Episode 20 - Brad Cooper, Functional Mental Toughness
Release Date: 07/15/2019
Special Episode 15: JD Tremblay, EPIC Deca
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This is a great episode with ultra-endurance athlete JD Tremblay. He's relatively new to Ultra-Endurance Triathlon events and has decided to take on the EPIC Deca. The EPIC Deca is 10 Ironman Distance Races completed in 10 days on 6 different islands in Hawaii. You can follow along with JD on the EPIC Deca Facebook page or the website. They will have ways to track the 10 athletes competing. For this Epic Adventure JD is being sponsored by: Precision Hydration And Vélocité Concept Be sure to check them out. You can check out the swim video...
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Episode 28 Mikael Rosen, Open Water History and Technique
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An interview with Open Water Swedish National Coach Mikael Rosen. He is a long time swimmer and coach. He has competed and coached at the highest levels of the sport and recently wrote a book entitled, Open Water: History and Technique of Swimming. The book covers 100+ years of swimming history and goes into detail how the best in the sport compete and find success. Anyone interested in swimming should get this book.
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Special Episode 14: Lexie Kelly, GP Marathon Open Water Swimmer and Coach
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Great Coffee, Beer, Coaching and Dogs interview with GP Marathon Open Water Swimmer and Coach, Lexie Kelly. We talk about her background in swimming, the coaches who had the most impact on her coaching and racing career.
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Episode 27 - Don Swartz, The Quantum Leap
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This an interesting interview with swim coach Don Swartz. He gave a talk in the early 1980s at an ASCA conference titled, "Nonsense and the Beginner's Mind: Looking for a Quantum Leap." It was his challenge to the swim coaching community to look for a better way to train athletes. It is as relevant then as it is now. Enjoy.
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Episode 26 - James Fike, Fike Swim
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Great interview with the inventor of the Brick Kickboard, James Fike. We spend a good deal of the time talking about his post collegiate swimming career and how even after swimming at the University of Texas he has been able to hit his best times 17 years later. We also talk about the development of the Brick Kickboard and how he wants to grow Fike Swim going forward.
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Special Episode 13 - Erin Sosdian, FOTW Kona
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in this episode we talk with former NCAA Division I distance swimmer turned triathlete, Erin Sosdian. Erin is an athlete I have coached for 5 years and the first athlete I coached in swim/bike/run. We talk about the training that helped to qualify her for 70.3 Worlds and Kona and the process of mastering the skill of racing long distance triathlons.
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Episode 25 - Bruce Beall, Rowing Coach on Mindfulness
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Bruce Beall is a long time rowing coach and former US Olympic Rower. He started his coaching career on the East Coast in the 1970s. In the early 1980s, he teamed up with Jon Kabat-Zinn on the application of mindfulness on competitive rowers while Beall was the rowing coach at Harvard. In this episode we talk about that time and what he has learned over the years as coach and where mindfulness fits in.
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Special Episode 12 - Team Vernandra, El Cruce 2019
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Special episode 12 is with Team Veranadra. Vanessa, Dana, Fernanda and Sandra all came to me a couple years ago and said they wanted to compete in El Cruce - a 10k open water race in Mexico. This is an interview with Vanessa, Fernanda and Sandra about their training and the race. It's a fun time with great people who make up Magnolia Masters.
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Episode 24 - Alex Coates, Overtraining Researcher
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Episode 24 is an interesting interview with a Alex Coates who is a former professional triathlete and currently working on her PhD in Exercise Physiology with an emphasis on overtraining in athletes. We discuss some of the long held ideas in endurance training like Super Compensation on how there might be better ways to train. We also talk about some of the early signs of overtraining or really under recovering and what they might be.
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Special Episode 11 - Ginger, Lizzie and Alysha, Pro Camp 2020
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A couple short, compact interviews with a few of the professional triathletes in attendance at the Magnolia Masters Pro Camp. We talk about their careers, how and why they became a pro and what their goals are going forward.
info_outlineBrad Cooper is CEO of a Health and Wellness Company. He is an 11x Ironman Finisher having competed multiple times at the Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii and at 52 he is completing his PhD on Functional Mental Toughness.
In this episode we dive into what is Mental Toughness and is it possible to cultivate and access it at any time. Brad has done a lot of interesting work on this topic and is putting together a program so anyone can increase their mental toughness in a race or in their daily lives.