, 1971, I finished 10th in the world. And then then John said, ‘Well, what are you actually thinking for the Olympics? Are you thinking the steeplechase or the 5000 meters?’ And I said, ‘No, the 1500.’ ‘Why?’ And I said, ‘Oh, Jack Havelock, Peter Snell, John Davies’, and then, he said, ‘Good. You're committed, so let's do it’. Okay. Of course, once I have announced that, then, of course, I got all the — not criticism — but the suggestions from all the, ‘Well, I think Rod's a bit optimistic about the 1500. He hasn't even broken 1’50 for the 800 meters. He hasn't yet been broken 4 minutes for a mile. He wants to go to the Olympics. And I think he should be thinking, and John said, ‘Put the earmuffs on.’ Lisa: That is good advice. Don’t listen to the naysayers. Rod: Off we go. And then slowly, but surely, I was able to get a lot of races against Dick Quax and Tony Powell, and Kevin Ross, in that. And then I remember, in Wellington at Lower Hutt, I was able to break the four-minute mile, then I got very close in a race to the Olympic Qualifying time. And then of course, you look at qualifications. And a lot of those runners didn't want, they already realised that they hadn't got anywhere near it. So they didn't turn out for the trials. So John gave up any idea of him going to the Olympics. And he said, ‘I'm coming to Auckland to pace you. And this time, you will stay right behind me. And when I move over and say go, go’. And so because we've done a couple of these earlier in the season, and ‘I said that I can sprint later.’ And of course, I missed out at the time, but this was it. And so, he said, ‘Our goal is for you to win the trials and to break the qualification’. And he made it happen. He said, he ran in one second of every lap to get me to 300 meters to go. When he moved over, and he said ‘Go!’ I got the fight of my life and took off. Lisa: You wouldn't dare not, after that dedication order. And you qualified you got– Rod: I won the trials and qualified. And Tony Polhill had qualified in his and he had won the national championship. So he qualified when the nationals and now I've qualified and won the trials. So, they actually, they took us both incredible. He was an A-grade athlete, I was a B-grade athlete. You got everything paid for, be in your head to train. Lisa: Yes, I know that one. And so then you got to actually go to the Olympics. Now what was that experience like? Because a lot of people, not many people in the world actually get to go to an Olympics. What's it like? What's it like? Rod: So we went to Scandinavia, and to Europe to do some pre-training. And on those days, we used to say, ‘Well, no, you got to acclimatised’. I mean, nowadays you can kind of go and run within a few days. But in my day, it was three to four weeks, you wanted to have — Lisa: That's ideal to be honest. Rod: Yeah, if they were right. Lisa: Yeah. Get their time and like that whole jet lag shift and the changing of the time zones, and all of that sort of stuff takes a lot longer than people think to actually work out of the body. So yeah, okay, so now you're at the Olympics. Rod: So here we were, so and John gave me a written for a track that schedule every day, and this was a training, and he had bounced with knowing that I was going to be flying from London to Denmark. And then, we're going to go to Sweden, and then we're going to go to Dosenbach. And so he expected in all the traveling, all the changes, and really a lot of it was I was able to go out there pretty well stayed with that. Now again, I realised that that wasn't going to work. And but what he had taught me, I was able to make an adjustment and use my feeling-based instinct, saying, ‘What would John say to this?’ John would say this because those all that journey, we'd have together, I learned very, very much to communicate with him. Any doubts, we would talk, we would sit down, and we would go over things. So, he had trained me for this very moment, to make decisions for myself. Incredible. Lisa: Oh, he's amazing. Rod: Absolutely. Lisa: That’s incredible. I'm just sort of picturing someone doing all that, especially back then, when you didn't have all the professional team coaches running around you and massage therapists and whatever else that the guys have now, guys and girls. Rod: It was the two days he knew that I would respond, it would take me four to five races before I started to hit my plateau. I found early in those days that — see, I was a strength trainer to get my speed. I came across a lot of athletes who had speed to get their strength. And so, what I wrote, I found that when I would go against the speed to street, they would come out of the gate, first race and boom, hit their time. Lisa: Hit their peak. Rod: Whereas, I would take three, four or five races to get my flow going. And then I would start to do my thing. My rhythm was here, and then all of a sudden, then I would start to climb my Everest. I've been new. And so John said, ‘These are the races that the athletic, the Olympic committee have given us. I want you to run 3000 meters on this race, I want you to run 800 meters if you can on this race. If you can't run 800, see if you can get 1000. I don't want you running at 1500 just yet. And so, then he would get me under, over. Under, and then by the time that three ball races, now it's time for you to run a couple of 1500s and a mile if you can. Then, I want you to go back to running a 3000 meters, or I want you to go back out and training’. Lisa: Wow. Really specific. Like wow. Rod: He was very unbelievable. Also to that at that time, I had these three amazing marathon runners, Dave McKenzie, our Boston Marathon winner, Jeff Foster, who is the absolute legend of our running, and a guy called Terry Maness. And John said to me, ‘Don't train with quacks and all those other guys. Run, do your runs with the marathon runners’. You see, and they would take me out for a long slow run. Whereas if you went out with the others, you get all this group of runners, then they’d all be racing each other. Lisa: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don’t race when you're training Rod: Your ego. With the pecking order, when you ran with the marathon runners, there was no pecking order. Lisa: It's all about pacing and — Rod: And of course, and I would eat with them too because I learned how to eat because they were better eaters than me. I would eat more carbohydrates and more organic foods because it was the long run. I learned to do that. It was interesting because Jack pointed out to me said, ‘Now you see those two guys that were at the track today. And they were doing, and you are quite overwhelmed because they are your competitors and they were doing this incredible workout’. And I said to them, I said, ‘Woop, that what I was up against’. And Jack said, ‘Put it behind you. I want you to come to the dining room with us tonight, and we'll try and see if we can sit with them or near them.’ And I’m sure enough, there they were over there and they were talking. And they were pushing their food all around their plate and they weren't eating much’. And Jack said, ‘Look at you, you've eaten everything, and you're going back for seconds and thirds. If they're not replacing their glycogen, they won’t be able to run very well in a couple of days because they're not eating right’. So that gave me the confidence. Oh, I'm eating better than them. So they may have trained better. And sure enough, you didn't see them at the track. And the coach had taken them off because they were obviously racing too hard, they were racing their and not recovering. Lisa: Recovering. Yeah, so don't be intimidated. Because it's very easy, isn't it, when you start to doubt your own methods and your own strategies, and you haven’t done it right, and so-and-so's got it better than me, and they're more talented. And this is — all that negative self-talk, and you found a couple of guys to go, ‘Hang on, you've got this part better than they've got.’ What a great sort of mentoring thing for them to have done, to put you in that sort of good headspace. On the headspace thing, how did you deal with the doubts? Did you ever have lots of self-doubts? I mean, I know I certainly I did, where you don't feel good enough. Like you're what am I doing here? The old imposter syndrome type thing? Did that ever rear its head in your world? Or were you able to focus and...? Rod: No, absolutely, Lisa. I mean, I would often, fortunately, I could go to John with any question. There is nothing, no stone left unturned. He was amazing. Because he sensed it too, by the way, that being that brother, playing and training. And he was very, very connected with me because he would train with me, and he would sense things. And he'd say to me, he said, ‘Oh, you’re a little bit down today, aren’t you?’ and he said, ‘What's happened?’ There are like bit of a bullying going on in school and this or that, or ‘That girl won't talk to me anymore, and I love her’ and that stuff. Lisa: Yeah, yeah, all that stuff. Rod: And so he was like Marian, my mother. She was very, very on to me, too. She would sit with me and talk with me. And her mother, my grandmother, amazing, amazing people. And I will say this, right now, when my mother was 95 years old, she asked me to come and sit with her on her birthday. And she held my hand. And she said, ‘You can call me Marian from now on’. And I said, ‘Wow, this is fantastic’. And that was my mother's gift to me because I've always called her mother. I never call her mum. No. Always ‘mother’. And that relationship with my mother was very, very powerful, and it came through in my running. And John would now and again have to kind of toughen me up a little bit — that was incredible balance. So I never had anything that I had, I took to bed with me, I never had anything that I would go out. Lisa: Get it all out. Rod: I would say, sometimes, if you're running through the Dan Mountain Retreat. And he said, ‘I know what you get yourself wound up’. He said, ‘Stop, take your shoes off, and hug a tree.’ Lisa: These guys is just so like, what astounds me is that your mom, your brother, these good mentors and coaches that you had were so advanced. And this is the stuff that we’re talking about now, like, I'm telling my athletes to take your shoes off and go and ground yourself every day. And go hug a tree and get out in the sunlight and get away from the screens and do all these basic sort of things. But back then there wasn't that, like, there wasn't all this knowledge that we have now, and they obviously innately just nurtured. It sounds like you had the perfect nurturing environment to become the best version of yourself. Rod: Yes, I think so, Lisa. I was very, very, — and wonderfully, even in the club, in our running club, get this, our chairman of our running club was Harold Nelson, 1948 Olympian. Our club captain was Carrie Williams, five times Australasian cross-country champion. And they took time to run with us kids. They didn't all go out and race. The club captain and Harold would come down and talk with us kids and we would run. And then, I remember Carrie Williams, when he took us for a run. And he said, ‘Right’. He said, ‘Now there's a barbed wire fence in, there's a gate’. And he said, ‘We've got the flag there and the flag there’. He said, ‘You got a choice of going over the barbed wire fence or over the gate’. He said, ‘Come on, you boys, off you go’. And of course, 9 out of 10 went over the gate. And a friend of mine, Roger Seidman and I, we went over the barbed wire. And then he said, ‘Why did you do that?’ And I said, ‘Because it was shorter.’ And they turned to the others, and he said, ‘I like his thinking’. And he said, ‘You've got to have, to jump over a barbed wire fence, you've got to have 100%, you got to have 90% confidence and 10% ability. Lisa: And a lot of commitment. That is a good analogy. Rod: Things like that, all started to, there's this big, big jigsaw puzzle. And all those pieces started to make sense. And I can start to build that picture. And when I started to see the picture coming, I understood what they were telling me. And once again, learn by doing — or another word, another thing that John had above my bed was a sign, ‘Don't be influenced by habits’. Lisa: Wow, that's a good piece of advice for life. I think I might stick that on my Instagram today, Rod Dixon says. Rod: And, of course, wonderfully, all these I've carried on with my programme that I did with the LA marathon, and bringing people from the couch to the finish line now. And when I was going through, we're putting through, I started off with five or six hundred. But I got up to over 2000 people. And basically, it's the matter that I used for my kids’ programme is, ‘Finishing is winning. Slow and steady. The tortoise won the race.’ Lisa: Well, that's definitely been my bloody life history, that's for sure. Finishing is winning and the tortoise wins the race. Yeah, if you go long enough, and everyone else has sort of stopped somewhere, and you're still going. That was my sort of philosophy, if I just keep running longer than everybody else, and whatever. Let's go now, because I'm aware of time and everything, and there's just so much to unpack here. I want to talk about the New York City Marathon because it was pretty, I mean, so you did the Olympics. Let's finish that story first, because you got bronze medal at the 1500 at the Olympics. Now, what was that like a massive, life-changing thing to get an Olympic medal? You did it four times, the first time? Rod: I mean, my goal, and I remember, I've still got a handwritten notes of John. And our goal was to get to the sideline at the first heat. And if you can qualify for the next thing, would we give you this, that, if you're there, this is what we've worked for. And of course, and I remember 1968 again, when I was listening to my transistor radio, to the 1500 meters with Keino and Ryun, Jim Ryun, the world record holder, Kip Keino, Commonwealth champion from Edinburgh in 1970. And here he was, this incredible race, and we were absolutely going in there, listening to it, and it was incredible. And to think they said that four years later, I'm on the start line, and beside me, is Kip Keino. Lisa: Yeah, it'd be, it’s pretty amazing. Rod: And then the next runner to come and stand beside me was Jim Ryun, the world record holder and here I am. And I'm thinking because I don't pick it out, when we got the heats, well you've got the world record holder, silver medallist, and you've got the Olympic gold medallist in my race, and only two go through to the next leap. So I'm going for it but I never, I wasn't overwhelmed by that because John has said to me, our goal is, and I wanted to please John by meeting our goal, at least get to the next round. Well, history has shown that Jim Ryun was tripped up and fell and I finished second behind Keino to go through to the next round. And then and then of course, I won my semi-final. So, I was in the final, and this was unbelievable, it’s no doubt is – Lisa: It’s like you’re pinching yourself, ‘Is this real?’ All that finals and the Olympics. And you ended up third on that race, on the podium, with a needle around your neck on your first attempt in a distance where the people sent you, ‘Yeah, not really suited to this tribe’. Rod: And what was amazing is that just after we know that we've got the middle and went back to the back, and after Lillian came in into the room to congratulated me and Bill Bailey. And they said, ‘You realise that you broke Peter Snell’s New Zealand record’. And I was almost like, ‘Oh my god, I didn't mean to do that’. Lisa: Apologising for breaking the record. Oh, my goodness. I'm sure that's just epic. And then you went on to more Olympic glory. Tell us from... Rod: So at that stage, we went back to… New Zealand team were invited to the Crystal Palace in London for what they called the International Athletes Meet. And it was a full house, 40,000 people, and I didn't want to run the 1500 — or they didn't actually have a 1500 — they had a 3000, or two mark, this right, we had a two-mark. And that's what I wanted to run, the two mark, and that was Steve Prefontaine, the American record holder, and he just finished fourth at the Olympics. And I went out and we had a great race — unbelievable race. I won it, setting a Commonwealth and New Zealand record. He set the American record. And that was just like, now, it was just beginning to think, wow, I can actually run further than 1500. Lisa: Yeah, yeah, you can. You certainly did. Rod: So we got invited to go back to Europe at ‘73. And so we have the called, the Pacific Conference Games in ‘73, in Toronto. So, I asked the Athletic people, ‘Can I use my ticket to Toronto, and then on to London?’ Because I had to buy—may they allow me to use that ticket. And then Dick Quax and Tony Polhill said they were going to do the same. And then we had this young guy call me, John Walker. And he said, ‘I hear you guys are going to England. And could I come with you?’ And I said, ‘Yeah’, because he didn't go to the Olympics, but he ran some great races, we thought it was heavy. And he said, ‘Now do you get me the ticket?’ And I said, ‘No, you have to get the ticket’. And he said, ‘Oh, how do I do that?’ And I said, ‘If you, can't you afford it?’, and he said, ‘Not really’. I said, have you got a car? He said, ‘Yes’. I said, ‘Well, sell it’. And he said, ‘Really?’ So he did. And my reasoning is that, ‘John, if you run well enough, you'll get your tickets back again, which means you'll be able to buy your car back again.’ And that was John... Lisa: Put your ass on the line and forward you’re on, because this all amateur sport, back in the day. And it was hard going, like to be a world-class athlete while trying to make a living and how did you manage all of that, like, financially? How the heck did you do it? Rod: Well, before I left in ‘73, I worked full time, eight hours a day. I did a milk run at night. I worked in a menswear store on a Friday night. And then of course, fortunately, I was able to communicate with Pekka Vasala from Finland. And he said, ‘We can get you tickets. So the thing is, get as many tickets as you can, and then you can cash them in’. Right. But then, so you get the ticket, of course, there you wouldn't get the full face of the ticket because you were cashing it in. But if you got enough to get around. And you did get expenses, double AF and those rows you're able to get per diem, what they call per diem. Yep. But by the time you came back, you kind of hopefully, you equal, you weren't in debt. Lisa: Yeah. Rod: Well, then you go back and comment for the Sydney Olympics. Very good friend of mine allowed us to go do shooting and we would go out every weekend and then sell with venison. Yeah. And that was giving another $100 a weekend in, into the kitty. Lisa: Into the kid. And this is what you do, like to set, I mean, I must admit like when I represented New Zealand, so I did 24-hour racing and it's a ripe old age of 42. Finally qualifying after eight years of steps. And I qualified as a B athlete, I did 193.4 in 24 hours and I had to get to 200. I didn't make the 200, but hey, I qualified. And then we didn't even get a singlet, we, and the annoying thing in my case was that we qualified for the World Champs but they wouldn't let us go to the World Champs. And I've been trying for this for eight years before I could actually qualified. And I was desperate to go to the World Champs and then just on the day that the entries had to be in at the World Champs athletics, New Zealand athletic said, ‘Yes, you can actually go’ and I'm like, ‘Well, where am I going to pull $10,000 out of my back pocket on the day of closing?’ So I didn't get to go to the World Champs, which was really disappointing. So I only got to go to the Commonwealth Champs in England and got to represent my country, at least. Because that had been my dream for since I was a little wee girl, watching you guys do your thing. And my dad had always been, ‘You have to represent your country in something, so get your act together’. And I failed on everything. And I failed and I failed, and failed. And I was a gymnast, as a kid, it took me till I was 42 years old to actually do that and we had to buy our own singlet, we'd design our own singlets, we didn't even get that. And that was disappointing. And this is way later, obviously, this is only what 2010, 9, somewhere, I can't remember the exact date. And so, so fight, like you're in a sport that has no money. So to be able to like, still has, to become a professional at it, I managed to do that for a number of years, because I got really good at marketing. And doing whatever needed to be done — making documentaries, doing whatever, to get to the races. So like, even though I was like a generation behind you guys, really, it's still the same for a lot of sports. It's a hard, rough road and you having to work full time and do all this planning. But a good life lessons, in a way, when you have to work really hard to get there. And then you don't take it for granted. Now, I really want to talk about the New York City Marathon. Because there’s probably like, wow, how the heck did you have such a versatile career from running track and running these, short distances? It's super high speeds, to then be able to contemplate even doing a marathon distance. I mean, the opposite ends of the scale, really. How did that transition happen? Rod: Yeah, I think from ‘73, ‘74, I realised that John Walker's and then Filbert Bayi and some of these guys were coming through from the 800,000 meters. And so I knew, at that stage, it was probably a good idea for me to be thinking of the 5000 meters. So that was my goal in 75 was to run three or four 5000 meters, but still keep my hand in the 1500. Because that was the speed that was required for 5000. You realise that when I moved to 5000, I was definitely the fastest miler amongst them, and that gave me a lot of confidence, but it didn't give me that security to think that they can't do it too. So I kept running, the 800s, 1500s as much as I could, then up to 3000 meters, then up to five, then back to 3000, 1500 as much as I can. And that worked in ‘75. So then we knew that programme, I came back to John with that whole synopsis. And then we playing for ‘76 5000 meters at the Montreal Olympics. Pretty well, everything went well. I got viral pneumonia three weeks before the Olympics. Lisa: Oh my gosh. Didn’t realise that. Rod: Haven’t talked about this very much, it just took the edge off me. Lisa: It takes longer than three weeks to get over pneumonia Rod: And I was full of antibiotics, of course. It might have been four weeks but certainly I was coming right but not quite. Yeah. So the Olympics ‘76 was a disappointment. Yeah, finishing fourth. I think the listeners set behind the first. Lisa: Pretty bloody good for somebody who had pneumonia previously. Rod: Then I went back to Europe. And then from that point on, I didn't lose a race. And in fact, in ‘76, I won the British 1500 meters at Sebastian Coe and Mo Crafter, and Grand Cayman, and those guys. So, then I focused everything really on the next couple of years, I’m going to go back to cross-country. And I'm going to go back to the Olympics in 1980 in Moscow, this is going to be the goal. And as you know, Lisa, we, New Zealand joined the World Cup. And we were actually in Philadelphia, on our way to the Olympics, when Amelia