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Bite Sized * Simple ways to boost your bike performance for 2024
Simon Ward, The High Performance Human Triathlon Podcast
12/16/23 • 12 min
- Why you should be realistic and consistent
- The importance of mobility and strength
- Ways to improve your technique
- Embrace group riding and improve your bike handling skills
- Test regularly to set targets and check progress
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 [email protected].
Margaret Sills - A true pioneer of UK Triathlon
Simon Ward, The High Performance Human Triathlon Podcast
02/14/24 • 98 min
- Northampton - That first triathlon in 1983
- Emotional - The final triathlon in 2023
- 40 years in triathlon and never injured
- Fitting training around life
- Dealing with life’s challenges - menopause, heart problems
- A lifetime of adventures - Race across America (twice), LEJOG, mountain biking in the Himalayas
- Standing on the podium as a GB age group team member
To contact Beth regarding Life Coaching, please email her at [email protected].
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 [email protected].
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 [email protected].
Dave Scott opens up about depression, rinsing cottage cheese, and Simon's new hairstyle * Simon Ward and Dave Scott
Simon Ward, The High Performance Human Triathlon Podcast
09/16/20 • 79 min
The word “legend” is used too frequently these days, like describing the pizza delivery guy who arrives when you’re hungry. However, in the case of this week’s guest, calling him a legend is absolutely the right word. Dave Scott is “The Man”! He’s won the Ironman World Championships no less than 6 times and in its early days he was dominant. He retired and then made a comeback at the age of 40, finishing second behind rising star Greg Welch. Since his last Ironman in 2001, Dave has carved out a career as a triathlon coach (advising other Ironman World champions such as Craig Alexander and Chrissie Wellington) and motivational speaker.
When I first started in triathlon, there were no coaches but I did manage to find a triathlon book, Dave Scott Triathlon Training, which I still have to this day. In fact, I managed to get it autographed by Dave when we met for the first time at the Eilat triathlon in 1989.
Dave is a forthright character and isn’t afraid to voice his opinion. When you listen to this conversation you’ll get real insight to one of the greatest Ironman triathletes ever, including:
- How depression sometimes meant Dave struggled to even start his sessions
- Following the low fat/high carb Pritikin diet and why Dave did a 180 and adopted a Keto diet
- Rinsing cottage cheese to get rid of the fat
- When you have been an Ironman world champion and you develop heart problems
- Dave Scott on strength training for triathletes
- Why Ironman have done a good job during the COVID19 pandemic
- PTO and why it’s a great opportunity for professional triathlon
If you would like to follow Dave you can find him on all of the social media channels listed below.
The best place to find him is his website https://davescottinc.com/ where you can sign up for his regular newsletter
Twitter https://twitter.com/davescott6x
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/davescott6x/
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/davescottinc/
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/davescott3/
Dave and I chatted about many topics and made references to other resources.
These are the books Dave has been inspired by
The Perfect Mile - The race to break the four minute mile
Thinking Fast & Slow - Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize
The 3 year swim club - The untold story of “sugar ditch” kids in Maui and their quest for Olympic glory
Road to Valour - Gino Bartali: Tour de France legend and WW2 hero
To find out more about Simon’s SWAT programme, please click HERE
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 [email protected]
Female Specific Nutrition * Simon Ward and Dina Griffin
Simon Ward, The High Performance Human Triathlon Podcast
12/02/20 • 91 min
Boulder isn’t just a great place for triathletes to hang out. These days it seems like a large number of my guests also hang out there including today’s guest, Dina Griffin.
Dina is a sports dietician who not only addresses needs related to disease and illness but also takes a proactive approach in optimizing health to prevent disease, deficiencies, and breakdowns via personalized sports nutrition coaching, consulting, and physiology testing. I have specifically invited her onto the show to chat about nutrition for female athletes.
I first met Dina, virtually of course, when she presented this topic to a group of TrainingPeaks coaches a few weeks back and I thought, why have we never had a guest on to speak about this? So here she is and it’s another great conversation as we discuss:
- Why nutrition education is an important first step to improving your health and performance
- Key differences to female physiology in Pre, peri, and post menopause
- The differences in nutritional approach during each phase
- How and what to adjust in your nutrition programme during the low and high hormone phases of your monthly cycle
- Some training alterations you might want to consider during the same phase
- Benefits of protein and why you should probably eat more
- Lift Heavy Stuff regardless of your age (TIP: The third time this topic has come up. If you haven’t got the message yet....)
