TrainingPeaks CoachCast

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  • TrainingPeaks CoachCast is an endurance training resource for athletes and coaches. If you're a triathlete, cyclist, runner, ultra-endurance athlete, or one of the many other sport types, subscribe to learn how to train for success. Host Dirk Friel talks with expert guests focused on the elements of endurance training and racing that lead to better performance, prolonged athlete lifestyle and more enjoyment of your sport. To learn more about how TrainingPeaks can help you achieve your training goals, visit us at trainingpeaks.com.
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Episodes
  • Season 6 Ep 12 — Gale Bernhardt — From Math Teacher to Olympic Coach

    Season 6 Ep 12 — Gale Bernhardt — From Math Teacher to Olympic Coach
    Oct 2 2024
    Gale Bernhardt's insights on effective coaching, balancing technology with human touch, setting long-term goals and tips for aspiring coaches. With over 35 years of coaching experience, Gale Bernhardt has guided Olympians and World Championship athletes and played pivotal roles as the USA Triathlon Olympic and Pan American Games Triathlon coach. She shares her incredible journey from a mechanical engineering background to becoming one of the most respected figures in endurance sports as a pioneering endurance coach. We explore her coaching philosophy, emphasizing the importance of continual learning across exercise science, pedagogy, and other key areas of understanding. Gale also provides invaluable advice for aspiring coaches. She highlights the significance of setting long-term goals, addressing knowledge gaps, and balancing science and the art of coaching. Gale and Dirk compare and contrast coaching occupations in the United States and European countries. Plus, she touches on the evolving role of AI in coaching and why the human touch remains irreplaceable. To learn how TrainingPeaks can help your endurance coaching, visit TrainingPeaks.com.
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    55 mins
  • Season 6 Ep 11 — Addressing RED-S and Optimizing Nutrition with Sports Dietitian Kylee Van Horn

    Season 6 Ep 11 — Addressing RED-S and Optimizing Nutrition with Sports Dietitian Kylee Van Horn
    Aug 28 2024
    Understand the essentials of athlete fueling, including RED-S and the importance of tailored nutrition plans, with sports dietician Kylee Van Horn. Kylee Van Horn, CEO of Fly Nutrition, specializes in helping athletes optimize their performance and manage eating disorders, including RED-S (relative energy deficiency in sport). She's also an ultrarunner and running coach based in Colorado, looking to simplify nutrition for athletes and steer them away from fad diets. You can also hear her on the podcast "Your Diet Sucks" with Zoë Rom. In this episode, Dirk and Kylee break down personalized nutrition plans, the role of micronutrient density, and the importance of understanding fuel requirements for different training sessions. Kylee shares helpful tips on fueling strategies for endurance and ultra-endurance athletes, addressing common fueling challenges, and the benefits of a team coaching approach to addressing nutrition and training goals. Plus, you'll hear her thoughts on addressing a few situations as an athlete, like overcoming nausea and the difficulty in recognizing eating disorders. To help structure your endurance sports journey, visit TrainingPeaks.com.
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    50 mins
  • Season 6 Ep 10 — HRV4Training's Marco Altini on the Most Important Aspects of HRV Data

    Season 6 Ep 10 — HRV4Training's Marco Altini on the Most Important Aspects of HRV Data
    Aug 7 2024
    Heart rate variability (HRV) is unique to each athlete. Learn how to effectively measure and use HRV data alongside subjective feedback to optimize your training and recovery. Our guest for episode 10 is Marco Altini, a scientist, app developer and expert in using data from wearable devices to optimize health and performance. Many will recognize his name from the app HRV4Training, which integrates with TrainingPeaks. Marco's background spans computer science, human movement and high-performance coaching. He's also an avid runner, having qualified for the Boston Marathon and competed in European ultramarathons. Our discussion digs into the details of HRV, an increasingly popular metric for endurance athletes. Marco breaks down what HRV actually measures, its history of use in scientific research, and how it serves as a marker of the body's response to various stressors — from training to travel to simple daily life. He also clears up some of the biggest misconceptions about HRV, like the idea that you can directly compare your HRV to someone else's or that a single HRV reading can predict if you're about to get sick or injured. Marco emphasizes the importance of context and tracking your individual trends over time to have a valid baseline to analyze your stress response. Perhaps most importantly, we cover how HRV data is best used as one piece of the puzzle in understanding your body so that you can have productive training sessions. To learn how TrainingPeaks can help your training, visit https://trainingpeaks.com/
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    57 mins
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