Dyer came up to John Walker, and I said, ‘Isn’t it just disappointing, you're not going to the Olympics’. And I look at John and go... Lisa: What the heck are you talking about? Rod: No, and we don't? New Zealand joined the boycott. So at that stage, they said, ‘Look, we've still got Europe, we can still go on, we can still race’. And I said, ‘Well, I'm not going to Europe. I'm not going to go to Europe and run races against the people who are going to go to the Olympics. What? There's nothing in that for me’. And I said, ‘I heard there's a road race here in Philadelphia next weekend. I'm going to stay here. I'm going to go and run that road race. And then I'll probably go back to New Zealand’. Well, I went out and I finished third in that road race against Bill Rogers, the four-time Boston, four-time New York Marathon winner, Gary Spinelli, who was one of the top runners and I thought, ‘Wow, I can do this’. And so, I called John, and we started to talk about it. And he said, ‘Well, you really don't have to do much different to what you've been doing. You've already got your base, you already understand that your training pyramid’. He says, ‘You've got to go back and do those periodisation… Maybe you still got to do your track, your anaerobic work.’ And he said, ‘And then just stepping up to 10,000 meters is not really that difficult for you’. So, I started experimenting, and sure enough, that started to come. And in those days, of course, you could call every day and go through a separate jar. I had a fax machine, faxing through, and then slowly but surely, I started to get the confidence that I could run 15k. And then I would run a few 10 milers, and I was winning those. And then of course, then I would run a few races, which is also bit too much downhill for me, I'm not good on downhill. So I'll keep away from those steps to select. And then I started to select the races, which were ranked, very high-ranked, so A-grade races. And then I put in some B-grade races and some C. So, I bounced them all around so that I was not racing every weekend, and then I started to get a pattern going. And then of course, I was able to move up to, as I said, 10 mile. And I thought now I'm going to give this half marathon a go. So, I ran the half marathon, I got a good sense from that. And then, I think at the end of that first year, I came back rank number one, road racing. And so then I knew what to do for the next year. And then I worked with the Pepsi Cola company, and they used to have the Pepsi 10K races all around the country. And so I said, I’d like to run some of these for you, and do the PR media. And that took me away from the limelight races. And so, I would go and do media and talk to the runners and run with the runners and then race and win that. And I got funding for that, I got paid for that because I was under contract. And so I was the unable to pick out the key races for the rest of the set. And then slowly but surely, in 82, when I ran the Philadelphia half marathon and set the world record — that's when I knew, when I finished, I said, ‘If I turn around, could you do that again?’ And I said, ‘Yes’. I didn't tell anybody because that would be a little bit too — Lisa: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Praising yourself. Rod: So I just thought I'd make an honest assessment myself. And when I talked to John, he said, ‘How?’ and I said, ‘Yes, I couldn't’. And he said, ‘Well then, we’re going to look at that’. Lisa: We got some work to do. Rod: He said, ‘What we will do in 1982, you're going to come back and you're going to run the Pasta Marathon in Auckland, and that was going to be my trial. And Jack Foster was trying to be the first 50-year-old to break 2:20. So, I got alongside Jack and I said, ‘Now this is my first marathon. What do I do?’ And he said, ‘I see all these runners going out there and warming up and I don't want to run 29 miles... Lisa: For the marathon? I need to do some extra miles warmup. Rod: ‘Use the first mile as a warmup, just run with me’. I said, ‘That'll do me’. So, I went out and ran with Jack and then we time in, started down to Iraq, and we're going through Newmarket. And he said, ‘I think it's time for you to get up there with the leaders’. He said, ‘You're looking at people on the sidewalk. You're chatting away as if it's a Sunday run. You’re ready to go’. I said, ‘You're ready?’ and he said, ‘Yeah, go’. And so, alright, because this is Jack Foster. Lisa: Can't leave him. Rod: 1974 at 42 years old. Jack said, ‘You can climb Mount Everest,’ I would do it. Yeah. So, I got up with the leaders and join them and out to Mission Bay. And on my way back, and I was running with Kevin Ryun, he who is also one of our legends from runners. And Kevin, he said, ‘We're in a group of four or five’. And he said, he came out, he said, ‘Get your ass out of here’. I said, ‘What do you mean?’ He said, ‘You're running too easy. Make you break now.’ So I said, ‘Yes. Kevin’. Lisa: Yes, Sir, I’m off. Rod: So I ran one that and then that was when I talked with John, that was going to be the guidelines that maybe not another one this year, but certainly look at 83 as running a marathon at some point. Lisa: How did you work the pacing? Like going from such a shorter distances and then you’re going into these super long distances, where you're pacing and you're fuelling and all that sort of thing comes into it. Was it a big mind shift for you? Like not just sprint out of the gate, like you would in, say, 1500, the strategies are so very different for anything like this. Rod: Certainly, those memories of running with the marathon boys in 72. And I went back to Dave McKenzie and Jack Foster and talked to them about what it takes. And then, John, my brother, John was also too, very, very in tune with them, and he knew all the boys, and so we started to talk about how it would be. And he said, ‘So I want you to do, I want you to go back to doing those long Abel Tasman runs. I want you to do those long road aerobic runs, and just long and slow.’ And he said, ‘I don't want you going out there with your mates racing it. I want you to just lay that foundation again.’ And he said, ‘You’ve already done it’, he said, ‘It's just a natural progression for you’. So it was just amazing, because it just felt comfortable. And at that time, I was living in Redding, Pennsylvania, and I would be running out or out through the Amish country and the farms and roads, they're just horse and cats. Lisa: Awesome. Rod: I had this fabulous forest, Nolde Forest, which is a state park. And I could run on there for three hours and just cross, but I wouldn't run the same trails. I mean, you'd run clockwise or anti-clockwise, so. And then, but I kept — I still kept that track mentality and still did my training aerobically but I didn't do it on the track. Fortunately, the spar side, they had a road that was always closed off only for emergencies. And it was about a three-
The New Zealand Olympic committee is being urged to make it compulsory for athletes going to the Tokyo Games to be vaccinated against Covid-19. The government is offering early access to vaccination to top athletes travelling overseas to represent New Zealand. Former New Zealand team doctor Dave Gerrard says Olympic officials need to take a stronger line. Sports editor Stephen Hewson reports.
There is currently no special priority group for high performance athletes like the Black Caps, or New Zealand's Olympic athletes. The government says it is still thrashing out the details of a "National Significance" category. But the clock is ticking down for those needing to leave the country to compete. New Zealand Olympic committee chief executive Kereyn Smith says they would like the team to be vaccinated before they go to Tokyo but so far they have been given no government guarantees.
