Mark Sortino
10/04/19 • 34 min
Episode 139: Today we welcome back triathlon coach Mark Sortino to the podcast. Mark joined us on Episode 39 and now he joins us again 100 episodes later. Mark runs Team MPI and we talk to him about his coaching organization, some coaching continuing education sessions that he has coming up and what to expect at Kona 2019.
1:10 Tell is who you are and what you do in 2 minutes. For a more full bio listen to episode 39.
3:07 How many coaches are Team MPI up to?
3:40 With your 15 coaches are they full time or part-time and this is something they do on the side?
5:04 How many coaches are each coach working with and how do you match the athlete to the best coach?
6:58 How individualized is each plan if you have a coach working with 20 athletes.
8:22 What is the Team MPI system look like?
10:25 How do you work on a swim stroke or run gate for someone you are working with online?
13:52 Do you have people video themselves doing strides or such?
15:09 What type of education process do your Team MPI coaches go through?
17:04 A key is communications, how do you communicate with your athletes?
19:56 Do you find yourself using the Final Surge App more and more?
21:48 Talk about the upcoming coaches retreat you have at Ironman Arizona
25:05 Kona is coming up, can anyone beat Daniela Ryf on the women's side?
28:25 Patrick Lange, can someone beat him at Kona? Does any prepare better for one race than he does?
30:50 Jan Frodeno and Sebastian Kienle will likely be his biggest competition. All three are from Germany, what has happened to the American's?
32:23 Which of the men do you think is going to win?
Resources: Upcoming Coaches Retreat at IMAZ Team MPI Training Plans Team MPI Website Team MPI on Instagram Team MPI on Facebook
Episode 139: Today we welcome back triathlon coach Mark Sortino to the podcast. Mark joined us on Episode 39 and now he joins us again 100 episodes later. Mark runs Team MPI and we talk to him about his coaching organization, some coaching continuing education sessions that he has coming up and what to expect at Kona 2019.
1:10 Tell is who you are and what you do in 2 minutes. For a more full bio listen to episode 39.
3:07 How many coaches are Team MPI up to?
3:40 With your 15 coaches are they full time or part-time and this is something they do on the side?
5:04 How many coaches are each coach working with and how do you match the athlete to the best coach?
6:58 How individualized is each plan if you have a coach working with 20 athletes.
8:22 What is the Team MPI system look like?
10:25 How do you work on a swim stroke or run gate for someone you are working with online?
13:52 Do you have people video themselves doing strides or such?
15:09 What type of education process do your Team MPI coaches go through?
17:04 A key is communications, how do you communicate with your athletes?
19:56 Do you find yourself using the Final Surge App more and more?
21:48 Talk about the upcoming coaches retreat you have at Ironman Arizona
25:05 Kona is coming up, can anyone beat Daniela Ryf on the women's side?
28:25 Patrick Lange, can someone beat him at Kona? Does any prepare better for one race than he does?
30:50 Jan Frodeno and Sebastian Kienle will likely be his biggest competition. All three are from Germany, what has happened to the American's?
32:23 Which of the men do you think is going to win?
Resources: Upcoming Coaches Retreat at IMAZ Team MPI Training Plans Team MPI Website Team MPI on Instagram Team MPI on Facebook
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Episode 138: Jason Fitzgerald of Strength Running. Jason has been blogging and creating online courses for about a decade. Jason has a new program out called Running Smarter, Runner Stronger. This program is 17 chapters of high-quality video to make you a better runner. Check out Jason's program and if want to train with a purpose head over to FinalSurge.com for your free account, now onto the show.
1:33 How Strength Running Started
4:45 You have been doing this for a decade now, but when I saw your new trailer I knew this was next level stuff
6:25 Who is this new course designed for?
9:00 We expect strength training and injury prevention content from you, but this is so much more, does this take place of a coach?
10:50 One of the things you talk about is overstriding, in this video series what is the structure of the advice they would get?
15:25 One thing you hear often is you don't want to change form too quickly in their running for. What are some of the things you work on to do this?
18:50 Overstriding vs long stride
23:12 A new runner the cardiovascular system grows and develops faster than the body, how does your program deal with mileage buildup?
26:41 One of the chapters is on speedwork, can you give an example of what may be found in that chapter?
29:54 Where can people find out more online and get a sample lesson?
ResourcesRunning Smarter Program Jason on Twitter Run Smarter Course
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