- Gut health and why focussing on this in your 30’s will help during peri-menopause
- Supplements - should you take them and if so which ones
To find out more about Dina Griffin, please visit her website https://nutritionmechanic.com/
You can also find Dina on:
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/nutritionmechanic/
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/dina.howtongriffin
We covered several other subjects during the show and here are some of the links:
Recent podcast on Gut Health with Bella Lindeman
FitRWoman app - track your period and train smarter
WildAI - turn your menstrual cycle into an advantage
Feed Zone Portables A cookbook of on the go food for athletes
Feed Zone Cook Book Fast & favourable food for athletes
To find out more about Simon’s SWAT programme, please click HERE
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 [email protected]
PTO's Impact on Pro-Triathletes * Simon Ward with Jackson Laundry and Taylor Reid
Simon Ward, The High Performance Human Triathlon Podcast
11/25/20 • 63 min
Since COVID19 hit the world, triathletes have suffered just like everyone else. Limited opportunities to train and virtually no racing apart from virtual. The Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO) has been a big help to triathlon, distributing grants to help athletes survive and in recent months, bumping up the prize purse at selected races (£15k for Helvellyn and Outlaw X in the UK) for the pro athletes racing. On December 6 the PTO Challenge Daytona will air and this event will have the biggest prize purse ever offered for a professional triathlon race with £1,150,000. There will be an equal number of pro male and female starters and the prize pots are identical. In another first, the prize money will be distributed among all athletes with every starter guaranteed to take home a minimum of $2500.
In this week’s episode, I talk to 2 talented Canadian athletes who will be racing in Daytona.
Taylor Reid has five professional 70.3 victories (including three Ironman 70.3 victories) and has been on the podium fifteen times. After chasing the Olympic dream for 7 years, he had some success winning the U23 Canadian Champion in 2013. He then made the switch to long-course triathlon in 2014, focusing on the Ironman 70.3 events all around the world. The longer event, which required more endurance, suited his strengths. Alongside his triathlon career, Taylor is also a spokesperson for dyslexia, sharing his story with the world to help raise awareness about dyslexia.
Jackson Laundry is a two-time Ironman 70.3 champ (Raleigh 2018, Mont Tremblant 2019) and has eleven 70.3 podiums. He was also the winner and co-organizer of the 2020 Canadian pro tri championship, a race that he and Taylor decided to host in order to give the community something to look forward to and give fellow athletes a high level race. It was a huge success, bringing many of the top Canadian athletes together, with their own private TV crew and CBC coverage. Taylor is also the co-host of "The Real Triathlon Podcast” and has had a successful virtual race season in 2020, taking 4th place at the 2020 Zwift pro tri series, 2nd place at Ironman VR14, and winning 1 stage of the Super League e-series.
Listen in to the interesting conversation with these two enthusiastic, personable and professional triathletes trying to make their way in the world and giving back a little as they continue their journey. Hopefully you’ll appreciate this as well as we chat about:
- Life as a pro triathlete - living the dream or scraping a living
- The life of a professional triathlete during lockdown in Canada
- How COVID 19 has disrupted their training and racing plans
- PTO and the impact it’s having on professional triathlon
- An athlete turned race organizer, and getting a better appreciation of the work done by race promoters and volunteers
- Challenge Daytona
To find out more about Jackson:
Website - https://www.jacksonlaundrytri.com/
Instagram - @jacksonlaundrytri
To find out more about Taylor:
Website: - http://www.taylor-reid.com/
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIj6iRJupVYsVB06igYz9zQ?view_as=subscriber
Twitter/instagram: @TC_Reid
We also talked about:
"The Real Triathlon Podcast": hosted by Jackson and two fellow pro triathletes
You can find that here - https://therealtriathlonpodcast.podbean.com/
Podcast Instagram handle is @therealtripodcast
Here is the link to the race highlights video for the Canadian Pro Triathlon Championship.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k_Cek3u8Jfo&t=4s
Taylor talked about his work increasing awareness of dyslexia. You can find details here
Dyslexia:
@everydaydyslexiaheroesproject
https://www.dyslexiacanada.org/
To find out more about Simon’s SWAT programme, please click HERE
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 [email protected]
Developing a Performance Mindset * Simon Ward and David Tilbury Davis
Simon Ward, The High Performance Human Triathlon Podcast
11/18/20 • 104 min
In today’s show, another of my old coaching buddies is back to chat about what’s been happening in his coaching world during the last 6 months.