In our 32nd weekly episode of the first series of The Horse & Hound Podcast, host Pippa Roome chats to New Zealand Olympic event rider Tim Price about his team of top horses, among other topics. Moving on to the week's top news stories, our news editor Eleanor Jones and news writer Becky Murray join Pippa to discuss what the latest lockdown restirctions mean for the horse world, equestrian business viability and the standard of dressage in eventing. We also welcome a new addition to our panel of experts, equine trainer Jason Webb, who talks about the implications of owners treating their horses like children. We hope you will find it useful. The full back catalogue of episodes of The Horse & Hound Podcast can be viewed at https://www.horseandhound.co.uk/podcast
Trevor is the CEO of Sport Manawatu, a Regional Sports Trust providing services and events benefiting the sport and active recreation interests of Palmerston North City, Manawatu, Tararua and Horowhenua regions. As a sportsman, Trevor won 13 national boxing titles, represented New Zealand at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, and won Bronze at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Canada. In 1994, Trevor has also been involved in 9 Olympic and Commonwealth Games campaigns with a focus on athlete support at Games time. He was the Deputy Chef de Mission for the New Zealand team at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games and 2016 Rio Olympics. Trevor has also worked in social change and health promotion, working on several national advertising campaigns such as breast and cervical screening, sexual health, problem gambling and mental health. In 2012, Trevor became a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for contribution to sport and the community. He is a life member of the New Zealand Olympic Order and was recently awarded an Honorary Associate by the Universal College of Learning (UCOL). In September 2019, Trevor completed his Master’s degree with distinction from the University of Belgium. His research looked at “The influence of Māori culture on the New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games teams’ experience”. On This Episode: Find out how sports kicked Trevor’s interest in leadership into gear. Trevor explains how COVID has impacted leadership within his organization. Find out how we can change even if we are not wired for it. Key Takeaways: Get comfortable getting things wrong and receiving constructive feedback. You must be able to boil down complex situations into simple action plans. Your team must feel heard. Tweetable Quotes: “Never waste a good crisis.” “There are leaders in the front and leaders in the back and we all have roles to play.” “Leadership isn’t just about being at the top.” Trevor Shailer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tshailer/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tshailer/) Denis Gianoutsos: denis@leadingchangepartners.com https://my.captivate.fm/www.LeadingChangePartners.com%C2%A0 (www.LeadingChangePartners.com )
Matt Scorringe is the founder and director of The Art of Surfing and the New Zealand Olympic surfing coach. He first represented New Zealand in Surfing in Bali at the age of 14. He went on to represent New Zealand in his respected age divisions every year until the age the 20 before stepping down from international competition to focus on travelling the world as a sponsored free surfer for Billabong. Listen as I discuss with Matt Scorringe, The Art of Surfing Academy, high performance surf coaching and it's origins and how to become a pro surfer with some key basic steps.
If it was not for Covid-19, the Olympic Games would be getting underway tomorrow from Tokyo.They are not derailed, just delayed. The Games are set to start one year later in 2021, which means we are now exactly one year out from the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Games.The New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) are one of many organisations needing to adapt.NZOC Chief Executive and Secretary General Kereyn Smith told Heather du Plessis-Allan it has been an incredibly emotional time."It's been a real rollerocaster for everybody, and most particularly the athletes who have had these days etched in their minds for four, eight, 10 years now."Ms Smith says their focus quickly altered."I think the President Thomas Bach described the other day - the Olympic Games are the most complex event on the planet.There's just so many things there to then be thinking about."Ms Smith says the one year delays has presented financial challenges."All of these things [sport and business] have been thrown into a form of disarray."In some regards almost doing two years of activity on a single year's revenue. So it has put pressure on, but we're really delighted that most of our partners are really committed to the New Zealand team." Ms Smith adds while there is uncertainty surrounding the world in regards to Covid-19, they are not entertaining the possibility of the Games needing to be delayed further.
Billy Stairmind is a record-holding 7x New Zealand surfing champion, future Olympian, and a competitor on the World Qualifying Series.Growing up in Raglan, the surfing capital of New Zealand, Billy got introduced to the ocean at a young age. Since turning pro, he's won seven New Zealand titles and recently qualified for the 2020 Olympic Games, which have been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.In this episode, we talk about his backstory, turning pro, qualifying for the Olympics, the time he beat Kelly Slater, the greatest surfer of all time, in a heat, and his love for the ocean.Billy also opens up about a particularly difficult period in his life a few years back and how he's built himself back up to achieve some of the best results of his career.//EPISODE EXTRAS//Follow Billy Stairmind on Instagram and Facebook.Check out the video of Billy beating Kelly Slater in a heat in 2011. It's epic!Watch a short clip of Billy talking about making the New Zealand Olympic team.//SUPPORT THE WILD PODCAST//If you like what we do, please consider supporting the podcast on Patreon.We've set it up so you can choose from:1. The cost of staying in a backcountry hut in New Zealand2. The cost of staying in a serviced hutWe thought that was cool because our goal with every episode is to transport you from wherever you are into the outdoors.Your support helps us to cover our costs and keep bringing you stories of explorers, adventure, and the great outdoors.You can also support the show by leaving a five-star rating and/or a short review on iTunes.Thanks heaps,-- Andy & Jonnywww.thewildpodcast.comThe Wild Podcast is produced by The Content Lab, content marketing, copywriting, and brand storytelling services for New Zealand businesses that want to build audiences and authority online. Visit contentlab.co.nz
Today, we hear from New Zealand Olympic Diver, Lizzie Cui. Lizzie is a 5 time national champion and record holder. She was in the Rio Olympic games for New Zealand which made her the first olympic diver for them since the '92 games. She is currently studying and competing at LSU where she is one of the most decorated divers in LSU history, holding the 3 meter record, 4 time SEC silver medalist, and 7 time NCAA All-American.Lizzie shows us that a champion mindset isn't always just about competing on the diving board and in the pool. Sometimes, our battles are fought in our minds and bodies. She is transparent about her struggle with eating disorders and the steps she took to overcome them. In Episode 36, Lizzie helps us learn more on how to have a champion mindset when overcoming eating disorders.So, if you’re ready, take out your pencils and let’s begin!Connect with Lizzie here.If you enjoyed this episode, check out more or connect with Chris here.Support the show (http://paypal.me/pencilleadership)
Where does the British Team actually stack up? Are the Brits in danger of under performing in Tokyo? Why are New Zealand so dominant? How important are US educated athletes for great Britain? Olympic Gold Medalist, Gary Herbert joins us for the recording to talk about the international scene. This week's interview is with New Zealand Olympic sculler, Emma Twigg.
As millions of people around the world seek relief from Covid-19 stress in comfort foods, could that be making the pandemic even worse? The ravaging effects of sugar on our bodies have been well documented but new findings about the virus’ biology indicate that it may have found a way to weaponize our sweet tooth. How can we deal with Covid-19 without becoming its accomplice? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Paul Laursen, former lead of physiology for New Zealand Olympic athletes and Paul Maffetone, clinician and coach.
We're back! Same fun Olympics podcast, but a brand new name! We're still getting things transitioned over to the new name -- you'll see a new website soon, and the back catalog will get reconfigured as well. We have all new social media handles--new accounts actually, so please follow us and help others find us. It's the same across Insta, Twitter and Facebook--@flamealivepod. Our Facebook Group is Keep the Flame Alive Podcast. We welcome New Zealand Olympic medalist and silver fern owner Luuka Jones to the show to talk to us about the sport of canoe slalom. She tells us about what it's like excelling on the global stage without much support, and what having support can do for your performance. And we learn the best ways to get canoes and kayaks to anywhere in the world. Luuka also tells us about her experiences competing at Beijing 2008, London 2012, and Rio 2016, where she won the silver medal. She's qualified for Tokyo 2020, so we look forward to cheering her on at the Olympics next year. Follow Luuka on Facebook, Insta and Twitter! Also on the show, our Team update -- but what should we call our team, now that we can't use Team Olympic Fever? Let us know! The update includes mention of Jake Dalton (and his biceps)' new YouTube show "A Drink with Jake," which you can find here. Plus, some news from the Olympic world and what the surfing waves are like in Tahiti. Call us! We'd love to hear from you! Our new VM number is 208-FLAME-IT. Thanks so much for listening, and until next time, keep the flame alive!
Kiwi Olympic athletes have said they support a postponement of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, an approach backed jointly by the New Zealand Olympic Committee, Paralympics New Zealand and High Performance Sport New Zealand (HPSNZ).New Zealand Olympic Committee CEO Kereyn Smith said she welcomed the feedback gathered in a New Zealand Athletes' Commission survey this morning and thanked athletes for their input."Our focus is first and foremost the athletes," she said. "It has been important to us to give them the opportunity to talk to us. We value their resilience and flexibility and we know working through the changes won't be easy."We support their position and will now share their views with the IOC as we advocate internationally on behalf of New Zealand athletes and sport. We reiterate the need for a swift decision."Covid19.govt.nz: The Government's official Covid-19 advisory websiteThe sentiment has been supported by Paralympics New Zealand and HPSNZ."Providing carded athletes with high performance training and other HPSNZ facilities and services has become increasingly challenging," said HPSNZ CEO Michael Scott."The current Covid-19 environment is not conducive to the sense of fair play which underpins these pinnacle events, as the preparation of New Zealand's athletes and others around the world is hampered to varying degrees."We fully support current steps to postpone the Olympic and Paralympic Games This decision needs to be made quickly to provide the athletes, coaches and support staff with certainty, which will allow them to focus on their wellbeing at this critical time, while resetting and recalibrating for Tokyo."Paralympics New Zealand surveyed Para athletes this morning and also received overwhelming feedback.Paralympics New Zealand boss Fiona Allan said: "Paralympians and Para athletes believed a postponement of the Paralympic Games is the preferred option. This would create a fair, safe and level playing field for all nations especially given the severely hampered training environments."Our Para athletes and our wider organisation echo the support for a postponement," she said."Para athletes told us that an early decision is critical to best ensure the wellbeing of all athletes throughout New Zealand. It is imperative that this decision is made quickly to provide certainty."New Zealand Athlete Commission member Sarah Cowley-Ross said New Zealand athletes were adaptable and determined and she had every confidence they could meet the challenges ahead."New Zealand athletes have long prepared for a July 2020 Olympic Games however the Olympic Movement is founded on humanity and that, right now, must come first," she said."As the New Zealand Olympic Committee's Athletes' Commission, and on behalf of New Zealand's Olympic athletes, we are asking the IOC to immediately confirm a postponement, using the following four weeks to clarify details."Each athlete has their own set of individual perspectives and challenges, and we acknowledge those who would have liked the games to occur as scheduled. We wholeheartedly thank all the athletes and their support staff for the time they took to share their views with us."Smith said she thanked HPSNZ and Paralympics New Zealand for their ongoing commitment. She acknowledged the value of the New Zealand high performance sporting system's joint approach to support New Zealand Olympic sports and athletes.The New Zealand Olympic Committee Athletes' Commission is made up of elected athlete representatives of Olympic and Commonwealth sports. It provides input and advice to the New Zealand Olympic Committee on all key decisions and represents the athlete voice on the NZOC Board.
This week we are lucky to be joined by New Zealand pro athlete, Hayden Wilde as a guest co-host. We talk about Hayden's introduction to triathlon, racing Superleague and the pressure of trying to qualify for the New Zealand Olympic team. We discuss the recent Norseman Extreme Triathlon and James chats with the women's winner Lucy Gossaage about what is arguably the world's hardest triathlon. For more information about MX Endurance: http://www.mxendurance.com Or check the team out on Social Media: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TeamMaccax/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mxendurance Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/teammaccax/ You can also find Tim's podcast 'Think Fit' here: https://goo.gl/sp5q4q
Alexis Pritchard (born 24 September 1983) is a South-African born New Zealand Olympic boxer, Mental Skills, and Performance Coach at Rebuild with Lex, based in Auckland, New Zealand. She is the first New Zealand woman to win an Olympic bout for boxing and has since competed all around the world as a finalist in both the Olympics and Common Wealth Games. In today's episode of the Sattva Soul podcast, Alexis discusses how saying yes to life led her to become an accidental athlete, then to the Olympics and beyond.