David Tilbury Davis is a triathlon coach who works with athletes who have a ”performance mindset”. Among the athletes he currently works with are Lionel Sanders, Kim Morrison, and Rasmus Svenningsson and we chat about each of them today.
I’ve known David for over 20 years during which time his journey has seen him progress from novice to one of the world’s prominent long-distance triathlon coaches via Spain, Texas, Seattle, and now Finland.
I love watching my friends develop on their own journeys and David is no different. It’s a real pleasure to welcome him back onto the show to share some of the knowledge and experience he’s gained in the last two decades. I just wish that this catch-up could have been over a beer or two at some race venue but that’ll have to wait for another time. For now, listen in as we chat about:
- The Lionel Sanders 1-hour Canadian record attempt
- Differences between riding a track bike and a TT bike (TIP: there are way more than you think)
- Training like a triathlete while aiming to break a cycling record
- Combining a cycling record attempt with setting a 5k running PB
- Rasmus Svenningsson solo sub-8 hour Ironman
- Giving athletes free rein to try something different
- David’s thoughts on the upcoming PTO Challenge Daytona Pro race
- Why polarised training for triathletes is not quite as simple as 80/20
To follow David on social media or find out a bit more about him or his athletes please use the following links
Website - Tilburydavis.com
Instagram - coachtilburs
Twitter - @tilburydavis
We covered a lot of ground in this conversation so here are the links to some of what we discussed:
Books
Dark Horse - Achieving success through the pursuit of fulfillment - Todd Rose
Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success- Steve Magness
Conscious Coaching The Art and Science of Building Buy in - Brett Bartholomew
Will It make the Boat Go faster - Ben Hunt-Davis
Lionel Sanders 1-hr record on YouTube
Some of Lionel’s training sessions for the 1-hour record
Lionel’s 5k PB attempts
And there’s more on this page HERE
David mentioned the performance profiling document he uses with new athletes. It’s based on this research paper:
Pelletier, L. G., Fortier, M. S., & Vallerand, R. J. (1995). Toward a new measure of intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, and motivation in sports: The Sport Motivation Scale (SMS).
We also discussed this paper with regard to polarised training for triathletes - The Polarization-Index: A Simple Calculation to Distinguish Polarized From Non-polarized Training Intensity Distributions
To find out more about Simon’s SWAT programme, please click HERE
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 [email protected]
I have some questions about polarised training * Simon Ward and Dr. Stephen Seiler part 2
Simon Ward, The High Performance Human Triathlon Podcast
09/09/20 • 57 min
Dr. Stephen Seiler is back and this week he is answering listeners questions including:
- A dumbed down recap of polarised training
- Enjoying your training and 4 other key benefits of polarised training
- How to use the Karvonen method (heart rate reserve) to find the right HR zones without testing in the lab
- How does strength training fit with polarised training?
- Time crunched athletes - Should I ignore polarised and just train hard all the time?
- How to gauge your effort without a HR monitor - understanding breathing patterns
- Should I use the polarised approach to training all year round?
- Does age affect the benefits of polarised training?
- You can follow Stephen Seiler on these social media channels
You can follow Stephen Seiler on these social media channels
YouTube - sportscientist
Twitter - StephenSeiler
Facebook - stephen.seiler
To find out more about Simon’s SWAT programme, please click HERE
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 [email protected]
Developing an Iron Mind * Simon Ward with Lucy Gossage, Helen Davis, and Helen Gorman
Simon Ward, The High Performance Human Triathlon Podcast
03/25/20 • 67 min
In this week’s podcast we have another hot topic - mental toughness. A few weeks ago, superstar Ironwoman Lucy Gossage launched a new 6 part mental skills programme with her Sports Psychologist, Helen Davis. I have known Lucy for many years and watched most of her victories, and I always assumed that racing at the front came completely natural to her. As you will hear in this conversation I was totally off the mark. Lucy is also an oncology doctor currently working at Nottingham City Hospital so is experiencing the Coronavirus situation on the front line. Whether you use mental skills for improving race performances or handling tough life situations, you are sure to find this podcast very informative. Please make sure you read the show notes for details of a discount code that you can use if you wish to sign up with her programme.