This week we were joined by New Zealand Olympic hero Rod Dixon. We dive into the world of running! How do you love a sport that many people find boring and painful? We find out the answers that might inspire you to get out and hit the pavement... LISTEN TO THE FULL DISCUSSION WITH THE WEEKEND COLLECTIVE ABOVE
This week we were joined by New Zealand Olympic hero Rod Dixon. We dive into the world of running! How do you love a sport that many people find boring and painful? We find out the answers that might inspire you to get out and hit the pavement... LISTEN TO THE FULL DISCUSSION WITH THE WEEKEND COLLECTIVE ABOVE
This week we were joined by New Zealand Olympic hero Rod Dixon. We dive into the world of running! How do you love a sport that many people find boring and painful? We find out the answers that might inspire you to get out and hit the pavement... LISTEN TO THE FULL DISCUSSION WITH THE WEEKEND COLLECTIVE ABOVE
From picking up a hockey stick at the age of four Trish Ross was on a path to hockey greatness including competing for age groups representative teams regionally as well as for New Zealand. In her twenties having made the New Zealand Academy (effectively the B team) Trish was asked to attend a New Zealand Olympic trial though unfortunately that's where her Olympic dream ended for reasons she discusses in the show. I originally invited Trish along to Mental Strength Conversations to chat about her mental strength when preparing for and competing in body building competitions. But as the conversation progressed I learned so much more about someone I've played hockey with and against for a number of years including in the Wellington and New Zealand 35s Masters teams as well. Body Building is something I've always been fascinated with due to the extremes body builders put themselves through to compete - which Trish details in this episode from both a mental and physical perspective. So it's like a two for one - we talk about both Trish's hockey and body building, including how Trish stayed playing hockey despite not achieving her goals of representing New Zealand in an Olympics something she'd been committed to for years. We talk about how Trish approaches her training for body building all year long, what it's like to compete as an individual athlete vs. an athlete in a team sport and what motivates her to stay with body building now. Plus some of the issues she faces balancing body building and job... including the meal synonymous with body building - chicken and broccoli. Sometimes it's funny what you learn when you ask people the right questions... and I certainly learned a lot so sit back, relax and enjoy this episode of Mental Strength Conversations with Trish Ross.
Mindhacking, lifehacking, mindset hacking, whatever you wanna call it, every entrepreneur knows mindset is important. From The 4-Hour Workweek concept of wasting your energy, low information diet, to the more philosophical tactics of being in tune with your best truest innermost self and projecting the best version of you out the the world. But it's not easy to figure out that deep psychology yourself, which is why I got a lot of value out of this chat, just from the questions that I'm now asking myself about the direction of where my mindset is projecting me to go. Cam is a mind hacker and also a digital nomad - he shares a bit about how he got interested in the topic coming from the world of sports, how he's worked with and seen case studies with New Zealand Olympic athletes, F-1 Racecar drivers, and now entrepreneurs. Check out his page to learn more about the 7-Day MindHacking challenge where he personalizes weekly and daily routines and mind hacks for success - I am definitely interested in it myself as we're on the brink of taking our Biz/Life to the next level. Would love to hear your thoughts below! Cheers! Watch on YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvARi65m_B8&index=28&list=PLIsHX7vpse9kSKXXEX9UnpM3omyW3Qa1c&t=0s
Brad continues to discuss topics of recent interest and new strategies he is trying out in training experiments, including his plunging deep into the world of temperature therapy. In consult with Dr. Kelly Starrett, author of Becoming a Supple Leopard and founder of MobilityWOD.com, you’ll get tips to start using cold water therapy as well as heat therapy to pursue the vaunted benefits. Brad has a chest freezer filled with near-freezing water for both morning and evening plunges. For morning, it’s a hermetic stressor to boost adaptive hormones and naturally sharpen central nervous system function. For before bed, a quick plunge helps facilitate a good night’s sleep by lowering body temperature. Brad’s game is to stay for ~3 min at temperatures 36-40F. Not long enough to suffer or shiver for hours afterward. Check out his YouTube videos: Check out his YouTube demonstration coming soon! Short demo to get you started: Coming Soon! A detailed description of benefits and demo: Coming Soon! The deal with cold therapy is to keep it far away from training stimulus. You want the inflammatory process to run its course after a workout, despite the fact that it feels great to cool your legs in an icy river after a hard run or the like. With heat therapy, the infrared sauna causes a mini-fever effect to enhance cellular function and improve cardiovascular function. Starrett likes the hot sauna where you can really sweat and even get uncomfortable before getting out. Brad is doing Chris Kelly’s Nourish BalanceThrive detox protocol of going into a sauna for a big sweat, and immediately scrubbing off with Dr. Bronners soap to clear toxins (since his NBT tests showed residue of toxic metals and rubber by-products in his blood! Possibly a consequence of growing up in smoggy LA or perhaps even drinking from plastic water bottles that have been exposed to heat - like a sunny car.) In furthering the concept of a more varied and relaxed approach to training, Brad references the podcast where he discussed the Simply Running approach of New Zealand Olympic 1500 meter silver and bronze medalist Nick Willis. The takeaway message is to design a training program that is enjoyable, fits conveniently into your other life responsibilities, and tone down the obsessive need to hit arbitrary time or volume standards. Consistency in the context of building fitness is simply not as important as we think it is. Don’t compare yourself to the elites. They are out there for hours every largely because they do have plenty of time to spend on training and are looking for those incremental benefits. Take a page from the bodybuilding scene. Ridicule the bro science if you must, but bodybuilders respect and appreciate the importance of balancing stress and rest—breaking down muscles with intense training and then resting and hyper-nourishing to come back with huge muscles. On the other hand, realize the disastrous consequences of a chronic approach, as we now see the elevated cardiovascular disease risk factors in hard training. Brad also refers to his super nutrition morning green smoothie, also available on YouTube: Coming Soon! Great topics to get you thinking about ways to optimize your approach to training! Nick Willis Show: http://primalendurance.libsyn.com/interval-show-6-olympic-bronze-medalist-nick-williss-simply-running-approach Muscleheads ripping on cardio article: https://www.muscleforlife.com/how-much-cardio/ Cold water - long: https://youtu.be/1j3AZJVwZnc Cold water - quick demo: https://youtu.be/2WFFM05YnQ0 Smoothie - long: https://youtu.be/TVYOAErMMis Smoothie - quick demo: https://youtu.be/FF_mtZoRw5I Mobility Workout What is cold temperature therapy and what are the benefits of it? [00:01:44] How does melatonin work in helping one sleep? What else helps one sleep? [00:09:51] You do not want the cold exposure anywhere near your workout. [00:13:17] What is the role of heat therapy? [00:17:00] How does Brad start his day? What motivates him? [00:24:20] Kickstart your digestive circadian rhythm with a green smoothie. [00:29:16] Do we need to eat more calories when we are focused on Keto dieting? [00:32:59] How do we know if we have a carb dependency problem? [00:37:09]
In Extra Time we discuss the Super Rugby quarter-finals, with a chance all four New Zealand teams involved could make the semi-finals. The first members of the New Zealand Olympic team have arrived in Rio, is everything as it should be? One member of the New Zealand Olympic team talks about his late inclusion after an opponent failed a drugs test. Laura Langman talks about playing her netball in Australia and Shane Archbold explains his spectacular crash on the Tour de France.
In Extra Time we discuss the Super Rugby quarter-finals, with a chance all four New Zealand teams involved could make the semi-finals. The first members of the New Zealand Olympic team have arrived in Rio, is everything as it should be? One member of the New Zealand Olympic team talks about his late inclusion after an opponent failed a drugs test. Laura Langman talks about playing her netball in Australia and Shane Archbold explains his spectacular crash on the Tour de France.
What does it take for some of our top athletes to get on the Road to Rio? The Olympic Games start in August but many of our athletes hoping to qualify for the New Zealand Olympic team have everything to play for still. In two parts, starting with two Olympic events which get a lot of attention in New Zealand - running and rowing - we speak to Olympic Gold medalist and five-time world champion in the single sculls Mahe Drysdale, 800m runner and Olympic hopeful Angie Petty and women's World Champs Gold winning lightweight double rower and Olympic hopeful Sophie MacKenzie.
In Extra Time this week, can the All Blacks put the ghosts of 2007 behind them? We head to Cardiff as they prepare to play France in the world cup quarterfinals. We also talk to former All Black lock Chris Jack on his memories of that 2007 quarterfinal loss. A leading sports psychologist tells us its the fans rather than the players who are the ones getting superstitious, while it seems France are thinking about 2011 rather than 2007. We also hear from triathlete Andrea Hewitt the first athlete picked in the New Zealand Olympic team for next year's Rio Games. Equestrian Blythe Tait ponders the prospect of a fifth Olympics after New Zealand qualified for the teams competition in Rio and the Black Stick men have one last chance to get to Rio.
In Extra Time this week, can the All Blacks put the ghosts of 2007 behind them? We head to Cardiff as they prepare to play France in the world cup quarterfinals. We also talk to former All Black lock Chris Jack on his memories of that 2007 quarterfinal loss. A leading sports psychologist tells us its the fans rather than the players who are the ones getting superstitious, while it seems France are thinking about 2011 rather than 2007. We also hear from triathlete Andrea Hewitt the first athlete picked in the New Zealand Olympic team for next year's Rio Games. Equestrian Blythe Tait ponders the prospect of a fifth Olympics after New Zealand qualified for the teams competition in Rio and the Black Stick men have one last chance to get to Rio.
This week we review the football World Cup from the perspectives of the finalists Germany and Argentina. The departing Hurricanes coach Mark Hammett looks back on his controversial tenure while the Chiefs look ahead to the Super Rugby playoffs. The Phoenix get ready for a pre-season tournament against two English Premier League clubs and a star player returns to the New Zealand Breakers. The All Black Sevens prepare to defend their Commonwealth Games title and the New Zealand Olympic champion 470 sailors capsize to bronze in Athens.
This week we review the football World Cup from the perspectives of the finalists Germany and Argentina. The departing Hurricanes coach Mark Hammett looks back on his controversial tenure while the Chiefs look ahead to the Super Rugby playoffs. The Phoenix get ready for a pre-season tournament against two English Premier League clubs and a star player returns to the New Zealand Breakers. The All Black Sevens prepare to defend their Commonwealth Games title and the New Zealand Olympic champion 470 sailors capsize to bronze in Athens.
In Extra Time this week there's a Commonwealth Games focus. New Zealand'sadvance party has arrived in Glasgow and is setting up base. We talk to the head of the New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games committee Keryen Smith about lies ahead. Down and out in the Tour de France, but back on his bike for Glasgow, Greg Henderson discusses his quick recovery. Staying on our bike we hear how technology is powering bike's bid for medals in Glagow and we talk to rugby sevens supremo Gordon Tietjens as he seeks to maintain the side's 16 year unbeaten run at the Games. And the Black Caps top 20 are announced.
In Extra Time this week there's a Commonwealth Games focus. New Zealand'sadvance party has arrived in Glasgow and is setting up base. We talk to the head of the New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games committee Keryen Smith about lies ahead. Down and out in the Tour de France, but back on his bike for Glasgow, Greg Henderson discusses his quick recovery. Staying on our bike we hear how technology is powering bike's bid for medals in Glagow and we talk to rugby sevens supremo Gordon Tietjens as he seeks to maintain the side's 16 year unbeaten run at the Games. And the Black Caps top 20 are announced.
Welcome to the first edition of Extra Time for 2014. World cricket is in turmoil over plans by the big three India, England and Australia to assume greater contol of the game globally, we examine the situation. For the first time three siblings have been selected in a New Zealand Olympic team. The former All Whites goalkeeper Frank van Hattum steps down after a polarising five year term as chairman of New Zealand Football. And the New Zealand motor racing veteran Greg Murphy prepares to defend his V8 SuperTourer title, conceding that he's given up on returning to the Australian V8 Supercar series fulltime.
Welcome to the first edition of Extra Time for 2014. World cricket is in turmoil over plans by the big three India, England and Australia to assume greater contol of the game globally, we examine the situation. For the first time three siblings have been selected in a New Zealand Olympic team. The former All Whites goalkeeper Frank van Hattum steps down after a polarising five year term as chairman of New Zealand Football. And the New Zealand motor racing veteran Greg Murphy prepares to defend his V8 SuperTourer title, conceding that he's given up on returning to the Australian V8 Supercar series fulltime.
This week we hear from the new New Zealand Olympic chef de mission and what he hopes to bring to the role. One of our Olympic champion rowers is looking to make a change next year. We find out why New Zealand's only women's cycle tour has had to be called off and Gordon Tietjens reflects on his 20 years as a rugby sevens coach.
This week we hear from the new New Zealand Olympic chef de mission and what he hopes to bring to the role. One of our Olympic champion rowers is looking to make a change next year. We find out why New Zealand's only women's cycle tour has had to be called off and Gordon Tietjens reflects on his 20 years as a rugby sevens coach.
We talk to centre Conrad Smith as the All Blacks make an emotional return to Christchurch ahead of the second test against Ireland, and we focus on the Olympics with the London Games less than 6 weeks away, we track the process of the New Zealand Olympic team with chef de mission Dave Currie, we catch up with one of New Zealand's brightest gold medal prospects single skull rower Mahe Drysdale, we talk to one of the two women who'll be the first female boxers to represent New Zealand at an Olympics and we hear from international accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers who predict New Zealand will fail to reach it's 10 medal target in London.
We talk to centre Conrad Smith as the All Blacks make an emotional return to Christchurch ahead of the second test against Ireland, and we focus on the Olympics with the London Games less than 6 weeks away, we track the process of the New Zealand Olympic team with chef de mission Dave Currie, we catch up with one of New Zealand's brightest gold medal prospects single skull rower Mahe Drysdale, we talk to one of the two women who'll be the first female boxers to represent New Zealand at an Olympics and we hear from international accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers who predict New Zealand will fail to reach it's 10 medal target in London.
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