In today’s conversation Lucy, Helen Davis and special guest, Masters Swim World record holder, Helen Gorman chat about:
- Lucy’s current work in the NHS and her first hand experiences of the COVID19 situation
- How the “iron-mind” skills are helping Lucy in her workplace at this very moment
- Why my perceptions of how Lucy raced were totally wrong
- Finishing 2nd at Ironman New Zealand on just 2 weeks of running
- Helen Gorman explains how mental strength can help with your swim performance
- When COVID19 recedes, how to manage expectations when you finally get back to racing
To find out more about the Iron-Mind course please click HERE
Helen Davis is a chartered psychologist and you can find out more about what she offers HERE
Lucy Gossage is a retired pro triathlete but you can still follow her on Twitter HERE
Follow the “Killer Shark” Helen Gorman HERE
To get a 5% discount when you sign up Iron-mind use this code —>> SWARD5
To find out more about Simon’s SWAT programme, please click HERE
To comment on this podcast, please visit Simon's Facebook page HERE
Visit Simon's website for more information about his coaching programmes
For any questions please email [email protected]
My coworkers think I'm a pro * Brock Gibbs
Simon Ward, The High Performance Human Triathlon Podcast
07/28/21 • 99 min
They say we all have a book in us. The trouble is that most of us never take the time to commit our thoughts or life experiences to paper. If you did it might turn out to be witty, insightful, life-changing. Today's guest Brock Gibbs did just that as he recounts his triathlon experiences in the book “My Co-workers Think I’m a Pro”. If you've been on your own triathlon journey then I’m sure you’ll find a lot of similarities with Brock’s story as we chat about:
- The frustration of injury
- Triathlon terminology, training kit, racing - from feeling like an outsider to becoming part of the in-crowd
- Why you hate the volunteers & spectators when you are having a bad day
- Training - why just doing more and harder probably isn’t the right way
- A pre-race nutrition like you’ve never heard before and why you shouldn’t drink in the bath
- Is it really necessary to deflate and then inflate tyres in T1?
- The pre-race port-a-loo lineup
- Mentoring newbies in T1?
- Brock's advice to other newbies doing their first triathlon?
If you would like to purchase a copy of Brock’s book, go to "My Co-workers think I’m a pro"
You can also purchase at Waterstones
Brock has a blog that he tries to add to every two weeks and this will be the basis for his next book www.thehacktriathlonblog.ca
You can also find Brock on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/gibbs.brock/
Brock also recommended a couple of his favourite books:
Draft Animals: Living The Pro Cycling Dream by Phil Gaimon and
Shadows On The Road: Life At The Heart Of The Peloton by Michael Barry.
We also chatted about...
The Julie Moss and the famous crawl at Ironman Hawaii - if you’ve never watched this it's inspiring and traumatic
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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 [email protected].
Riding the bike is the easy part (even though it's 3,500k and 55,000m climbing)! James Risley part 2
Simon Ward, The High Performance Human Triathlon Podcast
01/17/24 • 80 min
- Feet, hands, and butt might be more important than fitness on a multi day ride
- Processed carbs and a lack of protein
- It's like riding in the 90’s - no Garmin, just arrows to follow
- Why it’s important to choose roommates carefully
- Beware the post-event depression
- What next?
To contact Beth regarding Life Coaching, please email her at [email protected].
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 [email protected].
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 [email protected].
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Simon Ward, The High Performance Human Triathlon Podcast currently has 321 episodes available.
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The podcast is about Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Fitness and Podcasts.
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The episode title 'Exercise as Medicine * Simon Ward and Alan Couzens' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on Simon Ward, The High Performance Human Triathlon Podcast is 71 minutes.
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Episodes of Simon Ward, The High Performance Human Triathlon Podcast are typically released every 7 days.
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The first episode of Simon Ward, The High Performance Human Triathlon Podcast was released on Dec 19, 2018.
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